Video Sharing

We have an Educational account at Google for Greenport School district. Email is going great. We are slowly getting students and teachers to use the documents feature. Another aspect of the package is Video Sharing. We've started using this part of the educational package.

Each educational account is given space to upload and share videos. Only teachers can upload and as administrator, I have to give them permission to upload. So far we have a dozen or so videos loaded. I'm trying hard to limit the videos to ones that are produced by Greenport Students and staff.

We dubbed the service "PorterTube" after the school mascot. Google lets you choose the URL you use, so http://portertube.gufsd.org will take you to our video sharing site. It is a closed site. You must have a Greenport school login to access the videos.

We'll see how it goes. I like the control that we have with our own video sharing site. Hopefully it will grow.

Finally an MS!

I completed my studies at Stony Brook and I have my MS degree. I think I'm one of the oldest graduates this year, but I'm glad I finally got to it. This blog was originally started when I began my studies. Now that my course work is completed, I think I'll keep the blog going.

I modified the blog's headline to reflect this change.

Cloud Computing Revolution in K-12

After spending so much time trying to bring Cloud computing to my school district, it is nice to get some positive feedback. District Administration magazine just published a front page article on how cloud computing is an education revolution! Yea, someone agrees with me.




You can click the picture above to go to the magazine's website, or click this link for the article

The Start of a Tech Revolution

The article says:

and many believe K12 education will completely embrace this technology structure in the coming years, revolutionizing how educators, students and administrators use software, hardware and the Internet. But many are unaware of the paradigm shift that they are participating in every day: it’s called “cloud computing.