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Time’s Up: Districts Prepare for Life After Windows Server 2003

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Frank Smith Learn from these tips and success stories on migrating from Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft pulls the plug on support.

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End of Support for Microsoft Server 2003 Puts Heat on K-12 Districts

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Microsoft's support for Windows Server 2003 ends this week, putting districts that have not upgraded to a newer system at risk of viruses and other derailments.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He expects to see media companies play a bigger role in snapping up promising edtech startups.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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And according to Palmer’s research, 21 of the 23 largest exits in the edtech industry have come from companies based outside of New York or the San Francisco Bay Area. It also gives the foundation a lens into the challenging realities of the edtech startup ecosystem. Source: New Markets Education Partners.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?

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Do You Make Your Learning Transparent to Others?

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Here are three recent examples from my life: Example One: During a workshop I was leading on Teaching with Multimedia/Digital Storytelling, I could not remember for the life of me how to export PowerPoint slides to.jpg files so they could be imported into Microsoft PhotoStory. (I I can never remember this because I use it infrequently.)

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

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In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!