Thank you for watching! We are pleased to be a resource to the Technology leaders and their IT Departments, and we provide these recaps as further demonstration of Faria Education Group's commitment to our mission statement to advance international school education.
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May - Analytics Engineering with MBPY For the last event of the 2022/23 series, Adam Morris shard a tool that he has been working on for some time, using it to solve various problems, and refining and adjusting it as he progressed. It's a hobby project that is intended to be used by IT Professionals to simplify and automate actions with the public APIs. Its code name is MBPY (ManageBac PYthon.)
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April - Data Dashboards & Big Query From the school leadership side, Paul will be demo-ing dashboards at Stamford American School on top of a very cost-effective data warehousing solution. From my side, I'll be showcasing the techniques I used to bridge ManageBac's APIs and connect it with BigQuery. It's a case where we collaborated and want to share out, and is a bit of a celebration of this long-term project! Together we can tie together some of the approaches for a better broader understanding of the potential, practical use cases, etc.
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March - Integrating ManageBac and PowerSchool Discussing the idea of using PS as a source of truth to populate MB with users and enrollments. William Faure from Taipei European School and Geoffrey Derry at American School Warsaw will be joining us, a combination that has both technical chops and leadership aptitude. We will discuss extracting information from PowerSchool, updating them in ManageBac via the public APIs, and how to map courses to MB's classes.
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February 15 - ManageBac and IBIS integration ManageBac's IBIS integration, a superpower that can potentially save hours of work. with our guest speaker and Faria's own Curriculum Coordinator Tom Brodie
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February 1 2023 - OpenAI Implications to our Practice Thanks to those who joined yesterday, and especially Ryan who took us on a tour of his Reports Writing tool. Here are just some of the questions/comments made:
Essentially a sneak preview on the kinds of technologies we can expect to arise, in the age of generative AI, was as informative and inspiring as I found it. |
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December 2022 - Systems Maps Analysis We will be exploring the Systems Maps Analysis tool, a free service provided by Faria's Service Manager.
Our guest, Wolfgang Soeldner, is a highly experienced Tech Director and frequent contributor to our Discord, and we are excited to have the opportunity to learn from him. In addition to this, we will also be discussing the topic-of-the-day: artificial intelligence and the rise of new tools that are becoming available in this field, and how platforms might take advantage. You can access your Systems Maps Analysis via:
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November 2022 - ManageBac with PYthon Adam Morris will be hosting a demonstration of a command line tool that he uses extensively, nearly every day. It leverages both OpenApply and ManageBac's public APIs and allows the operator to input commands to execute common tasks.
For example, he will demonstrate how this tool can be used to:
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October 2022 - Managing Complexity We'll be asking questions such as:
We will also have some bonus content from Lindsey Devillier demonstrating how he solves complex workflows surrounding health.
Featuring contributions from: William Faure and Yin-Yin Chan (Taipei European School) Lindsey Devillier, Beijing World Youth Academy |
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September 2022 - Change Management", We'll be asking some of the most common questions school-based practitioners have when it comes to managing platforms, such as:
Featuring contributions from: Lindsey Devillier, Beijing World Youth Academy Bryan Fawcett, Osaka YMCA International School |
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May 2022 - End of year, start of year Are you building the schedule for the next academic year? How do you prepare to onboard your new colleagues? What can we do now to make August flow more smoothly? We'll be inviting some members of our community to discuss. Featuring contributions from: Francisco Vigo, Oeiras International School Antony Rappai, The Overseas School of Colombo Moin Chorgay, Oberoi International School - JVLR Campus |
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March 2022 - Actionable Data
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February 2022 - Data Protection Our invited guest Tony Sheppard shares with us his experience in the area of data management and safeguarding. We'll be asking some of the most common questions school-based practitioners have, such as:
Tony wears many hats in the data protection space, both at Net Support and as an independent contractor with EdTech vendors. He can be a valuable resource for connecting to the data protection space, and so we would be pleased if you could join us live via Zoom and discussion on Discord!
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January 2022 - System Analysis |
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December 2021 |
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November 2021 - Sweating the Details of the APIs |
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| October 2021 - The Role of the Tech Director A round-table discussion with four esteemed panelists. Our panelists bring a variety of perspectives to the creative tensions present in international schools, who have to navigate between Academics and Operations, Accessibility and Security, and Education and IT. The "Technology Director" plays a key role.
Our panelists:
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| September 2021 - Onboarding & Documentation During the first few months of the year, schools everywhere are beginning their journey for the year, and the effort is often focused on providing teachers, parents, and students with documentation to get the year started right. How do technology professionals employed at schools do this? What do they use to get the message across? How does the updating process go? How do users reach out to get help when glitches inevitably occur? Great documentation is only so useful, though. The underlying onboarding process has to be smooth, so those glitches are limited and maintainable. How do we check that everyone has what they need? What can we use to visualize all of your data? |
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