Our department is working towards an Environmentally Sustainable Technology Services Department. We would like your feedback or new ideas in the comments. Technology Services will: Reuse wherever possible (refurbished machines) Recycle IT when it is at the end of usable life (data protection / destruction consideration) Power management via Software, Group Policy (Active Directory), User […]
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Cell Phones in the classroom
Week-long open discussion April 19 to 24 Hand Helds, iPods and CellPhones in the Classroom: Distraction or “Swiss Army Knife” for Research and Organization? Can we tolerate mobile devices in the classroom? Encourage them? Bar them? Join this free and open collaborative professional development opportunity to grapple with the practice of cell phones in the […]
5 Tips and Tricks for Smartboards
I learned some new things as well!
21st Century Teacher
Teacher Laptops to be returned this year (to be swapped)
All teachers will be required to return their laptops this year. We need to consider how this is going to be done and I’ll provide some options, but would like you to comment on the post (remember it is public) if you have a preference or other suggestion… Option 1 All Teachers will be required […]
SECRETARY/TECHNOLOGY FACILITATOR (BCeSIS) – Job Posting
Technology Services has a posting for: SECRETARY/TECHNOLOGY FACILITATOR (BCeSIS) Competition No. 25-131 The competition closes April 13th, 2010.
It’s often us, but we need to be taught too…
I had a chuckle this morning on twitter about a post that said something of the order “Stop blaming the computer, it’s often you that’s causing the problem!” Clicking the mouse 29 times in rapid succession does not make things go faster, it actually tries to run what you just clicked on 14-29 times depending […]
Smartboard Inservice – April 29th.
From an email to the AO’s Evolution Learning Technologies, our BCERAC partner for Smartboards, is providing a teacher, Sian Sladen, M.Ed, for April 29th to do two half-day inservices for our teachers using smartboards. TS will cover the TOC costs for schools to send a staff member. I would ask AO’s to nominate one person […]
TEDxOntarioED coming to SD60 – April 9th
TEDxOntarioEd – April 9th, 2010 – 4pm – 7pm local time What is TEDxOntarioEd? http://www.tedxontarioed.ca/ TEDxOntarioEd is where educators, academics, students, and other remarkable people will have 5 minutes to share their ‘idea worth spreading’ about motivation. This dynamic sharing will discuss the concept of motivation, how it relates to students and educators in our […]
Interviews with imovie
Toni Thompson and Kim Boettcher demonstrate personal story interviews with iMovie.