I’m happy to announce that we will be upgrading the NBCDES internet connection from a 10Mbps connection to 100Mbps. The order has gone into the Provincial Learning Network. No time of completion as of yet but it is in the works!
Category: Communication
Site Internet Consolidation
I’m happy to say that we will be cutting off the ADSL connection to our Facilities centre as staff have completed the underground fibre optic connection between the building and Bert Bowes. This will result in an ongoing savings to the school district.
Responsible use of email for students
Many of you are moving into communicating with students via email. Here is a great one pager for advice on responsible use of email by students that I found via Twitter. There are many good parallels for staff as well. From http://langwitches.org/blog/2013/05/22/responsible-use-of-of-e-mails-for-younger-students/
Outage this morning – resolved
The unplanned outage this morning was due to a hardware failure in one of our server closet switches. This caused communication problems between sites, servers, and services. We have resolved the issued by moving connections to other switches and are monitoring the services. If you have any difficulties please call the helpdesk at 250-263-6442
Decision on Public Performance Licenses – Video Copyright
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and comment on my previous post regarding dropping coverage of Public Performance Licenses at http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=1904. We can now show video with an educational purpose in classrooms with the new changes to the Copyright Act without license so we will no longer be covering PPLs. One […]
Social Media Awareness Documents
Repost from http://www.prn.bc.ca/?p=1679 The following two documents have been jointly created by School District 60 staff along with our partners in the PRNTA and CUPE. They are for distribution to all staff in School District 60 and provide guidance and awareness for social media use. SD60 Social Media Awareness (Document) SD60 Social Media Awareness (Slides) These […]
I won the lottery!
People must still be falling for these kind of phishing attacks where you get a notice about getting something for nothing as I saw this in my spam folder today saying I won the “Espanyol Lotter”. I sincerely hope that if ever you see these messages that offer something for nothing that your Phishing and […]
Microsoft Software Agreement
SD60 has entered into a software agreement via BCERAC with Acrodex and Microsoft that allows us a volume license on many MS titles as well as covering our Computer Access Licensing requirements. In the past Office versions would cost a school $80 for each seat. I’m pleased to announce that we can now offer this […]
Video Copyright – Suggested Change – Comments Appreciated
Technology Services for many years has covered public performance rights for videos from two different companies that cover many video production houses. This has been required in the past so that teachers and schools could show DVD’s or other videos without paying a public performance licenses. SD60 also has a Learning Resource policy regarding the […]
SMS Phishing
I received a text message today and it made me think about an increase in phishing attacks via text messaging or SMS. You’ll recall that phishing is using a social engineering technique to get you to respond by clicking or trying to login or give your personal info to a fake website. This usually comes […]