Category: Communication

  • Jul 11, 2011

    Assessment and the Jackhammer

    This weekend I had the chance to help a friend and teacher in our district with quite a difficult project. Jackhammering and excavating a sewer line under a basement floor. The line was also twenty-four inches below the finished floor. So it was a very difficult job and after a night and a full day […]

  • Jul 6, 2011

    District Moodle upgrade

    Our venerable http://www.district.prn.bc.ca moodle site will be moving to a new virtualized server along with a moodle version upgrade to 2.1 starting 8am Monday, July 11. Services at http://www.district.prn.bc.ca will no longer be available. The new server will be located at http://district.prn.bc.ca (dropped the www) hopefully not too many hours afterwards.

  • May 31, 2011

    Teacher-Librarian Session – a look at 21C libraries, roles, etc

    May 31st from 4-7:30pm around 20 school district teacher-librarians, administrators, and library media technicians met over dinner to discuss 21st Century learning. We talked about what we think 21st Century learning is and  what do our libraries and the roles of people involved with the libraries look like  in the future. Led by Assistant Superintendent […]

  • May 27, 2011

    Testing New Firewall at Board Office

    FYI We’re installing a new firewall appliance for testing starting today in the building. This is in order to make some decisions regarding our future network configurations to be adaptable for whatever may be needed for 21st Century Learning. We may have some bumps along the way. Please note that the appliance can look deeply […]

  • May 26, 2011

    “Find Friends”

    When you are signing up for social networks such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter etc they often give you an opportunity to “find friends”. See the screenshot below for Facebook. If you enter your email credentials (whether work or personal) it will allow the site access to your contact list. In the case of Linkedin we are currently […]

  • May 4, 2011

    Asgard End of Life

    Please note that the Asgard system (legacy job postings, IEP) will be decommissioned on July 15, 2011 at 9am. A Virtual server copy will be moved to DVD and stored. Job postings will be moving to the provincial job postings site called Make A Future. Currently teacher and admin postings have been moved and support staff […]

  • May 2, 2011

    Youtube and conserving bandwidth

    I’m a big supporter of video sites like youtube and teachertube for education. It’s always been a curiosity as to what kind of bandwidth does it use up though and we regularly deal with complaints about slow internet. Internet can be thought of like the water utility. If everyone in your apartment building is trying […]