Tag: Something for Everyone
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Student Showcase
If you have not checked out the Student Showcase in WITS recently, you should now. Quite a few recent projects have been posted – new Wall Tiles, PhotoShop collages, Colony Advertisements, and more!
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WITS from Home
Don’t forget – if you want to get access to WITS from home – put in the following address: wits.williamsvillek12.org (there is not www in the address). If you have the correct address typed in, you should see a box to enter your username and password. There is also a link to WITS on the…
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Lab Opens Tuesday
The Computer Lab opens for business on Tuesday 9/13. The lab opens at 8am every day. Students can come in early to work without signing up in advance – just come in. During the day, students can use the lab during studyhall or other classs as long as there is room. Students should ask their…
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ThinkBright
This morning I was reminded again about a HUGE resource available to teacheres around the country for free – PBS. The national PBS websites have many resources available, and our very own WNED here in WNY has its own website that acts as a portal (entry page) to these resources. The WNED site, called ThinkBright,…
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Internet2
If a dial-up modem connection is the size of a soda straw (in terms of how much data can travel through it), and a cable modem is the size of a water main pipe, then Internet2 is built on pipes the size of the water intakes in Niagara Falls. Internet2 is a new portion of…
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Epic 2014
At the Technology Coordinators forum, David Warlick spoke about telling compelling stories. He showed us the following site. Want to spend a few minutes thinking about the future? Check out this compelling account of what happens by the year 2014. Its about 8 minutes long, and worth it – a very thought-provoking show. Epic 2014
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If All Goes As Planned…
Our technology plan for the next 5 years, titled (appropriately) Heim 2010, is in place. In the first phase, next year we will be replacing classroom instructional computers. We have not replaced computers in a number of years, so this is the focus for next year. In addition to that, we will begin 2 other…
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Worldwide Conferences at Your Computer
I had the opportunity to participate in a web seminar (web-inar) today regarding 1 to 1 computing. There are a number of schools and states that are starting a program to equip every student with some form of computing device (laptop, PDA, tablet) in order to promote better learning. I hope this concept is one…
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Wireless…So Close, Yet So Far
Wireless acccess to the network from anywhere in the building is still spotty. If you are close enough to an access point, it is great. If you are not close enough, it is not so great. IT has made a committment to get the wireless overlay network totally fixed during next school year. When that…
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Which Printer?
Here is a question that comes up all the time. “I just printed – which printer will my stuff come out on?” At home, with one printer, the answer is simple. In school we are networked, which means you can print to just about any printer from any computer. So the question becomes, “which printer…