You have probably have seen the latest trend on Facebook for scammers. You may have even had these strange posts on your Facebook wall. There will be a post on a users Facebook page like ‘OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: or where they try and get you to Like a product page. When […]
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Zig Ziglar: ‘You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great’
International Education Website
Brian Campbell and I have been working for the last few weeks and I’m happy to say that the new SD60 International Education Website is up and running. A few translations of applications and some more info on home stay and hosting to come. Have a look! http://www.prn.bc.ca/int/
FSA 2011
Everything you wanted to know (testing your computer, administration, practice tests at least) about the 2011 FSA is available at https://www.awinfosys.com/eassessment/fsa.htm Important Dates Field Test Units Available online November 22, 2010 – January 14, 2011 Assessment Administration in Schools January 17 – February 25, 2011 Scoring and Score Entry Complete March 18, 2011 Identifying Students […]
Acceptable Internet Use – Board Policy 4001
A couple of highlights from Board Policy 4001 – Acceptable Internet Use which governs all staff and students in their use of online resources along with the Acceptable Use Agreement which all students/parents are to receive at the beginning of the year if they wish to use any technology in the district. Internet access is […]
Why we use, and recommend WordPress
In 2007 I was tasked to do some work on school district websites. I spent many hours evaluating publishing software and realized that WordPress actually lived up to the 5 minute install claims. That and the fact that you can train people in under an hour how to maintain their website/blog for their school or […]
Secure Passwords
Everyone should be using secure passwords these days. As of this weekend there was another security breach at one of the large online websites. This in turn spawned the hacking of twitter. You can read about the incident at Forbes . Creating a secure password does not take an in depth knowledge of splitting atoms […]
Internet Traffic – Conserve The Bandwidth
Looking at traffic for the last three weeks into and out of our Board Office (196.4Gb) and was trying to come up with a visual for this. An old stack of floppy disks came to mind. If 1 floppy disk could hold 1.44Mb and 1Gb = 1024 Mb, and a floppy disk is about 1/8th […]
Fibre Upgrade @ Ecole Central
Happy to inform that Ecole Central will be getting a 10Mpbs fibre optic upgrade from their current 1.5Mbps EB1 copper line in February 2011! Thanks to the folks at PLNet for their work on our behalf with upgrades!
Six Word Story – Instructional Strategy
I’ve seen this someplace and was re-inspired by twitter this morning as I noticed the #sixwordstory hashtag. I created a quick powerpoint presentation about them and have shared on SlideShare. File and embedded are below. Six Word Story Six Word Story, Six Words, One Picture: Writing Strategy View more presentations from School District 60: Peace […]