The May 9th planning day saw us join together with Student Support Services for most of the morning. We started the day looking at a district update on the Energetic Learning Campus. SSS joined us while we were talking about the technology and philosophy of the ELC. Grounded in Project Based Learning and 21st Century […]
Category: General
SBO Decagraphia
Cale Birk and Gino Bondi have posted 10 picture tours of their schools. Gino called his a Decagraphia which I thought was a great name. So with a few minutes and Evernote on my iPhone I took the following pictures. While my captions are not profound (have a look at Cale and Gino’s links above […]
Playing with Livestream
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Social Media in your Classroom
Here is the link discussed in the GlobalBC media piece below http://www.twiducate.com/
Planned Internet Outage – All Schools – March 6, 7:01am – 10am
Please be aware of the planned internet outage on Sunday, March 6th from 7:01am 10:00 am local time. This is for a regional PLNet/SPANBC internet upgrade from a 100Mb to 1Gb connection. The outage will be up to 2 hours during this time frame. RFC #66093 Location(s): Fort St. John RNC – All users Window: […]
Talented because of or in-spite of school?
Earlier in the evening my Superintendent asked the following: Later in the evening, my wife, Nicole, was working on some art work as she occasionally does being a pretty proficient artist in several different media. Tonight’s project was various paper cut outs assembled to build a raccoon. I’m always in awe of how she makes beautiful […]
Facebook Scams
You have probably have seen the latest trend on Facebook for scammers. You may have even had these strange posts on your Facebook wall. There will be a post on a users Facebook page like ‘OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: or where they try and get you to Like a product page. When […]
FSA 2011
Everything you wanted to know (testing your computer, administration, practice tests at least) about the 2011 FSA is available at https://www.awinfosys.com/eassessment/fsa.htm Important Dates Field Test Units Available online November 22, 2010 – January 14, 2011 Assessment Administration in Schools January 17 – February 25, 2011 Scoring and Score Entry Complete March 18, 2011 Identifying Students […]
Secure Passwords
Everyone should be using secure passwords these days. As of this weekend there was another security breach at one of the large online websites. This in turn spawned the hacking of twitter. You can read about the incident at Forbes . Creating a secure password does not take an in depth knowledge of splitting atoms […]
2010-2011 Tech Grant
There were $55,000 worth in requests to the SD60 technology grant this fall for projectors and Smartboards. The grant has an approximate budget of 44k. 22.5k has been provided to requests from schools while the remainder will be used to upgrade school labs and teacher stations according to the replacement cycle that was put in […]