Tech Department Notes The district is now 1:1 with devices in grades K-12. K-6 classrooms now have a computer for each student. There is still work to do on the logistics of using the technology. The department is in the process of purchasing Reflector licenses for the computers in the district that are used with…
Google Classroom Sync to GradeBook is now available for use. This tool will allow you to sync your grades in Google Classroom back to GradeBook without manual copying. It will be a big time savings for teachers grading in Google Classroom. The sync is a one time transfer and must be repeated for each assignment if…
I get several requests a day to unblock a website. For those that do have an educational value I unblock them as soon as I can. Some have no educational value and do not get unblocked. Why are sites filtered? Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act, which became effective in April of 2000. To…
Over Spring Break I installed (re-purposed) the old mail and web server as squid caching servers for Hardin Central and Espy. By putting this hardware it place it will: Take the load of routing off of the file servers. Transparently cache data in the buildings. What this means is when a person visits a site,…
On my Tech Fair Day 2012 course in Moodle I had listed some resources for using Google Talk and GMail. You can still enroll yourself in the course, but I’m also going to list those resources here to help you use Google Talk and GMail tips. Google Talk Go Google: Spare Tickets – YouTube –…
On April 16th I was investigating issues with the Internet Gateway and decided to run the update and let it reboot. This procedure should have resulted in less than 5 minutes of downtime. But alas, this was not the case. A corruption of the config file caused the machine to not start back up. It…
