Category: General Articles

This semester, 3 high school students are taking a college-level Chinese language course totally online. The program is coordinated by CAPE. Many of us remember CAPE from when it’s main mission was to help facilitate video conferencing between schools in remote/rural area. Over time, the organization has transformed itself into a coordination point for collaborative…

We have received news regarding the High School Classrooms for the Future grant. Penn Manor will be receiving $627,669, the largest technology-related grant award in the history of the district. To bring everyone up-to-speed, CFF is a multi-year PDE initiative focused on providing laptops, data projectors and “smart” classroom technology for every high school English,…

Every school year, we work through a two to three week phase where whole building networks lock-up. These brief network outages are triggered by improperly connecting a 3COM phone or small desktop Ethernet switch to the room wall jacks. Either way, one little cable can induce a network storm capable of freezing phones, email, web…

What a way to start the first day of school… Hambright suffered a lightening strike during the weekend storms. The strike cooked a chain of network electronics on the 2nd floor. Currently the building is without Internet, network and email access. Phones are working in the classroom and via the 393.3818 land line but 4-digit…

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…