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	<description>Mostly pertinent thoughts about technology and education by school and district leaders.</description>
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		<title>Tech Equity:  It’s not just for kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most districts, we want our teachers to have access to powerful instructional technology.  And, like most districts, technology purchases for us have been made with a mix of limited district funds, some grants, and site categorical funds.  This has led to a situation where there are haves and have nots in terms of access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Axing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Landeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every couple of years I see the lush, green field across from the picturesque, cliff-hanging lighthouse in my town brought to the city council for development.  Activists turn out in force and, with passion and voice, quell the development of this unique field for a few years until another developer sees the chance to triumph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the &#8220;Mist-ery” Out of Cloud Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 16:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Hackner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the late 1980’s, while working on my Masters in Educational Computing degree at Pepperdine University, I came across this quotation: The next schism that will exist between those that have and those that do not have is access to information. That schism has since become known as the “digital divide.”  This quotation has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Issues for 1:1 Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/critical-issues-for-11-programs/1095.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to move to 1:1?  Learn from the experience of this Arkansas district. Educators who promote the use of technology to improve learning almost always have visions of students engaged in exciting projects and solving challenging problems by collaborating and researching via the Internet. We in the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Public Schools have definitely had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctioned Snooping</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/sanctioned-snooping/719.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/sanctioned-snooping/719.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Brooks-Young</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your district provide cell phones to employees?  A ruling by the U.S. Supreme on June 17, 2010 may impact you.  The court agreed unanimously that governmental agencies may access and read an employee’s text messages under certain circumstances. The case that was brought to the Supreme Court involved a police officer in Ontario, California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Say No</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/dont-just-say-no/544.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Blackney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should we allow students to bring electronic files to school?  Every district faces this question.  What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s an issue that does not warrant a simple yes or no answer because it pits two foundational goals against one another. On one hand, we are educational institutions.  Our base purpose is to foster our students&#8217; learning.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying afloat&#8212;and on course!</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/staying-afloatand-on-course/389.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/staying-afloatand-on-course/389.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Landeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so many cuts to education budgets, how can the cost of supporting the technology infrastructure be justified?]]></description>
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