Catie Bell let me know this morning that free online courses from Alan November Learning are available at no cost to Lab School teachers and administrators through pooled Title II funds. These are high quality, high impact online experiences that will absolutely improve your ability to conduct effective web searches, evaluate the information you find, [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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Over the spring break, we moved mail service to a newer, faster server to help address the slowdowns we’d seen last quarter (you may recall the issue with spikes in the number of simultaneous connections). Since the change, we’ve not seen any slowdowns or interruptions like the ones some of you reported. We also see [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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You may have noticed that UCLS Blogs was offline this weekend. Unfortunately, Friday morning our blog server experienced and unexpected, and critical, issue. We immediately brought the service down in order to prevent extensive database corruption. For the rest of the day and throughout the weekend, we worked hard to repair underlying issues and ultimately [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Phillip Thomas
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Toshiba announced this morning that it will no longer produce players for the HD-DVD format. Blu-Ray’s recent adoption by Netflix and Wal-Mart, two of the key players in the DVD world, were the final nails in the HD-DVD coffin. So go ahead and buy that Blu-Ray player!
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Curt Lieneck
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If you need some good holiday background music for social events, visit pandora.com, create a “station” by typing in a holiday song you like, and Pandora will go out and find other songs like it and play them for you, streaming them right to your desktop. Plug in a set of inexpensive computer speakers, and [...]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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This a quick note to let everyone know that the new contacts page is live. This index replaces several other pages that were previously used to house contact information. In addition to collecting this information in a single place, this new page is populated with data drawn directly from PowerSchool, our database of record. This will facilitate [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Joe Kallo
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A change that happened over the summer when Rowley Library switched from Follett Catalog Plus was that the URL address of Blaine Library automatically changed. Blaine last year had a URL that indicated siteid=2, now it is siteid=1, further the software last year used the default port 80 for listening on the web, but [...]
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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We’ll be acquiring copies of Office 2007 for Windows and Vista soon under the Microsoft Campus Agreement. Before you borrow and install these programs for professional use at home, you may want to think twice. Office 2007 for Windows is not backwards compatible with other Office versions, either on Windows or the Mac. And Vista [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2007 by jk
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Here’s news we’ve all been waiting for the addresses of the New & Improved DNS Servers with the special mud flaps and chrome trim are now in. And the addresses are: 128.135.249.50 and the ever popular 128.135.247.50 Don’t forget those old worn out addresses need to be replaced with New & Improved addresses [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by jk
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