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Jul 11, 2011

District Moodle Upgrade

The District Moodle upgrade to 2.1 has gone quite well. Roles, users, calendars, assignments and resources moved perfectly. There were a few instances where images were absolutely referenced to their old course number and had to be fixed. All the LDAP accounts were somehow imported as manual accounts. That took some work to fix but […]

Jul 11, 2011

Assessment and the Jackhammer

This weekend I had the chance to help a friend and teacher in our district with quite a difficult project. Jackhammering and excavating a sewer line under a basement floor. The line was also twenty-four inches below the finished floor. So it was a very difficult job and after a night and a full day […]

Jul 6, 2011

District Moodle upgrade

Our venerable http://www.district.prn.bc.ca moodle site will be moving to a new virtualized server along with a moodle version upgrade to 2.1 starting 8am Monday, July 11. Services at http://www.district.prn.bc.ca will no longer be available. The new server will be located at http://district.prn.bc.ca (dropped the www) hopefully not too many hours afterwards.

Jun 21, 2011

WWP 2009-2011 Cohort Data

Here is our graphed WWP cold write data for the 2009-2011 cohort. Another report will follow in the following weeks with some more explanations about collection techniques, but we would like to provide this out to you first. WWP Cohort Data 2009-2011  

Jun 15, 2011

Playing with Animoto

I saw a teacher from Kamloops, @MrReidWSS,  using Animoto with students around the Red River rebellion and thought I would go back in and play a little more with it. You can make free 30 second videos with it that include pictures, video, text, and a selection of audio tracks. Cool background options too. The […]

May 31, 2011

Teacher-Librarian Session – a look at 21C libraries, roles, etc

May 31st from 4-7:30pm around 20 school district teacher-librarians, administrators, and library media technicians met over dinner to discuss 21st Century learning. We talked about what we think 21st Century learning is and  what do our libraries and the roles of people involved with the libraries look like  in the future. Led by Assistant Superintendent […]

May 30, 2011

Printer Purchasing – Procedure

Procedure: Printers (purchasing and servicing) New Printer Moratorium Moratorium discussion from March 2012 http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=1514 Technology Services will no longer support the addition of new printers to the school district unless they have a specific educational purpose (ie adding a drafting class and needing a plotter, a new fine arts class needs a color printer etc) This […]