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Category: Communication
Exactly Right
CGBarrows http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgbarrows/5460174652/sizes/l/in/pool-858082@N25/ Thanks to George Couros for posting this one.
Planned Internet Outage – March 13 6:01am – 9:00am PST
Please note that there will be a region wide internet outage for up to 2 hours at schools between 6:01am – 9:00am PST (clocks change this weekend in the rest of the world so we match the PLNet notices for times again) on Sunday, March 13th. This is to facilitate router upgrades for the regional […]
Web Literacy Presentation for District Leadership Team Meeting
Topics Browsers Search Engines What makes up a URL (protocol, domain name, file path) Strategies to check a URL (legitimate, users, whois etc) Shorten URLs The WWWW of evaluating web content (presentation) Search Engines http://www.google.ca/ http://quintura.com/ http://quinturakids.com/ http://search.yippy.com/ http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html#links http://kids.aol.com/ http://cybersleuth-kids.com http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ http://www.askkids.com/ http://ca.altavista.com/ http://www.bing.com/ http://www.kidsclick.org/ Which one of the following is real? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ […]
School District 60 Mission and Goals
You can read the School District 60 Mission and Goals at http://www.prn.bc.ca/?p=272
Dear Shaw Communications,
Dear Shaw Communications, This year has been an exciting year for us in School District 60. We’re working with PLNet on getting five of our schools upgraded for their internet service to 10 Mb fibre optic connections! I understand that Telus was the successful vendor and often the only bidder on all of the contracts […]
Why you should allow Skype in your district
Had a call from our SETBC consultant about whether we allow Skype in our district. “Absolutely” was my response. They are looking at using it more for web meetings in addition to / instead of adobe connect and are just checking to make sure that it is available in districts they work with. We’ve used […]
Think Before You Tweet
So here is a quickly put together first draft idea for a Think Before You Tweet video.
Brain to Twitter Link?
Yesterday I was looking at a local Paper.li which is a service that allows you to build a newspaper from people’s tweets/facebook. Really great web app. I stumbled onto something that led me to what I figured out were a couple of students at our local high school. The tweet was something about loving Mr. […]
Teach your Parents Tech
I saw this on twitter today and I thought it would be handy as teach your teachers tech, teach your self tech etc. It has a really simple to fill out form on a couple of technology topics and then it provides you with very good videos that discuss the topics. Google centric since people […]