Technology Services for many years has covered public performance rights for videos from two different companies that cover many video production houses. This has been required in the past so that teachers and schools could show DVD’s or other videos without paying a public performance licenses. SD60 also has a Learning Resource policy regarding the […]
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SMS Phishing
I received a text message today and it made me think about an increase in phishing attacks via text messaging or SMS. You’ll recall that phishing is using a social engineering technique to get you to respond by clicking or trying to login or give your personal info to a fake website. This usually comes […]
Pep Talk
Tech Learning Passport Updated
Toni and I have recently updated the SD60 Technology Learning Passport at http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?page_id=985 Which skills do you want to learn more on?
PaperCut
Happy to announce that Dr. Kearney will be joining North Peace and Bert Bowes in implementing PaperCut for next school year.
To This Day – Shane Koyczan
A must view from http://www.shanekoyczan.com/2013/02/19/to-this-day-video/
UVic Technology Survey
As part of our support to Post-Secondary Education Programs we are sharing this survey from UVic below for. Please do take some time to complete it. You are invited to participate in a short survey titled Evaluation of Technology Acceptance in K-12 education that is being conducted by Dr. Valerie Irvine and Aaron Bailey through the Faculty […]
[Updated] Java Update & BCeSIS
Apple has released two updates that resolve some of the issues for BCeSIS compatibility for us as tested in two environments. For OS X 10.6 they have released a system updated called Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 13. For OS X 10.7 and 10.8 it is called Java for OS X 2013-001 I’ve […]
Button Cell Battery Dangers
Last night I received a flyer from a car seller with a contest gimmick key code device that lit up. Here were my thoughts on seeing this interesting gimmick this will be junk in a minute for many people and will go in the garbage there has to be a battery in there to light […]
District Resources – PRN email address
Just a reminder that you should be using your PRN email address for school district business only. If you need an email address for personal reasons please use a separate address acquired from your ISP (Telus, Shaw, PRIS etc) or a free Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, Live etc. For example some places you should be using […]