The Joint Technology Advisory Committee is a committee comprised of members of the PRNTA, CUPE, Administration, and the Superintendent. It discusses issues involving technology in education, and school district business. Today’s discussion topic was Standard Technology in Classrooms. The Joint Committee has released the following statement: Classrooms should have a desktop computer or device […]
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2015-2016 Gr 4 Digital Citizenship and Safety Presentations Report
Laurie Petrucci from Technology Services spent time this last year presenting to Grade 4 classes regarding Digital Citizenship and Safety. Her pre and post survey results are available in the linked PDF below. A key take away was before the session that half of our grade 4 students did not know that what they post […]
Tech Purchasing Cut-Off – May 20, 2016
End of day on May 20, 2016 is the cut-off date for tech purchasing.
Math in the Community
The City of Fort St John recently tweeted out garbage and recycling stats. This is a great real world learning object for a wide variety of grades / curricular areas. Roughly 65 elephants worth of garbage NOT going to the land fill. Yay #yxj!! pic.twitter.com/jnWgboIfLp — City of Fort St John (@fortstjohn) March 4, 2016 […]
Procurement guidelines on Layer 3 Switches from Ministry – Procedure
Procedure: Our Preferred Tier 1 Vendor is HP for Switches. Procurement of Layer 3 Switches For School Districts procuring layer 3 switches, to integrate school sites into the NGN PLNet infrastructure, the following features are required: 1 Gigabit port capabilities Spanning Tree Support Loop Protection VLAN capable Multicast Support The following layer 3 switch features […]
Digital Citizenship Plan and Computer Refresh Cycle Requirement
Originally posted September 22, 2014. The computer desktop refresh cycle for schools replaces computers in labs as well as classroom teacher stations. This four year cycle has been in place since the 2010-2011 school year. A requirement for schools to continue receiving these computer refreshes is that Digital Citizenship and Safety needs to be planned […]
NGN changes
The Next Generation Network starts today at the school board office and Bert Bowes. Schedules are being sent out to schools and updated to those that need them as they are changing as people resources are available. Upgrades will be made through the month of January and February at nearly all SD60 sites.
Retiring Devices with Data Storage Requirement
Devices to be retired that have data storage devices like hard drives, solid state drives etc should have the storage device wiped and/or the storage device should be destroyed. To be clear this has been a long standing practice in the department. Purpose Privacy Scope All devices with data storage Roles & Responsibilities Technology Services […]
MS Home Use Program Renewed!
I’m happy to say the Microsoft Office HUP has been renewed until March 31, 2018. This enables staff to purchase Office 2013 (PC) or Office 2011 (Mac) for their personally owned computers (up to two) for the low cost of $11. For more information on how to do this please see http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=1959
Please Lock Your Computer/Device – Requirement
For staff members, When you step away from your computer please lock it. It is an important and required step to protect private student information accessible through your computer and accounts. If you access systems via personally owned mobile devices or computers it is expected that you pin/password lock those devices as well to protect […]