Innovations In Online Education
I am doing a lot of looking at different schools these days as a way of getting new ideas in education. I keep going back to online schools. They offer people a chance to learn online from home. I see there are opportunities for innovation in this area.
A good example is a growing category of online high schools. It’s actually cool because it’s a program that works well for the home school crowd. They can have their children learn at home and get a quality education. Pretty interesting indeed.
Remote Backups = Real Backups
I was talking with a friend the other day about backup options for his business. He is not into IT and hasn’t really been doing much backing up of his data. Every once in awhile he will back up his data, but he will back it up on a portable hard drive in the office. Bad Idea because that’s not a real backup. A real back up is one with a remote backup service.
If you need to do regular backups, you should seek out a remote backup service that can do everything automatically. There are a lot of them available so have fun.
Online Backups Can Save The Day
I used to have a lot of pictures on an external hard drive. I was pretty comfortable in knowing that I wouldn’t lose them. Yeah right. It died a brutal death and I lost a lot of family pictures. It’s not something I want to repeat again. I have since realized that I need to backup my photos and an online backup is the way to go. It’s convenient and easy.
I suggest that you look at the online backup alternatives out there before it’s too late.
Why No Receipt Printers In Taxis?
I am always interested in the things I see in different taxis around the world. One thing I haven’t seen yet is a receipt printer. Every place I go, it’s in the news to start requiring them, but the news always says in the future. It seems like taxis will never go ahead and voluntarily install them and they always seem lobby against them.
It’s easy to see why they don’t want them though…receipts might make them pay honest taxes on their taxi fares and keep their fares honest with customers.
Managing Your Teaching Information
We are firmly back in the realm of educational discussions. I want to make that clear to everyone. From this point forward, we are focused on how to make you become a better teacher. One way to become a better teacher is to use technology to improve the delivery or management of your teaching.
Flash drives are ubiquitious these days. Everyone seems to have one or two or several. I have a couple of them, but I have found that a better idea is to have several small micro sd cards and then swap them in and out of my card reader when I need them. They are so small, but they’ll hold an enormous amount of data, like movies, music, presentations and even lesson plans. They are all easy to access and use.