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Nov 29, 2016

3yr Department Plan

Our running 3yr department plan is available in the menu above          

Nov 28, 2016

Apple Canada Coding Session – Jan 27, 2017

We are working with Apple Canada on a coding session with iPads for January 27, 2017. For more infomation check the Learning Together Professional Development Calendar at https://sites.google.com/a/prn.bc.ca/learning-together-pro-d-calendar/ in the December/January folder.

Nov 16, 2016

MDM License Requirement

A $20 charge will be applied to new purchases of iOS and Mac devices to cover the cost of Mobile Device Management license costs. Technology Services will cover renewals of licenses. Purpose Financial Scope All new Apple device purchases Roles & Responsibilities Technology Services Tech Facilitator will include in billing to schools / departments. Owner […]

Nov 7, 2016

The wind

Last week SD60 staff from schools and departments were fortunate to hear Shelley Moore (@tweetsomemoore) speak about inclusion. During the session she shared the video below.   Her point was that Technology in schools and Technology to support inclusion is the wind and we need to stop ignoring it. We should not ignore devices and tools […]

Sep 26, 2016

Assess accounts

Assess uses several pieces of information to decide what teachers can see when they log in. If they aren’t set correctly then a teacher will be missing students, classes, or receive an HRID error. Schools have several things that they should set in MyEducation BC for classroom teachers or identify via a work order for […]

Sep 21, 2016

Web server upgrades complete with one issue

Web server upgrades started at 6pm tonight and were completed by 10:01pm. The sendmail needs to be looked at as wordpress sites are not currently sending any email. We will look at is over the next few days.

Sep 15, 2016

How do you treat your tech?

Have you ever been frustrated by technology? I know I certainly have. I deal with tech every day and experience successes and failures. Having a healthy way to express our frustrations at failures is important for ourselves and our students. FAIL = First Attempt In Learning While it’s hard to apply the FAIL acronym to broken […]

May 26, 2016

Student User Passwords

An update to user passwords structures will be sent via email to secretaries and administrators. The change will be implemented this summer. The structure of passwords will apply to user accounts in K-12. Student accounts will have unique passwords. There will be no more generic school based passwords for K-5 students. There will be no change […]