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- Sudoku Speed Challenge Champion Crowned At ISTE 2010 posted Jul 12, 2010
- Are You A Believer? posted Jun 01, 2010
- School Paging Systems and Emergency Communications posted Apr 29, 2010
- Are Your Students Hearing And Being Heard? posted Mar 17, 2010
- Ken Royal Interviews Calypso at eTech Ohio posted Feb 24, 2010
Unite and Conquer. Converged School Communications Has Arrived.
The notion of convergence just sounds like a good idea. Combine previously disconnected pieces and parts into a single, integrated solution to deliver real world financial and operational benefits. What could be better? Convergence implies efficiency. And when real convergence happens, there’s a tendency to stand back and wonder why it hadn’t happened sooner. Of course, the answer usually has to do with having just the right conditions at just…
Read MoreTexas not just big, also very fast! Top 10 times for Sudoku Speed Challenge at TCEA 2010.
Thanks to all who participated in Calypso's Sudoku Speed Challenge at TCEA 2010. We had a lot of great times posted. Here's the 10 best times. For the record, I'm still working on the puzzle. :( Look for a post-card in the mail soon with an invitation to sign up for a free online sudoku puzzle for an entire year…
Read MoreCalypso Sudoku Speed Challenge Top 10 from FETC 2010
Thanks to all who participated in the Calypso Sudoku Speed Challenge at FETC 2010. We had a lot of great times posted. Here's the 10 best times. For the record, I'm still working on the puzzle. :( Look for a post-card in the mail soon with an invitation to sign up for a free online sudoku puzzle for an entire year from Calypso Systems.
Winner: Heather Thomson, from Reedy…
Read MoreCan Anyone Out There Hear Me?
Throughout my adult life I’ve heard others talk with enthusiasm about their good fortune at having stumbled across “low hanging fruit”. A metaphor (or is it a simile) almost always used in a business context, I’ve listened with envy and a bit of skepticism to stories of cash and profits effortlessly realized by those lucky enough to find themselves in the right time, at the right place, with the right…
Read MoreSnowballs from T+L
I flew into Denver this morning, just ahead of a slow-moving snow storm, and made it over to NSBA's T+L conference by mid-morning. I'll admit to being a trade show junkie; I was looking forward to browsing the show floor, seeing what's new, eying the competition and running across some familiar faces. I was especially keen since T+L is one of the first ed tech shows of the "season", coming…
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