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How is your school addressing distance and hybrid learning? How are you enabling your teachers for success and dreaming for the future, while navigating the constant change in the present?  Today, education continues to face changes and challenges unpredictable even a year ago – uncovered and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we prepare for ISTE20 Live, there has never been a better time to talk about reimagining education in a way that empowers growth…

In the United States, the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is likely to be different than it has been in the past. Many families won’t be getting together in person. Countless family traditions will be suspended or adapted to cope with pandemic life. Aunt Lucy won’t be making her famous mashed potatoes this year because she’s staying home. And instead of traveling over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house, you may break bread virtually…

With how heavy the world has been feeling lately, it has been easy to ‘hate’ on 2020. I have become overwhelmed by it all at times, but one of the best ways to ground myself has been to reflect on what I am grateful for.   As we head into the Thanksgiving break here in the states, I wanted to share what I am thankful for – even in a year that has challenged us all…

When Cisco’s global workforce went home to work in March 2020, many of us found ourselves with extra time. No commute. No travel to customer or partner offices. No field service calls. Conversely, those who found themselves busier while juggling different demands at home needed an activity to find some balance. Leadership encouraged us to use the found time to develop new skills and to volunteer through Time2Give, a Cisco program with paid time off…

The Linux sort command can arrange command output or file content in a lot more ways than you might realize–alphabetically, numerically, by month and randomly are only some of the more interesting choices. In this post, we take a look at some of the more useful sorting options and explain how they differ. The default The default sort might seem fairly straightforward. Digits come first, followed by letters and, for each letter, lowercase characters precede…

In my home in Asheville, N.C., I currently have 300Mbps internet to my home office. Back in my childhood home in Calhoun County, W. Va., where I still own some family land, I’d be lucky to get DSL speeds in Kbps. That’s kilobits per second.  It’s no wonder a recent Satellite Internet survey found that 36% of people surveyed said poor internet access was keeping them from moving to the country. As Alexandre Menard, a…

Register now for NSO Developer Days U.S. Invest only 2 hours and you will give yourself time to reflect over the holidays. As a result, you will have more energy in January when it’s time to roll up the sleeves again! If you care about network automation, I will give you 5 more good reasons to register for the NSO Developer Days U.S. on December 16. 1. Be inspired and learn from industry peers Do…

A well-written resume is the foundation of your job hunt; however, resume writing is overwhelming. There’s so much pressure to make your resume stand out, so many formats and styles to choose from. Figuring out how to focus on the most important parts of your career and experiences based on your current job seeking goals is challenging. Getting your resume just right in order to attract the attention of recruiters, HR pros and hiring managers…

As we look back on 2020, the pandemic has proven to be a clear digitization accelerator—especially in areas critical to COVID-19 response. Companies within the financial sector are going beyond the lobby and into the cloud. Some of the key benefits of embracing a cloud-managed IT solution include a decrease in time to market thanks to automation and zero-touch provisioning, the ability to simplify visibility and troubleshoot while helping IT teams get ahead of issues,…

Good things have come out of 2020. More time to spend together with our families, more outside time, and a few good TV shows. Like Cobra Kai. It’s a story of two karate rivals, Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso, on their journeys to build their own dojos, or karate studios. It’s a continuation of the Karate Kid saga. The story packs a punch and teaches lessons on how we can all change the narratives of…