Our previous Microsoft Home Use Program (very inexpensive MS Office) expired March 31st, 2015. ERAC and MS are working on a new contract for us. Details will be posted when it arrives. Until then the HUP is not available.
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Assess Outage – March 23rd, 24th
The assessment portal (assess.prn.bc.ca) will be unavailable on March 23rd and 24th due to a system upgrade.
WWP 2015 Inventory
Please note the following dates for end of year WWP inventory June 3 – no more take home allowed after this date June 9 – teachers/schools to phone home if any ipads have not yet come back Between June 3 and inventory please check to see that students have not attached a private itunes account […]
4:30pm Internet Outage Update
PLNet reports that a technician has been dispatched and should be onsite shortly to the Vancouver Core Router to determine the cause of the outage. No ETR.
Outside internet not accessible
Wednesday around 3:20 outside internet went down due to an unspecified error. Provincial Learning Network has informed that it is province-wide. No estimated time of repair has been given. Internal web and site to site appears to be working.
Allow List – Trusted Network Access
Allow List (authored originally Feb 4, 2015) Technology Services is moving schools to an Allow List model of access to our networks. This is due to an overwhelming number of devices that have used up all available IP addresses at sites. An IP address is like a parking spot on the network. If no spots […]
Why your School or District should tie their webpage to Social Media
For a while now we’ve had our district website and some school websites attached to Facebook and Twitter. Any post to the website automatically goes out to Facebook and Twitter. We also have a separate SMS system that was built years ago that we use to communicate emergent issues in the district when needed but […]
Digital Citizenship Survival Kit
I’m working on building a physical kit to be used with digital citizenship presentation with younger students that was inspired by http://comfortably20.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-new-and-improved-digital.html created by Craig Bandura . If you’d like your class to be a guinea pig please contact me and we will set up a time!
BCeSIS, Java, Yosemite OS X 10.10
For people that have upgraded their OS to Yosemite on their Mac you may need to fix Java before being able to use BCeSIS. 1. If you’ve installed Oracle’s java 7, You’ll need to remove it. Follow the instructions at the link at https://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_uninstall_java.xml 2. Download – http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US 3. Open Terminal by clicking on your magnifying glass […]
80/20 and Squirrels
– CC-by-SA-3.0 – by Cephas – hover over or click on image for attribution. Technology Services is a service department. We aim to help the teachers, students, and staff in School District 60 with technology and educational technology. I’ve told my staff frequently that we have a captive audience. Our staff and students don’t have […]