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Linux is coming to Chromebooks!

Byryan May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

A ton of announcements came out of the Google I/O 2018 keynote yesterday, but the most exciting is that Linux is coming to Chromebooks!

I mentioned two years ago what a game changer Android apps will be for Chromebooks, and this is even bigger! Students will be able to edit videos, create and modify graphics with Gimp & Inkscape, or use Audacity on their Chromebooks.

Over in the Crostini subreddit users have been playing around with Linux for awhile, and here’s a demonstration of Inkscape running on a Pixelbook.

Unfortunately, support for Linux apps will be limited to the $999 Pixelbook for now.

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13 things to do before the first day of school #b2s

Byryan August 1, 2016August 14, 2016

Since it’s the first day of August, I figured it’s time to list 13 things to do before the first day of school. That doesn’t mean you need to do all of them, or even a majority of them, but hopefully there is one or two tips that you find beneficial. Do you have any…

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Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave

Byryan May 30, 2017May 31, 2017

If you are a student who is graduation or a staff member leaving a G Suite for Education district, Google offers two options for you to take your date with you. You can download your data or transfer the data to a personal account. Downloading your data Google has offered the ability to download your…

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Keep your accounts safe with two factor authentication

Byryan November 10, 2016November 16, 2016

Security today is a really big issue, and one of the best steps you can take to keep yourself secure is to use two factor authentication. What is two factor authentication? Currently you probably use a username and password to identify yourself to services. This is the concept of logging in using something you know….

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American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong — Quartz

Byryan May 27, 2016May 27, 2016

By promoting “pop computing” apps to kids in schools, we aren’t doing the hard thinking that defines what the subject of computing is today, and most importantly, what it can be in the future. A new approach to learning mass computing is needed to get 55 million students in 130,000 public schools to learn to…

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New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

Byryan July 28, 2016July 27, 2016

Media specialist Samantha Edwards wants noise in her library—and she hears it.Last fall, Edwards, the librarian at Fogelsville Elementary School in Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, opened a modest self-publishing center in the library outfitted with an iMac, a printer and a machine to bind books. She noticed how excited her students were to create…

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G Suite features, Google Photos, and CaptureCast – Top 3 posts for the week

Byryan October 23, 2016October 23, 2016

I’m switching it up this week, instead of posting the top 3 posts of the week indifferent to when the articles were posted, I’m switching to posting the top 3 posts of the week that were published that week. No more seeing Highlight rows in Google Sheets as the top post for the week. Four…

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