FYI We’re installing a new firewall appliance for testing starting today in the building. This is in order to make some decisions regarding our future network configurations to be adaptable for whatever may be needed for 21st Century Learning. We may have some bumps along the way. Please note that the appliance can look deeply […]
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“Find Friends”
When you are signing up for social networks such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter etc they often give you an opportunity to “find friends”. See the screenshot below for Facebook. If you enter your email credentials (whether work or personal) it will allow the site access to your contact list. In the case of Linkedin we are currently […]
Planning Day 2011
The May 9th planning day saw us join together with Student Support Services for most of the morning. We started the day looking at a district update on the Energetic Learning Campus. SSS joined us while we were talking about the technology and philosophy of the ELC. Grounded in Project Based Learning and 21st Century […]
Abracadabra Trial
I’ve recently loaded The Learning Toolkit onto a sandbox server for a trial with Baldonnel. Abracadabra is a research based website for reading and writing in the early years. Abracadabra stands for A Balanced Reading Approach for CAnadians Designed to Achieve Best Results for All. It is part of a 2004-2005 and ongoing Concordia research […]
Ordering – Requirement
Schools wishing to order through technology services must do so via work order (helpdesk.prn.bc.ca). Please include what you are looking to order as well as the account code to charge. If the order is for a computer we will normally purchase Dell or Apple computers for schools. If the order is for a printer please […]
Asgard End of Life
Please note that the Asgard system (legacy job postings, IEP) will be decommissioned on July 15, 2011 at 9am. A Virtual server copy will be moved to DVD and stored. Job postings will be moving to the provincial job postings site called Make A Future. Currently teacher and admin postings have been moved and support staff […]
Youtube and conserving bandwidth
I’m a big supporter of video sites like youtube and teachertube for education. It’s always been a curiosity as to what kind of bandwidth does it use up though and we regularly deal with complaints about slow internet. Internet can be thought of like the water utility. If everyone in your apartment building is trying […]
WWP Overview
In the interest of transparency and web accessible documents I’m adding this overview of the WWP so we can easily refer to it. Wireless Writing Project Overview and Plan In September, MacBooks will be distributed to all grades 6 and 7 classes. The primary focus of MacBook use is for written expression. Within a few […]
QR Code Activity
Here’s a fun smartphone activity that is pretty quick to build. I did this in our board office this afternoon in 10 minutes. Find a website with an educational activity/resources. Create QR Codes and insert into a wordprocessor doc. I created the QR code simply and quickly at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ Print off and affix to various places in […]
SBO Decagraphia
Cale Birk and Gino Bondi have posted 10 picture tours of their schools. Gino called his a Decagraphia which I thought was a great name. So with a few minutes and Evernote on my iPhone I took the following pictures. While my captions are not profound (have a look at Cale and Gino’s links above […]