Toni and I have recently updated the SD60 Technology Learning Passport at http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?page_id=985 Which skills do you want to learn more on?
Category: Communication
To This Day – Shane Koyczan
A must view from http://www.shanekoyczan.com/2013/02/19/to-this-day-video/
UVic Technology Survey
As part of our support to Post-Secondary Education Programs we are sharing this survey from UVic below for. Please do take some time to complete it. You are invited to participate in a short survey titled Evaluation of Technology Acceptance in K-12 education that is being conducted by Dr. Valerie Irvine and Aaron Bailey through the Faculty […]
Button Cell Battery Dangers
Last night I received a flyer from a car seller with a contest gimmick key code device that lit up. Here were my thoughts on seeing this interesting gimmick this will be junk in a minute for many people and will go in the garbage there has to be a battery in there to light […]
District Resources – PRN email address
Just a reminder that you should be using your PRN email address for school district business only. If you need an email address for personal reasons please use a separate address acquired from your ISP (Telus, Shaw, PRIS etc) or a free Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, Live etc. For example some places you should be using […]
Java Updates Dilemma
This meme was passed along to me, but I’m unsure of the original source. It does reference an important and difficult issue we are going to struggle with for the near future. We are at a frustrating time where BCeSIS is requiring us to use an older version of Java, but other tools are requiring […]
Workflow
XKCD created a comic that is something to keep in mind in regards to the Java + OS X issues we’ve been running into… http://xkcd.com/1172/
Tagged For Life
The Canadian Safe School Network shared this blog post and the video below from the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Cybersmart program called Tagged for Life. It does contain some mature content and language and with any video resources it should be previewed and considered before showing it to students. This is an excellent piece for […]
MediaSmarts
Via our BCERAC membership we have access to several MediaSmarts resources this year that are available at http://learn.prn.bc.ca//course/view.php?id=121 For the enrolment key please ask your administrator or chat/email jbell@prn.bc.ca . These resources focus on cybersafety and include the MyWorld, Passport to the Internet, Reality Check, and Winning the Cyber Security Game. For more information please visit […]
Useful for new Tweeters – Anatomy of a Tweet
Anatomy of a Tweet MT @okmbio: Useful for new tweeters. RT @bkuhn: gr8 slide from @shareski explaining a tweet #bclearns #sd60 #edtechbc pic.twitter.com/lUYWGVAY — Jarrod Bell (@jbellsd60) November 23, 2012