Paperless

I worry that this will happen when I talk about paper reduction and going paperless…

Operation Christmas Child

Advance to 5:48 to see a story about Baldonnel Elementary and their great support of Operation Christmas Child.

2011 Technology Grant – update

The 2011 Technology Grant is now closed to submissions. The grant budget for the year is around $45,000 dollars. Around a quarter of that goes to lab and teacher desktop refurbishment cycle as agreed to in the 2010-2011 school year. Most of those dollars go to purchasing equipment from Computers for Schools British Columbia, or […]

Planned PLNet Outages

RFC #73347 Location(s): Altin, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Fort Nelson, and For St. John RNCs – All users Window: 2011-10-30 06:01 through 2011-10-30 09:00 PDT Impact: 10 minute outage during this network maintenance window RFC # 77124 Location(s):    Burns Lake, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Hazelton, Houston, Kitimat, Masset, Mackenzie andMcBride, Prince George, […]

Outage at Robert Ogilvie

Due to damage to the outside fibre optic cable into Robert Ogilvie all Internet services to the school are down. We hope to have service restored Saturday early in the week if possible.

Social Media Advice from Grade 10s

A few weeks back I did a presentation with the Grade 10 Energetic Learning Campus students about social media. One activity I had the groups do was some advice to themselves when they were younger or advice they would give to a younger sibling (we appended the instructions to a younger sibling that you like) […]

PLNet Planned Outages

RFC #73347 Location(s): Altin, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Fort Nelson, and For St. John RNCs – All users Window: 2011-10-30 06:01 through 2011-10-30 09:00 PDT Impact: 10 minute outage during this network maintenance window RFC # 77124 Location(s): Burns Lake, Dawson Creek , Fort St. John, Hazelton, Houston, Kitimat, Masset, Mackenzie, McBride and Prince […]

Internet and Site Outages

A malfunctioning satellite is affecting Buick Creek, Wonowon and Upper Halfway. The vendor is working hard to get the satellite back online. There is no ETR on the problem. PLnet has a global ticket open and will keep us informed of any information as they receive it from the vendor. PLnet UPDATE Just an update […]

ELC Grade 10’s Presentation Survey Responses

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with students at the Energetic Learning Campus about social media and mobile technology. Between some videos and activities I asked some survey questions. Here are the results (total of 107 respondents) 71% had high speed internet 85% had a mobile phone 45% had a smartphone (defined by a web […]