On April 8th, 2018 a coalition of 20 child advocacy, privacy and consumer groups filed a complaint asking the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Google-owned video site for alleged violations of children’s online privacy laws. The primary argument in the complaint appears to be that based on the content of YouTube, the service […]
G Suite for Education in Canada
I recently came across a post from Spark, a Radio-Canada program discussing an upcoming project that would be “looking into how Google is marketing itself to schools, affecting how classrooms work, impacting students’ privacy, and how it’s shaping the way children think about technology.” While I work in a U.S. district that uses Microsoft, Google and […]
Survey of CMS use on Virginia School District Websites
I recently had a need to get some hard data on the use of Content Management Systems . What I found was, what most anyone working in K12 would expect, a majority of schools are using 3rd parties services to host their sites. This trend of outsourcing the public websites parallels the trend in K12 […]
GSuite, O365 & eMail Protection in K12: A Large Scale DNS Record Analysis
Summary This post looks at a large scale dataset of school district DNS records (more than 10,000) and offers two take aways. First it provides some quantitative evidence on the use of cloud mail and collaboration tools in K12 (specifically of Google and Microsoft) and second, it looks at how districts are (or are not) […]
