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Interested in Professional Development via Twitter?
Technology Services has one mobile device (an ASUS EEE Pad Transformer Android tablet) to lend to a staff member who Doesn’t have a laptop assigned to them as part of their job Doesn’t have a personal laptop Is interested in learning and connecting with other educations professionals through twitter Has access to high speed internet outside […]
Responses to Online Communication
The face in the “Don’t Feed the Trolls” icon I made above is from various places on the internet (which, nb: are not always safe for work). The icon is often used when someone is being trolled and is frequently called the trollface [wikipedia]. Trolling is the act of intentionally trying to anger, frustrate, or […]
Printing, the Environment, and Math
We’ve been collecting printing data through a PaperCut printing service installed on all of our print servers in the district since last spring. This data collection has been part of an eventual plan to reduce printing and paper use to reduce the district’s carbon footprint. One of our schools uses a crediting and web based […]
Planned Server Maintenance – March 26 8am-10am
We will be doing some planned server maintenance on March 26 from 8am-10am. Some services will be unavailable district wide for hopefully a short window during that time.
Walk the Solar System – update
The sample sign is done for the SD60 and City of Fort St John Walk the Solar System project. You can view it at http://www.prn.bc.ca/projects/solar/?p=64 After we look at the sign for feedback I’d be hoping to get a class this school year to help with deciding what will go on the signs for the various […]
12 things kids want from their teachers
I saw this on twitter last night. http://www.angelamaiers.com/2012/02/12-things-kids-want-from-their-teachers.html I shared it with my wife and she said that those are likely 12 things that people would like from their supervisors as well. How are you doing with these 12?
PLnet Packet Loss Resolution
Our Global incident has now been closed. The root cause was identified as upstream vendor hardware failure. Connectivity over the main link to Victoria was re-establish on Friday and the failing component was replaced Saturday. Monitoring done by SSBC showed no further issue since.
myBrainshark
A staff member shared myBrainshark with me. It allows you to upload a PowerPoint and easily record a voice over for each slide, share it online, share it via social media etc. Quite neat! Here’s my first go at it below
PLNet Global – Packet loss – multiple areas in Northen BC
A reoccurrence of last week issue has been noticed at our Fort St-John RNC Connectivity over our main link to Fort St-John was lost at approximately 5AM this morning. Back up route is in place via Vancouver but clients may experience latency, high packet loss and overall network degradation as we continue to work with […]