Scale Model of Solar System and City walking trails

Jennifer Andrews (@Jen_Andrews) from North Peace Secondary School got my interest going in a scale model of the solar system in the city. So here is the initial thought visualization http://yfrog.com/h3vdwrbj Starting on one end of the bypass walking trail we would have a street sign up with information about the Sun. The sign would have […]

Learn.prn.bc.ca outage – Monday, April 4

We’ll be working on the Learn.prn.bc.ca moodle server on Monday. There may be intermittent service on that moodle site. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Exactly Right

CGBarrows http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgbarrows/5460174652/sizes/l/in/pool-858082@N25/ Thanks to George Couros for posting this one.

Planned Internet Outage – March 13 6:01am – 9:00am PST

Please note that there will be a region wide internet outage for up to 2 hours at schools between 6:01am – 9:00am PST (clocks change this weekend in the rest of the world so we match the PLNet notices for times again) on Sunday, March 13th. This is to facilitate router upgrades for the regional […]

Web Literacy Presentation for District Leadership Team Meeting

Topics Browsers Search Engines What makes up a URL (protocol, domain name, file path) Strategies to check a URL (legitimate, users, whois etc) Shorten URLs The WWWW of evaluating web content (presentation) Search Engines http://www.google.ca/ http://quintura.com/ http://quinturakids.com/ http://search.yippy.com/ http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html#links http://kids.aol.com/ http://cybersleuth-kids.com http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ http://www.askkids.com/ http://ca.altavista.com/ http://www.bing.com/ http://www.kidsclick.org/   Which one of the following is real? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ […]

Dear Shaw Communications,

Dear Shaw Communications, This year has been an exciting year for us in School District 60. We’re working with PLNet on getting five of our schools upgraded for their internet service to 10 Mb fibre optic connections! I understand that Telus was the successful vendor and often the only bidder on all of the contracts […]