I'm excited to present a session at the May 2024 BrainStorm Conference in Sandusky Ohio!  Details below: May 6, 2024 1:15 PM-2:15 PM Using SysCloud to Backup (and Red Flag Concerns) in your Google Workspace School Domain Has Google Workspace and Chromebooks evolved into a mission-critical aspect of your school program? Hear the story behind why the Oakfield-Alabama K-12 School District rolled out SysCloud to offer peace of mind cloud-based backups and a fantastic compliance monitoring dashboard with customized email alerts to keep busy IT folks and school administration abreast of concerns.  Even with other tools like GoGuardian in place, it’s essential that we can tailor our “red flag” alerts for violations, corrupted file attachments, unauthorized sharing of PII, and a whole host of turnkey policies that you can implement and customize. Learn why SysCloud is now considered “the Cadillac” when it comes to creation of such monitoring policies as compared to only using the Goo...

I'm excited to present two sessions at the November 2023 NYSCATE Conference this year!  Details below: No More Waiting for Account Creations: Digital on Day One with ClassLink Sunday November 19, 2023, 8:45am We’ve rolled out several software applications for our 1:1 Chromebook initiative that we believe are critical in order to become “Digital on Day One".  Our most important platform is ClassLink.  ClassLink is our single sign-on application.  With one login, students, teachers, and staff have one-click access into their web applications.  We put links to all of our digital textbooks, online assessments, and other instructional web applications into our ClassLink Launchpad.  We are able to assign apps to specific users, grade levels or groups.  Students, teachers, and staff may also add links to their own web apps.  We also use OneRoster, an open source IMS Global standard, to roster many of our textbooks and applications.  With OneRoster w...

I'm excited to present a session at the November 2023 BrainStorm Conference this year!  Details below: November 13, 2023 1:15 PM-2:15 PM Using ParentSquare to UNIFY Your Communications Picture this: It's 2020...and suddenly keeping parents in the loop has never been more important! Learn how our school district solved the dilemma of UNIFYING all our classroom, school-level, athletics and district communications down to just ONE source: ParentSquare! In this age of plentiful choices we need to ensure we are not overloading parents with too many places to keep track of everything. Join us as we discuss the top ParentSquare features we love and leverage on a daily basis, presented in a "David Letterman" countdown style. Best of all, ParentSquare syncs with your SIS, eliminating the need for opt-in codes, links, and nagging parents to join. View presentation slides HERE More information on using ParentSquare "Virtual Phone" HERE .

I'm honored to be a 2nd time presenter/attendee at the annual BrainStorm Ed Tech Conference for K-12 and Higher Ed Technology Personnel in Sandusky, Ohio.  See conference website here:   https://brainstormk20.com/sandusky Location : Kalahari Convention Center, 7000 Kalahari Dr, Sandusky, OH 44870 Date : Tuesday, May 9 2023, 9:45am Title : No More Waiting for Account Creations: Digital on Day One with ClassLink Description :  We’ve rolled out several software applications for our 1:1 Chromebook initiative that we believe are critical in order to become “Digital on Day One".  Our most important platform is ClassLink.  ClassLink is our single sign-on application.  With one login, students, teachers, and staff have one-click access into their web applications.  We put links to all of our digital textbooks, online assessments, and other instructional web applications into our ClassLink Launchpad.  We are able to assign apps to specific u...

I'm excited to announce I've been accepted to present a ClassLink session at the 2022 NYSCATE Conference in Rochester, NY.  See the conference website HERE . No More Waiting for Account Creations: Digital on Day One with ClassLink Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, Session 6, 11:15:00 AM- 12:15 PM, Hyatt, Regency C (Can't see the embedded YouTube video above?  View it on YouTube .) Description: We believe it is critical to be “Digital on Day One" - year over year. Our most crucial platform is ClassLink. ClassLink is our single sign-on application. With one login, students, teachers, and staff have one-click access to their web applications. We put links to our digital textbooks, online assessments, and other instructional web applications into our ClassLink Launchpad. We can assign apps to specific users, grade levels, or groups. Students, teachers, and staff may also add links to their web apps. We also use ClassLink and OneRoster to roster our textbooks and applications. Acces...

I'm honored to be a 1st time presenter/attendee at the annual BrainStorm Ed Tech Conference for K-12 and Higher Ed Technology Personnel in Sandusky, Ohio.  See conference website here:   https://brainstormk20.com/sandusky Location : Kalahari Convention Center, 7000 Kalahari Dr, Sandusky, OH 44870 Date : Monday, May 2 2022, 2:30pm Title : No More Waiting for Account Creations: Digital on Day One with ClassLink Description :  We’ve rolled out several software applications for our 1:1 Chromebook initiative that we believe are critical in order to become “Digital on Day One".  Our most important platform is ClassLink.  ClassLink is our single sign-on application.  With one login, students, teachers, and staff have one-click access into their web applications.  We put links to all of our digital textbooks, online assessments, and other instructional web applications into our ClassLink Launchpad.  We are able to assign apps to specific u...

I'm happy to announce I've been accepted to present three sessions at the 2021 NYSCATE Conference in Rochester, NY.  See the conference website here .