The Joint Technology Advisory Committee discussed the idea in January 2014 of a Walk-In Clinic for technology help. It was quite well received but we currently do not have a really good facility to support this until the Grandhaven site attached to the Aboriginal Education Centre is complete later this year. As soon as our […]
Category: Communication
Network Printer Buyout
Along the lines of our print reduction strategy we would like to offer schools a network printer buyout. In exchange for reducing one network printer in your building we will provide you with an Epson projector or $500 to your school replacement budget to be spent this year. This offer is limited to a total […]
Planned Outage – Dec 15th from 7am-10am
Below is the weekly 14-day forward change schedule edited for SD60. Please note there will be occasions where you may receive less than 14 days’ notice for emergency changes, as well as for some Vendor releases. If you have any questions, please contact the PLNet Service Desk team at support@isw-bc.ca or call 1-888-769-5678. RFC# 101281 Location(s): Fort St […]
Planned Outages – Dec 6th – 19th
RFC# 106543 Location(s): Fort St. John RNC and Terrace backbone – All Users Window: 2013-12-10 23:00:00 through 2013-12-11 05:00:00 Impact: 6 hours network outage during vendor requested maintenance RFC# 106033 Location(s): SD60- Prespatou Elementary & Secondary School Upper Pine Elementary & Secondary School Window: 2013-12-11 22:00:00 through 2013-12-11 06:00:00 Impact: 5 Minute estimated outage per […]
Planned Outage Sunday, November 24, 2013
A short outage planned for this Sunday of 5 minutes but it could be between 7am-10am MST. RFC# 105435 Location(s): Fort St. John RNC – All Users Window: 2013-11-24 06:01:00PST through 2013-11-24 09:00:00PST Impact: 5 min network outage due to Vendor requested maintenance
Planned Outages – Nov 15-28th, 2013
RFC# 104349 Location(s): Northern Lights College – Fort St. John Campus SD60 – Duncan Cran Elementary School Robert Ogilvie Elementary School Bert Ambrose Elementary School École Central Elementary Prespatou Elementary & Secondary School Upper Pine Elementary & Junior Secondary School Alwin Holland Elementary School […]
Numerous Planned Outages coming up
Please note the following planned outages. Times are in PST so add 1 hour to each end time. RFC# 105461 SD60 – Prespatou Elementary & Secondary School Upper Pine Elementary & Junior Secondary School Window: 2013-11-13 22:00:00 through 2013-11-14 06:00:00 PST Impact: 5 min network outage due to Vendor requested maintenance RFC# 104788 Locations(s): Fort St. […]
Resilience and learning technology
Mark Prensky is noted among many things for coming up with the idea of Digital Natives and Digtal Immigrants. The gist of the idea is that kids growing up in an ever connected world have a much easier time using technology than the adults that were born into the world of rotary phones and eventually […]
BCeSIS at Home and JAVA
Thanks to Adam Sander in SD20 for the guide he has posted for Mac users with JAVA/BCeSIS issues. You can find his step by step guide at http://www.sd20.bc.ca/technology/articles/running-bcesis-at-home-on-a-mac.html
OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Admittedly I have been unhappy with Apple as of late. The new OS X 10.9 Mavericks being free is one silver lining though. We ask that users at this time do not download it for their machines as we are in the process of testing it against software. Actually we are in the process right […]