Information Technology
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Finish Line 2007 – A Big Thank You
Wow- Summer is gone and we are off and running for the 07-08 school year. Somewhere between the wires, computers, network accounts, hard-drives, software, systems, servers, telecommunication racks, keyboards, fatal-errors, mice, phones, projectors and general maze of tech gear stands my team. They’ve been working like mad for two months to get us ready for…
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Elementary Gradebooks are Ready
Elementary teachers may now log in and view their homeroom rosters in Sapphire. Subject “courses” have been assigned and teachers may begin using the gradebooks immediately. New this year is a consolidated year-long attendance portfolio for students. To access this report, go to any one of your subject courses, select a student, go to the…
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New IEP Software – Getting Closer
On Friday August 17th Beth Campagna and I met with a small group of learning support teachers, special ed staff and psychologist for a preview of the new IEP writer from K12 Systems. What we saw both impressed us and made us decide that we need to keep the project in the oven for just…
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Secondary Gradebooks are Ready for 07-08
Effective Sunday August 12th, Sapphire Gradebooks for teachers in grades 7-12 are ready to go. Teachers may begin utilizing the gradebook immediately. A reminder to select 2007-2008 from the school year menu and to use your network login info to sign into the system (same as last year.) Also, we have received version 3 of…
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Web & Social Computing Inservice Reflections
Today’s inservice on new web tools went well. We didn’t have enough time to explore as much as I had hoped to present but the crew had a great time learning new lingo and software tools like Del.icio.us, Edublogs and Bubbl.us. For those of you who attended and are looking for today’s list of links…