Category: Technology Planning

Key Performance Indicators and IT

169: Key Performance Indicators and School IT | RSS.com Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measurable values that help organizations track and assess their progress toward achieving specific business objectives. They provide a framework and structure for monitoring performance, making informed decisions, and driving improvements. Information technology leaders who work in schools are well-served to have key performance indicators identified. These are goals that are specific Read More

A Story About Technology Leaders in School

161: A Story About School IT Leaders  I once coached a technology coordinator who was fond of saying, “I built what they asked for, it they asked for the wrong thing, that is not my problem.” He used it whenever the educators decided the system they wanted wasn’t exactly what they wanted and they asked him to Read More

BYOD and School Networks

165: BYOD and School Networks | RSS.com To minimize the expense of one-to-one initiatives, some schools choose to participate in bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives. This finds schools encouraging students to bring devices they own to school, connecting them to an SSID, and using them for their schoolwork. This can pose several difficulties for IT professionals; security being the most important. Others raise concern about equity as individuals may not be Read More

Comfort Zone Technology

163: Comfort Zone Technology | RSS.com One of the challenges of being a school technology leader (and probably in other fields as well, but my area of greatest expertise is in education) is what I (and probably others) call “Comfort Zone Technology.” Here is the general situation: A new leader is hired into whatever is Read More

Supporting Education in Rural Schools With Open Source Technology

157: Supporting Education in Rural Schools With Open Source Technology I’m messing around with rehashing my old writing with AI… here is an example from a chapter I wrote several years ago. In the chapter, I described several projects in which we supported education in rural areas using open source technology. Rural educators and school Read More

Open Source Technology

164: Open Source Technology | RSS.com I’m messing around with rehashing my old writing with AI… here is an example from a chapter I wrote several years ago Open-source technology is defined by its dimensions of transparency and freedom. This type of software is produced by a growing community and has begun to compete with Read More

AWS: Well-Architecured Framwork

139: AWS Well-Architectured Framework Far from being a purely technical document, AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices and guiding principles, born from years of AWS’s experience with its millions of customers. For the Cloud Practitioner exam, you need to understand what it is, why it matters, and how the six core pillars Read More

Planning Versus Design

These two terms are often used interchangeably, but they describe very different activities. In the world of education, technology, and creative production, the terms planning and designing often intermingle—but they serve distinct purposes and require different mindsets. Whether you’re developing a course module, building a website, or crafting a podcast series, understanding the difference between Read More

Cloud Computing

A post for my students preparing for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam 129: Cloud Computing Learning about cloud computing can feel like learning a new language. You’re bombarded with acronyms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, VPC, EC2… what?!), abstract concepts, and a whole new way of thinking about technology. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But here’s the Read More