Zig Ziglar: ‘You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great’
Category: Communication
Why we use, and recommend WordPress
In 2007 I was tasked to do some work on school district websites. I spent many hours evaluating publishing software and realized that WordPress actually lived up to the 5 minute install claims. That and the fact that you can train people in under an hour how to maintain their website/blog for their school or […]
Internet Traffic – Conserve The Bandwidth
Looking at traffic for the last three weeks into and out of our Board Office (196.4Gb) and was trying to come up with a visual for this. An old stack of floppy disks came to mind. If 1 floppy disk could hold 1.44Mb and 1Gb = 1024 Mb, and a floppy disk is about 1/8th […]
Fibre Upgrade @ Ecole Central
Happy to inform that Ecole Central will be getting a 10Mpbs fibre optic upgrade from their current 1.5Mbps EB1 copper line in February 2011! Thanks to the folks at PLNet for their work on our behalf with upgrades!
Six Word Story – Instructional Strategy
I’ve seen this someplace and was re-inspired by twitter this morning as I noticed the #sixwordstory hashtag. I created a quick powerpoint presentation about them and have shared on SlideShare. File and embedded are below. Six Word Story Six Word Story, Six Words, One Picture: Writing Strategy View more presentations from School District 60: Peace […]
Save the Bandwidth! PLEASE!
PLEASE! HELP SAVE THE BANDWIDTH! Did you know that schools may only have a small bandwidth available to them? This is often used up all day long and split between many computers and many devices at the same time. The more computers and devices accessing the same bandwidth, the slower the internet will be for […]
Power Saving and Computers
We are looking at implementing a power saving regime in the district. We’d ask you that if you are done using your computer for the day to shut it off. Although a quick look through schools shows that many machines in classrooms and labs are left on 24/7. Desktop computers use around 100W at idle, […]
Student voice and technology
While I was cooling down from my morning treadmill I found this through google reader and the Superintendent’s blog (www.leadership.prn.BC.ca) about student voice and technology. Read the post and watch the video at the link below www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1512 And I posted this while stretching – don’t try typing on your phone while on the treadmill…
Bowes Upgrade
Bert Bowes has been upgraded to a 100Mbps fibre connection 🙂
Social Responsibility Online & with Technology
I do parent night presentations through September for our 1:1 program and a few nights about various online topic through the school year. I’m going to use this post to collect what I think are some salient thoughts, experiences and questions & some answers. Please comment to add some more! Adults need to participate in […]