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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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 now [...]
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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will be painful for some users, but for us to continue to move forward with new projects we have to cut loose old & outdated solutions.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 Both are outdated in their feature sets, difficult to support, and increasingly unreliable.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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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 [...]
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