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YouTube

Video is a valuable teaching resource. In the past, showing video was very much teacher controlled. The teacher would select a video, preview it, and decide if it was worth showing to students. The teacher would place the VCR in the VCR Player, gather the students...

YouTube for students

We are working hard to implement a solution to allow students to view some YouTube videos. YouTube offers many wonderful resources. Many of our teachers currently take advantage of the videos and visual learning opportunities that YouTube has. However, we also need to...

Blog Committee Meeting

The School Blog Committee continues to work to refine the process and procedures of communication through blogs. The full meeting notes are available. Link to the document.

RESA Maintenance

RESA staff will be performing server maintenance this Sunday 11/15 from 8AM to 4PM. During this maintenance window there will be no access to Wayne RESA applications including SMART, PolyPlot, eEmployee, RESA Web site and MISTAR. During some portion of the time period...

MicroSoft Update Blackens Screen

A MicroSoft update last night is causing an issue where computers that have a touchscreen will experience a black screen upon start up. Since Promethean Boards are considered a touchscreen, this is impacting a large number of our computers. We have immediately put a...

Cisco Unity Connection Notification

For any phone with a discrete number, whenever a phone message is left, that message is sent to email. That phone message also stays on the phone. In the past, users would check for messages on their phone and then delete them. Or, when the message was deleted in...

RESA Maintenance

RESA will be undertaking server Maintenance Sunday -November 15th from  8:00AM – 4:00PM Infrastructure Maintenance This will impact accessing MI-STAR. 

MI-STAR Access

Yesterday, RESA experienced technical issues with our installation of MI-STAR. This led to MI-STAR being unavailable for a certain period of time on Sunday, October 18th. RESA has resolved the issue and is looking into their procedures to make sure that the same...

Document and Calendar Sharing

Every once in a while, life provides opportunities to test our patience, our learning and our trouble shooting skills. We've discovered another of these opportunities. Essentially, we had a database file go asunder. This file syncs with our Google Groups. We were able...