Teaching blogging to Espy K & 1st grade teachers
Working with the Espy’s Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers with blogging. […]
Year: 2011
Look out, there’s a new tablet in town and it’s HOT!
Announcing the Kindle Fire Amazon announced a few new Kindles today, the most important, in my mind, is the Kindle Fire. It is a 7″ tablet running a specialized version of Android. The shocker was the price, $199. With todays announcement, every school district that is looking at mobile devices will need to take a […]
Texting the Help Desk, Tech Alerts, and Using the Help Desk
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. […]
Student tech survey results part 1
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 […]
Help Desk report for April, 2011
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, […]
PC Routers at HC and ES
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, […]
Help Desk report for March, 2011
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, […]
Alumni speaker for the University of Findlay College of Education
I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as […]
Thunderbird Help Sheet now available
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. […]
Get technology alerts
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, […]