As you may have seen, we’ve started converting machines older than 2006 into Google Chrome Browsers. These machines running Google Chrome are as fast as the Google Chromebooks, run Flash with sound, and are a great way to repurpose and use these older machines.
Three new pages have been created to help the technology department help you with the integration and resolution of technology issues in the district: Learn how to text Help Desk Requests from your cellphone. Sign up to receive technology alerts! You’ll no longer be out of the loop with building or district wide technology issues….
In March and April a student technology survey was sent home to completed by the students and parents to help the district gauge where we are with home technology. Six hundred and fifty responses were received, allowing a confidence interval of 3.1 at a 95% confidence level (survey results are +-3.1%). Preliminary results: Homes with…
YTD Requests (2006/2007 – 2010/2011) 2006/2007: 2127 2007/2008: 2169 2008/2009: 2776 2009/2010: 3243 2010/2011: 3235 Tags used adobe, afp, ARRA, budget, cafeteria, camera, certificates, copier, dasl, display, dns, dvd, dvr, emac, email, fax, filemakerpro, filemanagement, filter, filtering, firefox, flash, fonts, google, googledocs, googleforms, harddrive, hp2420, hp4050, hp4100, ibook, ical, ie, iep, imacg3, imovie, installation, internet,…
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,…
YTD Requests (2006/2007 – 2010/2011) 2006/2007: 1913 2007/2008: 1922 2008/2009: 2538 2009/2010: 2891 2010/2011: 2934 Tags used .2, adobereader, afp, alumni, ARRA, backups, battery, bookmarks, cafeteria, calendar, camera, chrome, copier, dasl, datalink, dns, dropbox, dvd, easygradepro, emac, email, esber, excel, fax, filemakerpro, filemanagement, filter, filtering, firefox, flash, fonts, gallery, garageband, googledocs, googleforms, gradecard, graphics, helpdesk,…
A help sheet on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird for email is now available at http://kcs.me/kdr. Thunderbird is completely unsupported software. Feel free to use it but any Help Desk Requests on its use will not be completed.
When disaster strikes with technology, it usually disrupts communications. This makes it harder to keep people up to date on the status of the downtime. Then as I’m trying to fix the problem, every text or phone call slows down the repair as I respond to requests for updates. When planning a technology alert system,…
YTD Requests (2006/2007 – 2010/2011) 2006/2007: 1613 2007/2008: 1734 2008/2009: 2240 2009/2010: 2578 2010/2011: 2594 Tags used Adobe, afp, appleworks, ARRA, calendar, camera, cellphone, chrome, contacts, copier, dasl, datalink, dhcp, dropbox, emac, email, fax, filemanagement, filter, firefox, flash, gallery, googleapps, googledocs, googleforms, harddrive, hp2420, hp3005, hp4100, ibook, imac, imacg3, installation, interims, internet, inventory, ios, ipodtouch,…
In the next few days the students of Kenton City Schools will be bringing home a technology survey. The survey consists of two pages, the first page is to be completed by each household once, while the second page is to be completed by the student (with assistance if need be). The data collected will…