October 22nd, 2008 Sheraton Wall Centre The trainer session goes over how to support our rural teachers in the cohort. Highlights Session was provided F2F with a synchronous elluminate video/slide feed. Rural Schools will provide four elluminate sessions through BCELC for leadership development. Looking for partnerships with district initiatives so that we are maximizing opportunities […]
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Service Interruption
Tuesday at 4pm we are planning on doing some work to virtualize some services. Websites and webmail may be down for short periods of time. Helpdesk, and BASC will be down until 9am Wednesday morning. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Community Embedded Learning
Sharon McKenzie presented on Oct 17, 2008 to a varied group at the DDC about Community Embedded Praxis. (CEP [TM]) It’s not just structuralism, it’s not just constructivism, it is post-modernism. It’s not just linear, it is not just situational contextual, it is inter-textual. It’s not just learning, it is not just project based learning, […]
BCeSIS notes for Oct 16, 2008
Marks and Comments I’ve created some videos on doing marks and comments in BCeSIS. These are a general overview and may be a little different from school to school. They are available on the district moodle site in the BCeSIS course under Learning Objects or directly at the link below http://www.district.prn.bc.ca:16080/course/view.php?id=23 Safari For those of […]
Schools Purchasing Computers
Please note that schools wishing to purchase computers should go through our department to make the purchase. Please contact Sharon Irving at 262-6013 and put in a work order with a account to bill. We will purchase the computer, inventory, and configure it. This is to make sure that any machine that enters our network […]
Senior Network Administrator
We will be posting shortly for the Senior Network Consultant. No closing date at the moment. TS Staff, can you please comment on some questions you’d like to have asked in an interview for the position of Senior Network Consultant? I’ve included the job posting below SENIOR NETWORK CONSULTANT Posting Date 10/10/2008 Closing Date Until […]
Computer Support Worker
We’ve posted a CSW position, closing on the 20th of October. Tell your friends! http://asgard.prn.bc.ca/career/career.taf?_function=detail&job_posting_uid1=4090&_UserReference=E20C2A2BDC8AC47A48EFC50D
WWP Scratch software
Scratch is an object oriented programming language that is a fun tool for kids that can be used for writing as well as computer programming. It is built for kids by a group from MIT. Their website is http://scratch.mit.edu You can also visit a moodle course that I helped create with a group of educators […]
WWP Roll-Out
We’ve received feedback on the WWP carts and the roll out. We will look at our process and seek some areas of improvement. Some things that are clear that need some thought about matching number of adapters to computers adapters are plugged in the back of the cart filters on fans and back of cart […]
Login for District moodle sites
For district moodle site (other than NPSS at the moment) you can login using your email credentials and password. (username and password, no @prn.bc.ca needed) There is a short movie how to do this on the Moodle page or directly at http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/moodle_docs/login.mov