I’d like to congratulate and welcome Chad Cushway as our new Wide Area Network Specialist. He will be working with Matt Williams for training for the next few weeks.
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ERAC 2008: Wrap-up
Looking at streaming video. A possible change for next year would be purchasing videos provincially and selling them (similar to what the ministry used to do) in digital formats at low cost with specific BC focus. There is a concerted effort to keep people informed, but cannot release negotiation info until things are agreed upon. […]
ERAC 2008: Video and Streaming in the Classroom
Waynor and Discovery Education streaming (aka united streaming) are in partnership with this streaming project. http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ Started the session with questions from the group to help and steer the direction of the presentation which included whether these can be embedded into moodle, what are the costs, compatibility, bandwidth issues etc. Discovery Education streaming is a […]
ERAC 2008: Online Databases
Question about all or nothing offer with the online databases is apparently a hot topic. My understanding is that it is $1.65 / FTE in your district is pretty steep when only our high school has used them. 5800 x 1.65 = $9,570 per year when our Teacher-Librarians have shared with me that NPSS is […]
ERAC 2008: Inspiration
We already have district licencing for Inspiration for all of our mac laptops. I’m enjoying using it more and more for different projects that I need a visual of the links and organization. Gantt charts is helping as well for tielines (http://ganttproject.biz) I’m currently using inspiration for a mindmap with the restructuring project. I learned […]
ERAC: MS Learning Essentials Templates
We were provided with a CD of templates with 390 different MS templates… I can zip these and post them here for people to download. They are freely available through MS. The powerpoint presentation will be available at http://nbteacher.wikispaces.com These are amazing! I’ve seen some of the templates on the wwp image. I wonder if […]
ERAC Digital Conference 2008
Oct 2&3 SFU Surrey Here are my notes from the ERAC conference no influence is more pervasive or significant on student learning that is the teaching process ERAC Professional Learning Model: Assist districts in providing enriched student learning environments to increase student achievement Annual meetings with district contacts Professional learning and training opportunities… two contacts […]
Oct 1, 2008 ~ Staff Meeting Minutes
Agenda and minutes. 12:30pm – 2:30pm Board Room Passwords standardize passwords for labs Mac… Teacher login… standard password as discussed, admin usual standard Inventory Ask teachers at end of year to have students keep their adapter and backpack until TS staff are doing the inventory Central location (BB experience) and classes were called to that […]
WWP Pictures
I’m working on a new video as well as slideshows for the WWP… if you have any great shots of your class working with the laptops, or the technology services staff working with the laptops/kids/staff I would love to have a copy, please email me (jbell)… Thanks!
FYI: WAN Posting (closes Friday, October 3, 2008)
WAN Posting