Tech/Network Admin

Jill Elfering on April 21st, 2011

So now that I have these awesome iMacs with QuickTime’s Screen Recording and an iPhone 4 in my pocket, I have started to create some training videos for my teachers.  I thought, “Great! I can upload the videos to Google Video and they’ll be accessible within our Google Apps domain!” Not so much. Yes, I [...]

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Jill Elfering on March 16th, 2011

I just had a chance to test out the new “restrict email delivery” setting in Google Apps for my student domain.  We haven’t had the email service enabled for students prior to this because I couldn’t get Postini to work the way I wanted last year to allow mail only from within our student domain [...]

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Wendy Mitchell on March 9th, 2011

What are schools using as resources for Internet safety? fbi-sos.org Common Sense Media- http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ Carnegie Cadets – http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/ Netsmartz

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Joan May on September 27th, 2010

Wondering how other schools handle students bringing in ipods and other handheld devices – besides phones.  Do you allow students to use during the day? Do you have any policies in place? What type of security do you have on your wireless systems, if any? I am having some staff and students wanting to add [...]

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Jill Elfering on May 5th, 2010

This question is from an email thread for ArchSPM Tech Coordinators.  We’ve had this question go around a few times this year, so I’m going to try to get all the comments to be here instead of floating around our email… ———- Hello, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Julie and I [...]

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M White on November 4th, 2009

Guidelines for what is required of teachers / parents / website owners in the age of COPPA. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec10.pdf

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Jill Elfering on February 26th, 2009

They didn’t go to kindergarten, but with some convincing, these two platforms have finally learned sharing nicely the space on my external hard drive. I have this huge drive that would easily fit a backup for both my PC and Mac, but it took some time and research (and a little luck perhaps), to get [...]

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Jill Elfering on February 19th, 2009

Lisa Whitaker has a school board member that wants them to run on Linux.  Any thoughts?  The school board member writes: I have been looking into Linux and think we could do some travelling carts for pretty cheap. Or if not carts we could have some computers in the classroom. Linux runs well on old computers (Windows 98 [...]

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Jill Elfering on February 19th, 2009

This post was requested by Lisa Whitaker.  Please see below and join the conversation! I heard recently that not all features on Smartboards work with a Mac but I can’t find anything so far that shows me that. Our librarian passed this onto me: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/14847-any-school-using-interwrite-pads-bluetooth.html I found this free Promethean viewer at Promethean Planet. You have [...]

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