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Just want to let you know that I appreciate being allowed to talk at your staff meeting. And again, if you think I can help out with tech integration in your classroom don’t hesitate to email me. We’ll always have YouWho.
Here’s a link to my Diigo account, specifically the tag Education. That long list of [...]

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Lot’s of good Entourage tutorials here. There are step-by-step courses as well as video tutorials.

3DCADTips: External site: www.microsoft.com
tags: Entourage, tutorials

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Free online screencasting tool
Edit: Click here for a larger version

Click the preceding link for a short introduction to our new WebMail using Exchange Server. The video is less than three minutes & covers logging in, creating new emails, synchronization between the web & your desktop, & contacts – including distribution lists.
Let me know what else [...]

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Today (Edit: Today is Wednesday, July 8!) we are going live with the new email server. We will be switching over in the afternoon. There may be some bumps or hiccups, but we are ready to go. As always, please let us know if you can’t log in for a prolonged period of time. I [...]

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Starting school year 2009-2010 District 62 will no longer support Appleworks. I know this will be painful for some users, but for us to continue to move forward with new projects we have to cut loose old & outdated solutions. Appleworks falls into that category.
While some people still use Appleworks, it will not be available [...]

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This summer we are switching our email and calendaring system. We currently use Communigate Pro* (See note below) for email and a homemade version of Apple’s iCal for calendars. Both are outdated in their feature sets, difficult to support, and increasingly unreliable.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION for all CCSD62 staff that have name@d62.org accounts:

Our old email & calendar [...]

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New Machines!

Here’s proof that they’re on the way. Way to go team.

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At approximately the halfway point in the year our district has 45 registered blogs through our Edublogs Wordpress install. Also, some of the CHIPs and other brave classes are starting to use our Private Label install of Wikispaces. This is exciting, if a little slower than I had expected. I certainly didn’t envision spending my [...]

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New Solutions: Microsoft Office
Expect a few new things in district soon. First off, we are licensing Microsoft Office for the entire district. I know this is good news for a lot of you, but wait, it gets better! First, this is an open ended license that allows us to install on as many machines as [...]

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I was in a meeting today (IIC! – get it?) and Principal Swanson said he had a link that he would email all of us. I saw my chance & I took it. You see, John has blog – but John doesn’t have a Delicious.com account. I said (piped in, really) that if John had [...]

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