Information Technology
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CFF Grant Funding Update
Penn Manor has just received formal “substantial funding” approval from PDE for $106,000 in new Classrooms For The Future grant money. Funding will provide 3 additional High School laptop carts for a total of 90 new student Macbook laptops. The new carts will bring the total High School student cart count up to 14 units.…
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Tech Ticket System Statistics
This past summer we launched the new Technology Support Ticket System: https://support.pennmanor.net/. Here are some details on the first full month of operation: For the month of August 2008, a total of 474 problems were tracked via the new technology ticket system. 374 of these issues were resolved and 100 tickets were still unresolved works-in-progress…
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Podcasting Story Character Types
Here’s a great back-to-school tidbit: Mr. Hertzog has just published an outstanding podcast on the various types of characters in storytelling. His entertaining and informative cast helps to illustrate common character types with examples from popular movies and stories. Check out the cast from his English classroom here: http://room312.podbean.com. Let’s hope we hear more great…
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Welcoming Ryan to the Tech Team
The Tech Team is now at full capacity. A big welcome goes out to Ryan Davisson, our new High School Tech Analyst. Ryan joins my team from Red Lion School District, where he served as a district technology technician. Ryan’s home base is the High School tech office and he will be the primary service…
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Kerio Webmail Launched
On August 1st we formally launched the new webmail system: Kerio. As you may have discovered, Kerio webmail is very easy to use and works great with Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. All staff email, contacts and calendar items were migrated to the new Kerio webmail platform. Note that the webmail address has not changed,…