Category: General Articles
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Technology Help Statistics For September
The start of school was a busy time for everyone. The technology team closed 765 tickets during the month of September. Remember that help requests should be communicated to the technology team via the ticket support system: http://support.pennmanor.net. You may also find a number of self-help guides on the support site. Urgent items may be…
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Scientist for a Day
Here is a very cool competition for students interested in astronomy and science in general. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is running a contest where the winning student will decide where the cameras onboard the Saturn Cassini spacecraft will be directed: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/scientist/6th_edition/index.cfm Make haste! Essays are due by October 30th 2008.
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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…