Just a quick note: when you log into your blog you will have a bunch of pull down menus at the top of your page. For example, you can log in, then go to ‘Add New’ and choose ‘Post’. That will bring you right to the new post page. There are a lot of other [...]
Entries Tagged as 'District 62 Updates'
Shared Public Calendars
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · District 62 Support, District 62 Updates
We have created shared public calendars for each of our buildings. The calendars exist on the email server which means that everybody has access to them right out of Entourage. Maintenance is entering information including building reservations and meetings. Also, some buildings are entering curricular information. Watch this short tutorial if you would like more [...]
New Phones
July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · District 62 Updates
Out with the old, in with the new. We have begun the transition to our new VoIP phone system. As proof here is my new phone: …and here are most of the old phones from the admin building: The next big day for district phones is August 13. On that day we move the eight [...]
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Teaching in the T.I.L.E.s
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · District 62 Updates
“The real hope for deep and enduring processes of evolution in schools lies with students. They have a deep passion for making schools work. They are connected to the future in ways that no adult is.” – Peter Senge TILE stands for Technology Integrated Learning Environment. The Space: TILE classrooms are approximately twice the size [...]
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State of the Network
January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · District 62 Updates
We are about two weeks into having a fully deployed fiber optic network across the district. Depending on who you are and what you do you should experience improvements that are obvious to ones that are subtle. I know that when we move data around the network we have sometimes shaved tens of minutes off [...]
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Broadband Success!
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · District 62 Updates
In case you haven’t heard, our transition to AT&T’s fiber optic opt-e-man network was successful. Currently the Admin Building & Algonquin are up and running. We are confidant that the whole district will be switched over by Thanksgiving. We are experiencing a real increase in speed, resources that were not open to us before are [...]
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Goodbye old friend – Appleworks
May 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · District 62 Support, District 62 Updates, Tech Tips
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 [...]
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Summer Changes – Exchange for Email & Calendars
May 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · District 62 Support, District 62 Updates
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 [...]
Broadband!
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments · District 62 Updates
Wednesday April 29 was a happy day. That’s the day we could stop saying, “Broadband is coming, there’s no reason to think we won’t get funded.” Why? Because we got our E-rate funding for district wide broadband upgrades! Yes d62′ers, there is broadband and we are getting it. We have a meeting with AT&T Monday [...]
