Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Electronic signatures and student self-reporting
At Media-X Systems we try to do our best to be responsive to client needs and requests for enhancements to our products. In many cases, it’s been suggestions from users that have lead to our most popular new features. In December, we added several features and refined others in our most used and popular products.…
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Thank goodness it’s the Friday lunch…
It’s another Friday at Media-X and as has become tradition here, wonderful smells are wafting from the office kitchen. Most software companies don’t boast a fully functioning kitchen complete with an oven, stove and even a BBQ during the summer months. But if it’s one thing that all the employees here share in common with…
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Need to Learn What is Happening in Your School?
I am very excited about participating in this new Blog series from Media-X Systems. As a high school principal, I am always looking for effective strategies and efficient tools to assist me in my role as school leader. I have found both of those in eWalk from Media-X. I began using eWalk five years ago…
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eWalk saves a school district from disaster!
Superintendent Alistair McDent has a problem. His ABC school district has the lowest test scores in his county – in fact the lowest in his state. If he doesn’t turn things around quickly he will soon be replaced as Superintendent and assigned to lunch room monitor at the district’s toughest middle school. There he will…
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Media-X staff help make a needy family’s Christmas wonderful!
This year Santa will look a lot like Eric Marleau for one needy Ottawa family. On the morning of Christmas Eve, Eric, a Media-X senior developer, will drive his sleigh, er Chevrolet, to the home of a single mother and her two young daughters, 7 and 11 years old. With the help of Matt Hayward, another Media-X…
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Welcome to MX Blog
I am happy to welcome you to MX Blog – and hope you will join the conversation. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for our staff, associates and customers to share and discuss their ideas on education technology, mobile applications, web development, school safety and of course the world of Media-X Systems. Besides myself,…
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When it’s too late to improve
The classroom autopsy – it doesn’t have to happen. The term “autopsy” derives from the Ancient Greek autopsia, “to see for oneself” ( autos,”oneself” and opis, “eye”). The principal aim of an autopsy is to determine the cause of death, the state of health of the person before he or she died, and whether any…
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Wait… did Microsoft just kill the iPad?
With joy, great anticipation and yes, some dread, we recently received a Microsoft Surface RT tablet here in the office. Officially it is to be used strictly for testing and development. Unofficially, we simply use any excuse we can think of to get a new bit of technology on our desks. This goes double for mobile devices…
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