Category: General Articles
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CFF Training, Tech Planning, Course Selection
February and March are turning out to be busy months in technology land. Three big events happened this week alone: On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 60 High School Classrooms for the Future Teachers participated in the first day of MacBook instruction. Jim Weber from Apple was onsite to lead the “out-of-the-box” training. Jim did an…
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Classrooms for the Future Install Begins
On Tuesday, the PDE grant installation team is on site to begin mounting the Polyvision boards, unboxing laptops and generally kicking off the mammoth installation of Classrooms for the Future gear. Over the next four days the tech team and PDE team will install and setup 60 interactive whiteboards, 450+ laptops and 60 data projectors.
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Casper Training is Not Spooky
This week several members of the tech team are at the High School receiving training on a set of software tools collectively know as the “Casper” suite. Casper is a sophisticated tool designed to make the process of computer setup and software maintenance much easier for technical staff.
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Seaching for a Systems Engineer
At the January 7th school board meeting, Steve and I delivered an update on the forthcoming organizational changes to the district technology team. Because our search for a district database specialist was unsuccessful, we have devised a new plan.
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Hosting Local Digerati
Today Penn Manor hosted the Lancaster Lebanon IU13 Technology Directors meeting. Technology leaders from surrounding districts were onsite to hear presentations on our technology program, infrastructure, current projects and overall system platforms. A special thank you goes out to Kevin Bower and Tina Shank for taking the time to demonstrate their innovative classroom projects and…