Practice for reading and numeracy components of the FSA are available at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/eassessment Two short videos are available that give a couple of tips on the ins and outs of using the eFSA sample. e-FSA Start e-FSA Reading Comprehension Tips
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Scratch
Scratch is an object oriented programming language that is built specifically for students to learn how to do some programming. It can be used to create screen by screen stories and you can choose to incorporate simple programming for students that want to extend their learning into the computer science realm. A masters project exists […]
2009 FSA Planning Conference
FSA Planning Conference, October 28th e-FSA lots of upgrades from plnet and awis tremendous amount of load testing confident problems encountered have been solved not certain on some of the reasons for latency issues e-FSA 2009 Planning lower rate of use in the afternoon provincially highest at 9am, 11am Pacific need to run sample test […]
Elluminate Pro-D
There is a professional development session on November 3rd at 3:30pm Pacific at the link below http://www.learnnowbc.ca/educators/Rural_Education/Prof_Learning_Login.aspx Technology Services staff are welcome to take part in this session!
Thunderbird Signature
Here’s a short how to video on how to use a vCard as a signature in mozilla thunderbird. Thunderbird vCard Signature
Email Signature: Entourage 2008
Here’s a video on how to add a signature to your emails in Entourage 2008. It may be a little different in 2004, not sure as I haven’t seen 2004 yet. Entourage 2008 Email Signatures
PLNet Future Upgrades
I’ve been informed that the majority of our schools have been identified due to bandwidth use for upgrades by 2011. This is a big project! The upgrades will move our schools to 10MB fibre optic connections. We may qualify in a few sites for 100MB connections as well. This year we have funded upgrades to […]
jing
http://www.jingproject.com/ Great tool for video and screen capture… Free! Saves to swf format, looks great, can save locally and remotely.
Elluminate Live
http://www.learnnowbc.ca/lnbcresources/elluminate/default.aspx I’m finding the elluminate is ever more pervasive in BC education. If you haven’t loaded the free java app for your computer please follow the link above.