• Remember our Norms for today's meeting/training..
• Clock Hour forms and sign in sheet are at the table in the back of the room under the clock.
• Parking Lot for questions we cannot get to will be on the white board up front (stickies for these questions are on your tables). If it is out of my control I will get the question to someone who can answer it.

Item Two (starting at 8:00):

• Just for Fun!
  
  • Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone :-)
  • Vista is not a copy of OS X
  • EepyBird.com
    • Mentos and Coke II
    • Menos and Coke Happy Holidays
    • Mentos and Coke I (If you missed it)
      
      
• PSyncX
• Lets learn to back up our files
• Download Here.
• Handout - We will be building on the fly today to show you how I do this.
• Video - I will be building on the fly to use in my podcast later in the day.
  
  
• Some Misc. Mail and FTP access information
  
  
• Grade posting to the grades.wsd.wednet.edu server with Easy grade pro talk to me and I can get you the handout and set you up on the server.
  • I am going to ask for pilots of a new way to post EGP grades to a central server. This server will combine all schools and it would give parents the capability to see a studen'ts full schedule with one log in, they could also see multiple students with one login.
  • To participate in the pilot you have to will willing to do the following:
1. Give feedback on the systems use.
2. Be willing to be the "go to" person at your building for support.
3. Get a couple of other teachers to do this with you so we can really test it, pick the rabbits, not the turtles.
4. Commit to use it
5. Help build handouts or tutorials if it is a system we choose to keep.
6. Use the student's 6 digit ID for ID and Password.
7. Not use categories
8. If you can do these things I think you will find the system even easier than the current way we have teachers post grades.
• Here are the sites for the system:
1. Main Site - grades.wsd.wednet.edu
2. Student login
3. Parent Login
4. Faculty Login
5. Admin Login
6. Using EGP to post to this grades site
7. Handout built by Brock pdf - Coming soon!
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• Podcasting
  • All things podcasting located on my Resources page.
  • We will be using Garage Band 3.
  • You will be posting your podcast to prodev server using your prodev name and password.
  • Handout for posting on the weblog
    
    
• Strategies for speed on the Macbooks
  • More RAM is the expensive but easiest solution. Programs will run slower if you use non intel native appliations (Appleworks, Office, for example) If you use universal binary programs they will run faster.
    
  • The Technology department will be purchasing RAM for people on an as needed basis.
  • All new orders will have 1Gb and Superdrives
  • Also run fewer programs at once and they will run better.
  • Clean out your cache files and preference files.
  • Download and use MainMenu
  • If things are really bad create a new user account and transfer your documents over to it using a server or firewire drive, this will allow the programs to create new prefs and cache files and for some people this has been a dramatic help.
    
    
• Moodling
  • What is Moodle?
  • Logging onto Moodle
  • What can you do with Moodle?
  • Experimenting and building in the Moodle environment.