Category: General Articles
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Creative Commons: Rethinking Copyright
Larry Lessig’s recent talk at Educause is now available online at Blip.Tv. Lessig is an outstanding speaker and eloquently builds a compelling argument on why copyright laws have increasingly become caustic to education, science and the free sharing of knowledge. Lessig, a Havard Law professor and expert on cyberlaw, is the principal architect of the…
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Penn Manor on School Tube
Students in Penn Manor High School’s Video Production course have been posting morning announcements, video clips and mini documentaries to “School Tube” for the past few months. Take a moment and check out the student work on the PMHS School Tube Channel. Congratulations to Jeff Himes and his students for creating such great videos!
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Martic Fiber Cut Update
On Wednesday afternoon, Martic Elementary School suffered a major network outage due to a truck hitting the single fiber link servicing the building. Damage was extensive and repairs involved running new fiber cabling from the building to nearby utility poles. As of Friday afternoon, the Comcast fiber link has been restored and Martic Elementary School…
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1st Week Tech Support Update
The opening of school was a busy time for the Penn Manor Information Technology Team. During the first four days of school, Gina received 285 calls to the district tech support hotline. A total of 305 tech help tickets were submitted in the 4-day period of August 31st to September 4th; an increase of 100…
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High School Smart Classroom Upgrades
This September, Penn Manor High School students and teachers will return to several new classroom technology upgrades. We are pleased to be finishing work on smart classroom additions to 99% of the building’s instructional spaces. The new smart classrooms are the result of a $550,000 data and electrical construction project, which was originally conceived in…