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Technology Professional Development Film

by Cynthia Wells

Apr 13, 2008

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Here's a great film I found for making the argument for
more technology in schools. It's short and semi-humorous,
imagining Rip Van Winkle waking up after one hundred years
and visiting a school.

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accessibility issues

by M

Apr 22, 2008

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Can you please tell me how I go about insuring that my lab
is accessible and meets standards for ADA. I'm working at
a small community college. Thanks.

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Technology Coordinator - Technology Facilitator - Instructio

by Adam

Apr 24, 2008

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Hi Guys,

If you don't mind, I have a question and ask for your
assistance.

I am a foreigner whose native language is not English. I
am working on a paper (in English) and needs your help on
the following issue:

I need to know how different are the positions, duties and
responsibili...See More

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Need help with student drives

by SC Teacher

Apr 25, 2008

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Can someone tell me how to set up an instructor's file on
the student drive that students can access to copy a
document to their own folders to read or alter? I
primarily would want them to have access to Excel and Word
documents.

Currently I have to place the document(s) into their
individual f...See More

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Carla /blockquote>

If your asking what I think you would set up a folder on one
computer where they have read rights but not modify rights.
Then share that folder out and have them map to it. Then
they can copy the file but not put their own files into the
folder.

Carla

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Teachers Net won't let me post.

by jb

May 4, 2008

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There is nothing objectionable about what I have been
posting. It just won't let me do it all of a sudden.

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jb /blockquote>

I was trying to ask about dummy terminals.

On 5/04/08, jb wrote:
> There is nothing objectionable about what I have been
> posting. It just won't let me do it all of a sudden.

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technology research project

by need a topic

May 29, 2008

I’m taking a course right now that revolves around a semester-long research project. The project needs to have a hypothesis to be proved or disproved. It must be based on both primary and secondary sources and also requires some data gathering via surveys and interviews.

I want to do something based on teachers and technology . . . but I...See More

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School policy for mobile lab - need suggestions

by Jim

Jun 1, 2008

We just received a wireless mobile lab for our school. I was given the job of developing and presenting to the staff a policy for use. The lab will be used by students in grades 3 to 6. Any tips would be very much appreciated.

Jim

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SharePoint file server?

by zodea

Jun 3, 2008

Does anyone use this? We are getting it at my school next year and I am hoping it will be useful.

It has been described to me as a web page for teachers that isn't really a web page.

My goal is to put all my assignments on SharePoint so if a student is absent or lost an assignment they can go there to get it.

Anyone kno...See More

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Ralph I've used an older version of SharePoint both the Portal Server and the Windows Sharepoint Services (2003). They were packaged together, worked together, but met somewhat different needs.

The Portal Server was used at a more generic and open level to provide information to the entire school through web pages in what are called "Areas". ...See MoreI've used an older version of SharePoint both the Portal Server and the Windows Sharepoint Services (2003). They were packaged together, worked together, but met somewhat different needs.

The Portal Server was used at a more generic and open level to provide information to the entire school through web pages in what are called "Areas".

The Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) were directed more to individual classrooms or in Microsoft speak "workgroups"

Each teacher was given a top level site and allowed to create their own web pages underneath using templates. These templates provided a basic structure to each page and then you could customize this by adding "Webparts" to those sections. Each web part was really just a list. Again you could choose a list type from a catalog of predefined lists or create your own. Two of the more interesting list types were Document Library and Image Library. With these you can save any (with a few restrictions) file to your site. Obviously the document library was desgined for document files (word, excel, powerpoint, PDF, etc) and the Image library for images.

The biggest problem I see with the SharePoint product is that you really need to learn how to "administer" each site. If you don't have any support, you'll have to do it yourself and although it isn't too difficult if you're technically inclined, it will be very difficult if you're not trained. Most of the administration is about securing the components of each page and the actual placing of webparts on each page.

For instance, you want to use it to post assignments. You will need to make sure that only you can change the entries in the document library and everyone else can only read the documents.

If you have a document library for students to submit assignments, you will want to make sure that only the student who uploaded the document can change the document or even no one can change a document once it is uploaded.

A really nice feature is that every item in every list marked with who created and last changed and item and the date and time of the creation and last change.

The document libraries also have versioning, which is kind of neat. Each time a document is changed or re-uploaded the old one is saved and still available. This is handy again for allowing students to change their work once it has been uploaded but also to be able to see if they changed it after the due date if you didn't get a chance to lock the document library down.

Aside from the administration, it does make a fairly easy to use tool for classroom communications and only requires a web browser to use.

On 6/03/08, zodea wrote: > Does anyone use this? We are getting it at my school next > year and I am hoping it will be useful. > > It has been described to me as a web page for teachers > that isn't really a web page. > > My goal is to put all my assignments on SharePoint so if a > student is absent or lost an assignment they can go there > to get it. > > Anyone know how time consuming this will be? > > zodea

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