Please be aware of the planned internet outage on Sunday, March 6th from 7:01am 10:00 am local time. This is for a regional PLNet/SPANBC internet upgrade from a 100Mb to 1Gb connection. The outage will be up to 2 hours during this time frame. RFC #66093 Location(s): Fort St. John RNC – All users Window: […]
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Library: Book Purchasing
Fiction books: Please feel free to purchase as many books with out MARC cataloguing as you like. These records require very little time to create. Non-Fiction books: These books fall under the District Protocol when buying more than 25 books from a single supplier. Please purchase non-fiction from a supplier who offers MARC record cataloguing […]
Library: Literacy Support & Reading Program Mini-books
Please do not send mini-books/booklets with 20 pages or less for cataloguing – unless they are grouped into bags. Indicate whether the call number should be Teacher-Reference or Everybody. Keep in mind these books are too tiny for the regular shelves.
Library Policy/Protocols/Guidelines
We’ve created a new category so we can list library specific policies/protocols/guidelines for School District 60. This category and the posts in it pertain to district specific library functions, resources, services etc. The use of the blog will enable us to maintain the knowledge in a quickly accessible place for future and current staff to […]
Why you should allow Skype in your district
Had a call from our SETBC consultant about whether we allow Skype in our district. “Absolutely” was my response. They are looking at using it more for web meetings in addition to / instead of adobe connect and are just checking to make sure that it is available in districts they work with. We’ve used […]
Think Before You Tweet
So here is a quickly put together first draft idea for a Think Before You Tweet video.
Brain to Twitter Link?
Yesterday I was looking at a local Paper.li which is a service that allows you to build a newspaper from people’s tweets/facebook. Really great web app. I stumbled onto something that led me to what I figured out were a couple of students at our local high school. The tweet was something about loving Mr. […]
SPANBC/PLNet Upgrade for Fort St John RNC
Our regional service will be upgraded from a 100Mb connection to a 1Gb connection by March 13th. Great news for the communities serviced by our RNC in the North!
Talented because of or in-spite of school?
Earlier in the evening my Superintendent asked the following: Later in the evening, my wife, Nicole, was working on some art work as she occasionally does being a pretty proficient artist in several different media. Tonight’s project was various paper cut outs assembled to build a raccoon. I’m always in awe of how she makes beautiful […]
Teach your Parents Tech
I saw this on twitter today and I thought it would be handy as teach your teachers tech, teach your self tech etc. It has a really simple to fill out form on a couple of technology topics and then it provides you with very good videos that discuss the topics. Google centric since people […]