The TechUnwreck Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to The TechUnwreck Podcast where we sit down with educators, tech directors, and entrepreneurs to discuss some of the most pressing issues in educational technology.
Matt sits down with Eli Maloley, the CEO of Vivacity Tech, to make an exciting announcement!
What if we told you that there’s a powerful, inexpensive, and underutilized tool that can help educators reduce time spent grading work while increasing student engagement and performance in the classroom. What is it? Believe it or not, video games.
In our opinion, if you are an IT administrator in education, Brainstorm is the best TechEd conference you can attend. Brainstorm is one of, if not the only, conference in the United States dedicated solely to IT administrators in the education space. In Vicki's words: "It's the Geek Conference." It's a 3-day conference that focuses on security, network infrastructure, data management, device management, disaster recovery, and more.
Today we sit down with Mark Parlier, the owner and founder of Better My School, to talk about best practices for choosing learning platforms for your schools.
More on TechUnwreck.com: https://techunwreck.com/blog/choosing-a-learning-platform
We're joined by Kevin McDaniel, the founder and president of IT Strategies Group, to talk about the the importance for schools and organizations to have a complete data backup and recovery plan.
We sit down with Dan Jaegger, the Director of Enterprise Sales in North America for Kensington, to discuss the importance of emerging biometrics technologies that are helping schools and organizations better protect their data and information.
In this episode, we sit down with Brian Engle, the Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Innovation of Glenview School District 34 Illinois, to discuss the strategy and implementation of their successful 1-to-1 device program that's focused on providing students and staff with the tools they need to succeed.
In this episode, Matt breaks down the math behind insuring devices, and explains why insurance is almost always a bad deal for your school's fleet of devices.
In our very first episode, we sit down with Mark Carrara, the technology director at Amy Biehl High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss how to set up and manage a K-12 tech fund, how to work around state mandates about device donation, and the advantages of fostering a sense of ownership between students and their devices.