ATLIS day 1Good workshopsInnovation is not learning or using technologyGrand Rapids might be nice - no idea but the weather sucksChatGPTWe are all aware that the Terms of Service require parental consent of children between the ages of 13-18 - what happens when a fair amount of people say no?Lawsuits on deck concerning intellectual property, enterp…

Skype and the new Bing AIAI update from Tony - round one will fail because it is annoying Tony’s prediction - AI is great but will fail because it is annoyingChatGPT terms of service - the same as they were - and impossible to use legally if you are a Google Workspace Schoolhttps://isn.education/articles/open/chatgpt-and-ai-18-and-not-ready-yet/ Go…

Copyright case for a comic book that used AI to generate the arthttps://www.theverge.com/2023/2/22/23611278/midjourney-ai-copyright-office-kristina-kashtanovaLiken the images to photographsTony is on a Committee Headphones

Tony has a webinar coming upCIA Triad - https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/cia-triad ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailabilityI love Apple TouchScreen MacMinis (What?)https://www.touch-base.com/What you need to make the true nextgen experience with this gen’s stuff https://www.touchboards.com/ Why are there so many edtech scammers on Linke…

Teachers Pay Teachers vs. students paying for their workQuestions and questionsChatGPT isn’t plagiarism (who cares it still sucks)Automate processesAdd it as an interviewThink through the argumentsCan’t turn off the lightshttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611 Software like this fail open bec…

Tony and Patrick are back at it and this time they are talking about Chat GPT the new AI that seems to have people excited and scared all at the same time.

New Baby!!What are you drinking?WaterAndy Gator - Abita - https://abita.com/brews/andygator# Gray/Grey Box Testing - Tony’s going to smoke Patrick’s networkhttps://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/what-are-black-box-grey-box-and-white-box-penetration-testing/ 2-Factor / MultiFactor - time to annoy people, Blackbaud is requiring this for RE and …

Final month of schoolWhat are you drinking?Founders All Day Vacay - https://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/all-day-vacay/ Coors Banquet - https://www.coors.com/ Teacher shortage or something else?Shortage is a bad label - teachers haven’t gone anywhereTransitioning to other careersPoor working conditionsTony and Patrick’s ideasAtlas Rubicon - Everyon…

How’s the weather?What am I drinking?Bell’s Oberon Ale - https://bellsbeer.com/beers/oberon-ale/Samuel Adams Summer Ale - https://www.samueladams.com/our-beers/limited-release/american-wheat-ale/summer-ale Chrome OS Flexhttps://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/https://itbabble.com/2022/04/20/chrome-os-flex/ Samsung Chromebooks - rant by Patr…

The Masters golf tournamentCISSP Pin - https://isc2education.org/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/i/cissp_lapel_pin.jpg What am I drinking?https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/1554/Iced teaTony’s BYOD requirements and laptop purchasing plan for 2022-2023Is ed-tech really dead? Is Tony wrong?Digital Fetus - https://i…

Your eyes do not deceive you fellow listener. That is indeed a picture of famed action star Michael Dudikoff. Listen on to see why he is our artwork and check out the show notes below. Photo attribution: https://www.flickr.com/people/25030443@N03 by Rob DiCaterino Coach K - what’s going to happen to Duke? What am I drinking? Elysian Space Dust - ht…

What am I drinking?Tony’s Spring Audit- Hardware, Accounts (G-Suite, SIS, JumpCloud and IXL)Audit hardware (anything in asset inventory)Check the classrooms for display systemsDon’t mess with facilities and maintenance people during summer - do you inventory during the springData audit - Checking the backupArchive on Bluray DVDMissing Items Try not…

What am I drinking?Bell’s Bright White - http://www.bellsbeer.com/beer/seasonal/bright-white-ale Liquid Death - Water. Just water.Oregon Trail game on Archive.orghttps://itbabble.com/2022/02/23/oregon-trail/https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990 Huggy Wuggy? This is stupidhttps://www.parents.com/news/what-parents-need-to-know-about…

Benedict CumberbatchCover art original photo by Gage Skidmore - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/28570188272 https://www.wattpad.com/622757598-the-many-names-of-benedict-cumberbatchWhat am I drinking?Tin Roof Blonde - https://www.tinroofbeer.com/brew/blond-ale/ Big Lug Goat Ranch - https://sahmsalehouse.com/nora/ Google Flex OS (Wasn’t th…

Snow everywhereSnowdays vs eLearning daysWinter Olympics - Are you watching? Is anyone?Anal swabs for Covid 19Government approved hotelsWhat am I drinking?https://www.metazoabrewing.com/ - Crocodilian American Pale AleKirkland Sparkling Water - So AdultGoogle Forms - Choice Removal and Choice Eliminator 2 Add-onshttps://wp.me/pYzzW-29wReally popula…

Bengals in the Super Bowl!What am I drinking?Bells Kalamzoo Stout - http://www.bellsbeer.com/beer/year-round/bells-kalamazoo-stout Sapporo Steel Can Tall Boy - https://sapporobeer.com/our-beers/sapporo-premium-beer/ Revising ChatterboxVideo coming soonNot as bad as first timeStill don’t recommend itWeekly CISSP- Mandatory Vacationshttps://www.isc2.…

What am I drinking?Great Lakes - Conway’s Irish Ale - https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/conways-irish-ale Samuel Adams - Cold Snap White Ale - https://www.samueladams.com/our-beers/limited-release/white-ale/cold-snap Legacy Technology - could be costing you a fortune. Tony’ story about a lost telephone line https://c.tenor.com/H56jRVjI7bkAAAAd/airp…

What am I drinking?https://www.lindemans.be/en_US/beer/Framboise Belgium Beer Cafe Dubai - https://belgianbeercafejumeirah.com/ Modelo - https://www.modelousa.com/en-US/product/especial Comfy headphones & Omar’s FJ Cruiser Avid - https://avidproducts.com/product-solutions/learning/JLab - https://www.jlab.com/collections/on-ear-headphones/products/n…

200!Welcome back Omar!!What’s been going on with you and Dubai?Do you have long Covid?Patrick’s new recording set upShure MV7 - https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7 Rode PSA1 - https://www.rode.com/accessories/stands/psa1Y2K22 & Microsoft Exchange Servers - uh-ohhttps://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-working-to-fix-microsoft-exchange…

One week till Winter vacationPlans?What am I drinking?Shiner Holiday Cheer - https://shiner.com/beer/holiday-cheer Ghost River Gold - https://www.ghostriverbrewing.com/beer-overview Google Workspace & Microsoft Office 365 in schools Google - Free version stripped down Microsoft Office 365 - Need to buy a license for more features (Intune) Salesforc…

What’s on TV? What am I drinking?Kirin Ichiban - http://www.kirinichiban.com/ Laptop recommendations - Don’t completely trust a bloghttps://itbabble.com/2021/12/03/laptop-recommendations-check-with-your-school-not-a-blog/Notion.so - A reviewhttps://itbabble.com/2021/12/01/notion-so-a-review/Finding a STEM and Robotics teacherWhere do these people h…

How was Thanksgiving?What are you drinking?Spaten Premium LagerSTEM - needs a non-traditional spaceSpace that holds 40 studentsNatural supervisionPlentiful electricityFab truck - https://www.fablabs.io/labs/fablabtruckFavorite winter movies to show students?Tony’s news - It’s Time to Stop Telling Children to Google it.https://edco-isn-staging.edcow…

Happy early ThanksgivingWhat am I drinking?Great Lakes Eliot NessAdding a desktophttps://itbabble.com/2021/11/10/life-with-a-desktop/ Everyone made fun of the Surface SESTEM environments for schools - ideas on how to set it up correctlyAsk IT BabbleThis Olympic Scoring Form article is AMAZING. Seriously. REALLY well done. I've stumbled upon this be…

Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/WTaR4BZTqUHPXrZG6 Solar MinimumHECC Conference What are you drinking? Shiner BockLeft Hand S’mores Milk StoutHardware as a Service - financial planning ideasWindows Surface SEhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-laptop-se Ask IT BabbleWe have students who bring in appropriate equipment to school.…

IT Babble how we make the show - for new listenersDaylight Savings Time (Tony forgot)What are we drinking?New Classrooms Update - Water Finds its LevelMetaverse hype = Conference Pump - Be carefulhttp://itbabble.com/2021/11/03/soul-machine-a-demo/ How can you measure it?Ask IT Babblehttps://itbabble.com/ask-it-babble/ Q1: My school is considering a…

Happy HalloweenWhat am I drinking?Facebook - Meta - MetaverseShould we care?Will educators get suckered?https://secondlife.com/ Facebook Files - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039New classrooms, how's it going for Tony? Dual Protocol Transmission (DPT 4.0) BenQ Instashow - https://www.benq.com/en-us/business/wireless-…

Apple event takeawayMacBook Pro starting at $2000Bitpaper.io - https://bitpaper.io/ Better than a lot of .io sitesGood for math homeworkTouchscreenReview on WednesdayStudent printing at Tony’s schoolUnsustainable “print party”Tony has been drinking AndyGator - https://abita.com/brews/andygator#AI in the curriculum https://www.ibm.com/watsonReading …

Tony and Patrick catch upNew sounds for top of the- show - What's Google Forms + Form Ranger detailed postApple’s new eventWhat would you like to see?Is Tony done with Chromebooks? $33.99 - Really? Video editing STEM/MakerWindows 10 - Could be the best option but it is still the most annoying operating system on the marketDystopian School Follow Up…

Elysian Night Owl & Liquid Death Sparkling Water - Approved by IT Babble TV Review - Squid Game on Netflix Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxAJKy0ii4 Thoughts? Google Forms for event sign up Form Ranger - https://cloudlab.newvisions.org/form-ranger Plan the form Don’t let people type their choices Google Data Studio - https://datastudio.…

What have we been up to since our last episode (March 2021) Streaming live events - Patrick’s new setup https://itbabble.com/2021/06/28/streaming-events-an-ongoing-experiment/ https://itbabble.com/2021/07/14/streaming-events-2-update/ https://itbabble.com/2021/09/06/streaming-events-3-test/ Dystopian School (A better way to run a school) Definition…

We’re back! 1) Tony has it been a month!!!??? 2) Amplified IT purchased by CDW 3) Streamlined Classroom AV 4) Tony - No more SAT/ACT - GPAs- No Grades - and What you need to do if you want to do this… 5) Amazon QuickSight - https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/ 6) Safe search, firewall, etc. a) OnCampus b) Cisco Umbrella c) DNS Restrictions d) GoGuard…

1) Snow day and football 2) How can we be independent from big tech companies? a) Independent hosting services GoDaddy, Blue Host 3) Teachers teaching from home a) What they wanted vs what they got 4) Blue Yeti Microphone 5) YouTube Playlist a) Great for collecting, sharing and collaborating on resources b) https://itbabble.com/2021/01/11/youtube-h…

1) Happy holidays a) Tony’s advice - Unplug from the media/social networks b) Read eBooks on your smartphone 2) Covid updates a) Back to SCHOOL in Indy! 3) Adios Adobe Flash by Patrick Cauley a) https://itbabble.com/2020/12/07/adios-adobe-flash/ b) Patrick’s trip into Flash gaming 3) Apple’s new MacBooks with the M1 a) Why shouldn’t schools go this…

1) Patrick’s new phone (coming soon) 2) Distance yourself from tech and social media for your own health 3) Wordpress.com block editor - Rant 4) Chromebook camera failures a) Chrome OS update b) Doesn’t affect all Chromebooks c) Alt + V Zoom work around 5) Record All Online Meetings with Apple OSX by Tony DePrato a) https://itbabble.com/2020/11/11/…

Patrick interviews Tony DePrato about his HIFLEX set up in the classroom. HIFLEX is a term that refers to students who are in the classroom and also at home and both are learning synchronously. Tony utilizes iPads and a few other items and tools to bring this affordable solution to life.

1) Back at school in a COVID world a) Tony’s motto: “You have to think of every student as a virtual student that occasionally comes to school and if you do that your planning will fit every scenario.” b) GoGuardian: https://www.goguardian.com c) Cisco Umbrella: https://security.umbrella.com 2) Why your online streaming is bad and mine is good a) i…

Happy Easter/Spring Break 1) Zoom a) Zoombombing b) Zoom and privacy c) Zoom alternative -Microsoft Teams -Google Meet -Skype d) Recommendations e) Zoom Basic (non-compliance) vs. f) Zoom K-12 (FERPA, COPPA, HIPPA compliant) 2) Cybersecurity Part 5 - Where Did Your Resources a) https://itbabble.com/2020/04/12/cybersecurity-part-5-where-did-you-put-…

No school! 1) Distance Learning Plan a) So much to talk about here b) Be asynchronous c) Front load the content d) Elementary and Early Childhood - e) Choice boards 2) How is Microsoft Teams? a) What do we think doesn’t work? 3) Attendance? 4) Great resource from Mark Stone and Elvin Aliyev in Azerbaijan a) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-mRNF…

1) Online learning, biggest issue I am seeing: controlling students vs lesson prep a) Behavior problems online are not tech problems b) Be realistic - it cannot be business as usual c) Daily touchpoints for teachers and administration d) How often do students need to be online with the teacher? 2) Chinese students try but fail… https://technode.com…

1) Tony’s post: Flipped without permission a) https://itbabble.com/2020/02/05/flipped-without-permission-some-advice-about-teaching-online-an-itbabble-no-frills-video/ b) Basic rules c) Behavior d) Platform options e) Learning Management System f) Record content g) Microsoft Teams/Slack (middle school-high school) h) Avoid the need for a VPN i) Dai…

1) RIP Kobe Bryant 2) Parent Portals a) How to get parents to use them more b) Only use one portal - avoid fragmentation c) Consistency with the portal for teachers and faculty d) Survey coming soon (next few months) 3) Tony wants to rant on vendors: Managebac 4) Microsoft’s new Edge browser a) Based on Chromium b) Microsoft Chromebook? Edgebook? c…

Happy New Year - Resolutions? 1) TDK12 - Practical advice for expats a) Tdk12.net 2)Tony’s Cyber Security Series a) Don’t spend $10,000 b) Train your staff first c) Certification training CISA, COSN (join this organization), FEMA, Homeland Security 3) Barco WePresent review a) Don’t trust vendors b) Viewsonice Viewboard - https://www.viewsonic.com/…

1) Tony’s Fired Up about CYBERSECURITY PANIC 2) Connecting your computer wirelessly to a display a) Barco ClickShare - https://www.barco.com/en/clickshare b) Mersive Solstice - https://www.mersive.com/products/solstice/ c) Crestron AirMedia2 - https://www.crestron.com/Products/Featured- d) Solutions/Airmedia e) Airtame - https://airtame.com/ f) App…

1) World Series Predictions? 2) Should or can schools give email to people who do not work (or have worked) or are associated with the school a) Uses email for personal legal matters b) No expectation of privacy c) Email address is for school related purposes d) Representing the school e) Social media concerns f) "Limited expectation of privacy" 3)…

1) Google Daydream is winding down a) https://www.androidauthority.com/google-daydream-1041548/ b) https://killedbygoogle.com c) https://www.oculus.com/medium/ 2) Swimming in the Data Lake by Tony DePrato a) https://itbabble.com/2019/10/12/swimming-in-the-data-lake/ 3) SideCar - Full Test...with Apple TV a) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380 …

1) PSA: Google Drive and Pirated Movies by Patrick Cauley a) https://itbabble.com/2019/09/23/psa-google-drive-and-pirated-movies/ b) Digital Millennium Copyright Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act 2) Computer Science Empathy by Tony DePrato a) https://itbabble.com/2019/09/18/computer-science-empathy/ b) Great advic…

1) Patrick’s new mouse - Logitech MX Ergo a)https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/mx-ergo-wireless-trackball-mouse 2) What's a Student Information System (SIS)? And why you should care a) One Roster - http://www.imsglobal.org/activity/onerosterlis 3) People still teaching flash and a mention about CAD - Tinker Cad , SketchUp Pro a) Adobe Animate -…

1) Airlines banning certain MacBook Pros a) https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/29/macbook-pro-some-airline-restrictions/ 2) Google getting serious about Enterprise a) https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20832925/google-chromebook-enterprise-dell-laptops-microsoft-windows-challenge-businesses b)Chrome OS not going anywhere! 3) Amazon Web Services 4) O…

1) Andrew Luck retiring 2) Advisories/Homeroom advice a) Advisory/Homeroom challenge/mystery b) Keep it light and fun and don’t force participation 3) Presenting a slideshow? Keep it brief by Patrick Cauley a) https://itbabble.com/2019/08/12/presenting-a-slideshow-keep-it-brief/ b) Presentation advice c) iMovie d)Prezi e) Keynote, PowerPoint (SkyDr…

1) Back to School! 2) Goals for the year 3) A Positive Start Matters by Tony Departo a) https://itbabble.com/2019/08/05/a-positive-start-matters/ 4)PSA a) PSA Flash is dying by Patrick Cauley https://itbabble.com/2019/08/10/psa-flash-is-dying/ https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/ b) Microsoft Office will die in 2025 …