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Podcast #2: John Umekubo, St. Matthew’s Parish School, California

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John Umekubo has been the Technology Director at St. Matthew’s Parish School for more than a decade. He is a leader in maker space universe as well as in the implementation of 1:1 programs in the greater Los Angeles area.
During our conversation we touch on many topics such as; what it takes to continue to innovate in a school where great things are already happening; his approach to technology integration in the classroom; reaching out to the parent community; how to prepare faculty for what’s ahead and his passion for making.
Resources shared during the conversation:
creatorsstudio.org

ipadbootcampforstudents.com

ipadbootcampforteachers.com
ipadbootcampforparents.com
lucasschollars.org
You can find him on twitter: @jumekubo
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Podcast #2: John Umekubo, Tech Dir St. Matthew’s Parish School, California

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John Umekubo has been the Technology Director at St. Matthew’s Parish School for more than a decade. He is a leader in maker space universe as well as in the implementation of 1:1 programs in the greater Los Angeles area.
During our conversation we touch on many topics such as; what it takes to continue to innovate in a school where great things are already happening; his approach to technology integration in the classroom; reaching out to the parent community; how to prepare faculty for what’s ahead and his passion for making.
Resources shared during the conversation:
creatorsstudio.org

ipadbootcampforstudents.com

ipadbootcampforteachers.com
ipadbootcampforparents.com
lucasschollars.org
You can find him on twitter: @jumekubo
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(Very) Hopeful about this all-in-one imaging and deployment solution

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Dell_KACEToday I took delivery of a Dell KACE 2100 appliance. For those who are unfamiliar with this appliance, its main purpose is to image and maintain a constant watch over your network devices’ updates, patches and programs. This unit will allow us to image both Windows and Mac machines over the network, and it will allow us to deploy individual or group updates and programs without needing to touch the end-user machine.

In past years I have used all sorts of imaging and updating systems to some degree of consistency and success. I’m talking about Ghost, DeployStudio, SmartDeploy, and even Microsoft’s RIS and Deployment Services. If I take into account all the time invested in getting the various systems to work correctly and then testing and making sure end-user computers were okay, it took a lot of money to get things working right. Since I am at a new school with a mixed platform I wanted to forgo the testing, setting up, stress, additional coffee money and decided to start shopping around for an all-in-one solution.

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Podcast Episode 1 – Taking the Leap!

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RBaldizon Podcast Episode 1

There you go! Finally!

For a very very long time I’ve been throwing around the idea in my head of creating a podcast instead of typing away all the time. Except, it’s a bit more complicated than I thought, at least to start.

So here is the first episode in which I go solo. Next week’s episode will be an interview with a fellow IT Director at another independent school here in the CA area.

Please, send me questions, situations, ideas and anything you can think of that I can include for this podcasting venture to be worthwhile for people to listen to. I’m barely getting started, so hang with me.