• Twitter phishing example – think before you click

    Think before you click. That’s one of the themes of several talks that I do, or emails out to staff around nefarious communications that we receive digitally. One I haven’t talked much about is people using twitter as the medium to get you to click through instead of via email. I received this tweet below […]

  • 2011 Technology Grant – update

    The 2011 Technology Grant is now closed to submissions. The grant budget for the year is around $45,000 dollars. Around a quarter of that goes to lab and teacher desktop refurbishment cycle as agreed to in the 2010-2011 school year. Most of those dollars go to purchasing equipment from Computers for Schools British Columbia, or […]

  • Outage at Robert Ogilvie

    Due to damage to the outside fibre optic cable into Robert Ogilvie all Internet services to the school are down. We hope to have service restored Saturday early in the week if possible.

  • PLNet Planned Outages

    RFC #73347 Location(s): Altin, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Fort Nelson, and For St. John RNCs – All users Window: 2011-10-30 06:01 through 2011-10-30 09:00 PDT Impact: 10 minute outage during this network maintenance window RFC # 77124 Location(s): Burns Lake, Dawson Creek , Fort St. John, Hazelton, Houston, Kitimat, Masset, Mackenzie, McBride and Prince […]

  • ELC Grade 10’s Presentation Survey Responses

    Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with students at the Energetic Learning Campus about social media and mobile technology. Between some videos and activities I asked some survey questions. Here are the results (total of 107 respondents) 71% had high speed internet 85% had a mobile phone 45% had a smartphone (defined by a web […]

  • Planned Outages

    RFC # 75606 and #75607 Location(s):     SD62 – All users                 Atlin, Dease Lake, Fort Nelson, and Fort St. John RNCs – All Users Window:  2011-09-30  00:01 through 2011-09-30  06:00  PDT Impact:  1 hour outage for this Vendor requested network maintenance RFC # 76371 Location(s):    All  INFOSAT Satellite Connected Sites Window:  2011-10-09  12:03 through  2011-10-13  12:13 PDT Impact:  Some disruption may occur. Potential degraded service may occur during […]

  • 2 Board recommendations

    Two items of note for folks, I’ve been asked to pursue plans and possible budgets regarding portable technology for teachers. Also I have permission to move forward to seek partnerships with regional communities regarding the Scale Model of the Solar System / Trail Sign Project 5. JOINT TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Re Joint Tech Advisory Committee […]

  • District Moodle Upgrade

    The District Moodle upgrade to 2.1 has gone quite well. Roles, users, calendars, assignments and resources moved perfectly. There were a few instances where images were absolutely referenced to their old course number and had to be fixed. All the LDAP accounts were somehow imported as manual accounts. That took some work to fix but […]