Cybersecurity

Today’s more sophisticated visitor management systems allow K12 leaders to get a better handle on who’s trying to enter (or leave) their buildings—including tardy students. Lobby kiosks can perform automated and instant background checks, screen guests, and issue badges. This process can immediately identify registered sex offenders and alert staff to parental custody issues, among […]

Educators and school administrators want touchscreen panels and projectors that not only display content, but support audience participation during presentations. Multiple users can now mirror their device’s screen onto displays and stream presented content onto their phones, tablets or computers. Routers allow the transfer of content from a presentation system to multiple devices within a […]

As technology becomes more integrated into schools, more than half of education professionals say they have deployed apps at their school.  This is according to a recent national survey by Extreme Networks, a network software provider. Nearly 70 percent of respondents who use apps say they are used to share information.  Link to main story: An […]

Fertilizing “floating” plants with nitrogen-rich fish feces provides real-life chemistry, biology and engineering lessons to high school students working in Baltimore Polytechnic Institute’s aquaponic laboratory. Students manage four 200-gallon tanks of tilapia and yellow perch (which provide the fertilizer) as well as two 15-foot plant beds of fruits and vegetables. Because this required constant water […]

Towson University’s Educycle program teams college students with high school interns to clean, run diagnostics on and redistribute ‘old’ computers. Refurbished devices go to Towson’s student labs and to local Baltimore County, Harford County and Baltimore City school districts, who then install new software and operating systems. Educycle was launched in spring 2014 after Theresa […]

Whether it’s a small district with just a few schools or a mammoth operation that spends billions of dollars, one thing is certain: getting tech support in the right place at the right time is mission critical. This not only requires having trained staff to fix problems, but maintaining careful coordination and communication between the […]