IT Babble's Podcast

1. One week till Winter vacation
   1. Plans?
2. What am I drinking?
   1. Shiner Holiday Cheer - https://shiner.com/beer/holiday-cheer 
   2. Ghost River Gold - https://www.ghostriverbrewing.com/beer-overview 
3. Google Workspace & Microsoft Office 365 in schools 
   1. Google - Free version stripped down 
   2. Microsoft Office 365 - Need to buy a license for more features (Intune) 
4. Salesforce SIS? Too good to be true?

1. What’s on TV?
2. What am I drinking?
   1. Kirin Ichiban - http://www.kirinichiban.com/ 
3. Laptop recommendations - Don’t completely trust a blog
   1. https://itbabble.com/2021/12/03/laptop-recommendations-check-with-your-school-not-a-blog/
4. Notion.so - A review
   1. https://itbabble.com/2021/12/01/notion-so-a-review/
5. Finding a STEM and Robotics teacher
   1. Where do these people hangout online (professionally)?
   2. 4 sections
      1. STEM
      2. Robotics
      3. Topic 3?
      4. Topic 4?
   3. Make it its own department

1. How was Thanksgiving?
2. What are you drinking?
   1. Spaten Premium Lager
3. STEM - needs a non-traditional space
   1. Space that holds 40 students
   2. Natural supervision
   3. Plentiful electricity
   4. Fab truck - https://www.fablabs.io/labs/fablabtruck
4. Favorite winter movies to show students?
5. Tony’s news - It’s Time to Stop Telling Children to Google it.

https://edco-isn-staging.edcowebsites.co.uk/articles/open/it-is-time-to-stop-telling-children-to-google-it/

1. Happy early Thanksgiving
2. What am I drinking?
   1. Great Lakes Eliot Ness
3. Adding a desktop
   1. https://itbabble.com/2021/11/10/life-with-a-desktop/ 
4. Everyone made fun of the Surface SE
5. STEM environments for schools - ideas on how to set it up correctly
6. Ask IT Babble
   1. This Olympic Scoring Form article is AMAZING. Seriously. REALLY well done. I've stumbled upon this because my wife and I host a gingerbread house contest and I think this may be the way for our judges to do the judging from their phones and not have to add and tally by hand. 

 Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/WTaR4BZTqUHPXrZG6

1. Solar Minimum
2. HECC Conference 
3. What are you drinking? 
   1. Shiner Bock
   2. Left Hand S’mores Milk Stout
4. Hardware as a Service - financial planning ideas
5. Windows Surface SE
   1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-laptop-se 
6. Ask IT Babble

• We have students who bring in appropriate equipment to school. The kit the school specifies is very clear, but that doesn't seem to matter. What can we do aside from purchasing the equipment?

• What is the best way to manage parents picking up children? I have been suggesting software. Thanks

1. IT Babble how we make the show - for new listeners
2. Daylight Savings Time (Tony forgot)
3. What are we drinking?
4. New Classrooms Update - Water Finds its Level
5. Metaverse hype = Conference Pump - Be careful
   1. http://itbabble.com/2021/11/03/soul-machine-a-demo/ 
   2. How can you measure it?
6. Ask IT Babble
   1. https://itbabble.com/ask-it-babble/ 

Q1: My school is considering an investment in VR. Do you think this is a good idea?
VR Solution: https://www.classvr.com/

AR Solution: https://www.cleverbooks.eu/

Q2: Do you think teachers would print less if they could spend more money on other things?

1. Happy Halloween
2. What am I drinking?
3. Facebook - Meta - Metaverse
   1. Should we care?
   2. Will educators get suckered?
      1. https://secondlife.com/ 
   3. Facebook Files - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
4. New classrooms, how's it going for Tony? Dual Protocol Transmission (DPT 4.0) 
   1. BenQ Instashow - https://www.benq.com/en-us/business/wireless-presentation/wdc10.html
   2. Patrick’s Review - https://itbabble.com/2020/01/31/streaming-in-the-classroom-benq-instashow/ 

1. Apple event takeaway
   1. MacBook Pro starting at $2000
2. Bitpaper.io - https://bitpaper.io/ 
   1. Better than a lot of .io sites
   2. Good for math homework
   3. Touchscreen
   4. Review on Wednesday
3. Student printing at Tony’s school
   1. Unsustainable “print party”
4. Tony has been drinking AndyGator - https://abita.com/brews/andygator#
5. AI in the curriculum 
   1. https://www.ibm.com/watson
   2. Reading recommendations
      1. Daemon by Daniel Suarez - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon 
6. Dell - some interesting things for parents if you know the right person
   1. Online store for your organization

1. Tony and Patrick catch up
2. New sounds for top of the- show - What's 
3. Google Forms + Form Ranger detailed post
4. Apple’s new event
   1. What would you like to see?
5. Is Tony done with Chromebooks? 
   $33.99 - Really? 
   Video editing 
   STEM/Maker
6. Windows 10 - Could be the best option but it is still the most annoying operating system on the market
7. Dystopian School Follow Up- We will only use Linux, but you can choose your flavor 

1. Elysian Night Owl & Liquid Death Sparkling Water - Approved by IT Babble 
2. TV Review - Squid Game on Netflix 
   1. Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxAJKy0ii4 
   2. Thoughts? 
3. Google Forms for event sign up 
   1. Form Ranger - https://cloudlab.newvisions.org/form-ranger 
   2. Plan the form 
   3. Don’t let people type their choices 
   4. Google Data Studio - https://datastudio.google.com/ 
4. Don’t use blockchain 
   1. Blockchain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain 
   2. HyperLedger - https://www.hyperledger.org/ 
5. Your cloud storage is ruining your life 
   1. Current folders 
   2. Archive folders