Previously, we have had some issues with names being changed in Google+. A couple of times, this has happened as a result of multiple Gmail accounts. Beginning today, names in Google+ for all staff members will be set to the official name from Human Resources. This...
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Google Docs Tip
Disable downloading, printing, and copying of any Google Drive file This new option is available for any file stored in Google Drive, including documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created with Google Docs. To enable this feature, open the sharing dialogue from...
NO COST PD
There's still time... to register for NO COST* PD offered by TRIG/Dell! Choose from 7 Topics! Courses Begin: JUNE 9 Virtual Sessions 3 Week Courses with 2 Live Webinars Choose your topic and register below. Feel free to take more than one at a time! 6 SCECHs per...
TRIG Professional Development
TRIG Professional Development Opportunities: Available absolutely FREE. (SCECH's available for $10). Two sessions of these popular VIRTUAL courses are being offered beginning on June 1, 2015. Both will be delivered by experienced educators and exceptional trainers as...
Phone Voice Mail
With our change to Google Apps, Voice mail from phones also changed. Currently, any time a voice mail is left, a copy of that voice mail is sent via email to the end user. This means that there are two copies of the voicemail. Thus, deleting the voicemail from email...
MACUL Grants
MACUL is offering up to $1,500 for technology implementation in classrooms via a grant. Purpose To encourage and support members interested in promoting effective instructional uses of the computer or related-equipment. Grant Goal Each project should focus on an...
Chromebook Raffle Results
Recently, the TAC announced a Chromebook Raffle. The raffle was to award a cart of 30 Chromebooks to classrooms. The idea behind the raffle was to seed great teachers with Chromebooks so that they can blaze the trail to develop great lessons and procedures to share...
Teacher Computer Shutdown
Beginning April 2, 2015, we will be returning to shutting down teacher computers every night. We strongly encourage all users to shut down computers at the end of the day. This saves electricity and wear and tear on the computers. However, not all users shut down...
Chromebook Cart Raffle
The Chromebook Cart Raffle was met with lots of applications. The committee is now at work reading and rating all of the applications. Since all of the evaluators are working teachers, they will be working through as quickly as possible. Once the awardees are...
Filter
We are currently working on transitioning to our new filter. The new filter will give us much more flexibility and security for the network. However, there are also literally hundreds of settings and check boxes to "get right". Thus, we are hard at work "getting...