Charlie Reisinger (He/Him/His)

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Lancaster PA

Charlie is the CIO for Penn Manor School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and the author of The Open Schoolhouse.

Open Source Champion People's Choice Award 2014 Moderator's Choice Award 2016 Author Open education Contributor Club

Authored Content

Open education: There isn't an app for that

Building classrooms that function as open organizations requires more than software.

3 innovative open source projects for the new school year

Start the school year on a creative note with these fun open source projects.

Schools that #GoOpen should #GoOpenSource

CorvOS: A custom, Linux-based solution for the classroom

Creator Aaron Prisk talks about his ready-to-go education distro for educators not familiar with Linux.

Free education resources from Curriki and Sankoré wikis

These 3 practices revolutionized Penn Manor's school culture

Learn how to gather feedback in the round, delete sit-and-get training, and take student feedback brick-by-brick.

Schools that #GoOpen should #GoOpenSource

School administrators know that traditional proprietary textbooks are expensive. Teachers in budget-strapped schools often face shortages of textbooks. Worse, print content is…

How our high school replaced IRC with Mattermost

IRC has long been Penn Manor School District's high school sweetheart. My IT team was fond of our internal IRC server, but the tool never resonated with students and teachers…

Contributed Content

Rewiring Generation Z

Busting the myth that the generation after millennials are digital natives, that they are really good at computers. But they’re not. Charlie Reisinger tells us how closed…

Authored Comments

charlie

3 Sep 2015

Back to school: 5 open source programs for students and teachers

MoodleCloud is huge. The option to quickly spin up a private collaborative space, with integrated video conferencing, obliterates technical barriers for teachers. It just works. :)

charlie

3 Sep 2015

Back to school: 5 open source programs for students and teachers

Excellent! I'm thrilled you found a program that makes your life easier.