K12 Tech Talk

Episode 23 - Crazy Chromebook Stories

In this episode the guys share their craziest Chromebook damage stories, Josh updates one of his Erate 471s, Cory gives some insight into his phone system responses, and Josh tries to teach Chris and Cory new words...
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Episode 22 - Yes, we are recording.

Episode 22
In this episode we discuss the new second round of "COVID relief funding" for schools. We answer a listener's email about comparing new "Smartboards." We also answer Ryan's Random question of the week.
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Episode 21 - Josh Totally Screwed Up

Josh forgot to hit record, and realized it after recording 33min of award winning podcast material. What you will hear is our second try for the night, and no where near as good. We talk about the potential for new "CARES money," filing Erate 471's and what first steps you should take to lock down Windows workstations.
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Episode 20 - New Sponsor, Sonicwall Hack, a Contest, and Who Makes the Call...

In this episode we talk about how you may not need to use an Erate consultant, the new Sonicwall hack, we discuss who makes the decision to unblock/block websites, we talk about a tshirt contest, and we welcome a new sponsor.
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Episode 19 - Andy's Email, New Windows 0 Day, and Josh Mutes Cory

Episode 19 - We read an email from Andy and answer his questions about our virtual environments and our Chromebook rotations. Cory tells us about a new Windows 0 day vulnerability he read about this afternoon, and Chris carries on about Esports again.
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Episode 18 - Listener Supported

This episode is 100% requests from listeners! First, we deep dive into Gmail's compliance settings, then we debate Chromebooks vs iPads vs Windows devices vs BYOD. Cory also suffers a PC failure.
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Episode 17 - Listener Email, Firewalls, G Suite Setting, and Story Time

In this episode, we read a listener email and answer his question about what firewalls we use, we listen to Cory's story of bad luck and how his SAN went down this week, we walk Chris through changing G Suite settings real time, and quickly celebrate the Death of Flash.
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Episode 16 - Where's Cory? Esports, Erate, and VDI

Cory flaked on us at the last second today, so we recruited Jason to join us. He is at a district with 17,000 students and he talks about his really cool VDI setup as well as the struggles they have with virtual learning. We also discuss the new Erate deadlines that were announced 12/23/2020, and how Esports and CTF/CyberPatriot events give students another avenue to compete against their peers.  
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