I’m happy to say that we will be cutting off the ADSL connection to our Facilities centre as staff have completed the underground fibre optic connection between the building and Bert Bowes. This will result in an ongoing savings to the school district.
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Responsible use of email for students
Many of you are moving into communicating with students via email. Here is a great one pager for advice on responsible use of email by students that I found via Twitter. There are many good parallels for staff as well. From http://langwitches.org/blog/2013/05/22/responsible-use-of-of-e-mails-for-younger-students/
Outage this morning – resolved
The unplanned outage this morning was due to a hardware failure in one of our server closet switches. This caused communication problems between sites, servers, and services. We have resolved the issued by moving connections to other switches and are monitoring the services. If you have any difficulties please call the helpdesk at 250-263-6442
Decision on Public Performance Licenses – Video Copyright
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and comment on my previous post regarding dropping coverage of Public Performance Licenses at http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=1904. We can now show video with an educational purpose in classrooms with the new changes to the Copyright Act without license so we will no longer be covering PPLs. One […]
Secretary Posting
Technology Services will be looking for a replacement secretary for next year. Please see the posting at the link below. Closes May 21st at noon. https://makeafuture.applytoeducation.com/Applicant/AttJobPosting.aspx?JOB_POSTING_ID=18d8a751-dfa8-4086-bc99-d875e5c9cc67&PAGE=1&locale=en&MAF=1
Social Media Awareness Documents
Repost from http://www.prn.bc.ca/?p=1679 The following two documents have been jointly created by School District 60 staff along with our partners in the PRNTA and CUPE. They are for distribution to all staff in School District 60 and provide guidance and awareness for social media use. SD60 Social Media Awareness (Document) SD60 Social Media Awareness (Slides) These […]
I won the lottery!
People must still be falling for these kind of phishing attacks where you get a notice about getting something for nothing as I saw this in my spam folder today saying I won the “Espanyol Lotter”. I sincerely hope that if ever you see these messages that offer something for nothing that your Phishing and […]
Planned Internet Outage – April 28th
Please note that there is a planned service interruption for this Sunday morning (April 28th) for an hour between 6am-9am. RFC# 96296 and # 96297 Location(s): Fort St. John and Surrey RNCs – All Users Window: 2013-04-28 06:01 through 2013-04-28 09:00 PDT Impact: 1 hour outage for this network maintenance
SMART Tech at Taylor
From Mr Gill at Taylor Elementary SMART Technology: Taylor Elementary School’s use of SMART Technology has assisted students’ learning needs! Mrs. McDonell has been using her smart board to help her grade 3 students discover new strategies for numeracy. Most classrooms are equipped with interactive SMART Boards and Document Cameras to enhance the learning experiences […]
Microsoft Software Agreement
SD60 has entered into a software agreement via BCERAC with Acrodex and Microsoft that allows us a volume license on many MS titles as well as covering our Computer Access Licensing requirements. In the past Office versions would cost a school $80 for each seat. I’m pleased to announce that we can now offer this […]