Happy week back everyone.
I’m still trying to get the hang of this e-mailing thing,
but here goes with the latest tidbits of technology information you may or may
not care about.
School Stuff:
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Over the break the IT department attempted to do
wonders, but a few things still didn’t quite get completely resolved. If you’ve
been into the computer lab and turned on the projector, you perhaps have
noticed that the projected image is a bit…small. Without going into the boring
details of aspect ratio/video card/duplication limitations, just know that Ken
White is tirelessly working with our vendor on getting the correct model
projector placed into the computer lab for maximum viewing pleasure.
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The pen tray attached to the SmartBoard in
Euclid is now fixed and working correctly
Plea for Peace From Peter (Me):
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As Greg and I did inventory of our equipment
over the break, we noticed quite a few laptops are missing keys on the
keyboard. This is in addition to the quite a few that were missing keys on
keyboards about a month ago. Please try and keep an eye out for wandering/lazy
fingers that like to pick at things that shouldn’t be picked at. The letter “T”
for whatever reason was a very popular one to go missing. I think I got all the
keyboards good and QWERTYed again, but in the good chance that I missed one or
two, please swing those laptops by my office for the quick fix.
Fun Technology Related Stuff From Ken:
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – With a new $3 million grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the MIT Education Arcade is about to
design, build, and research a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) to help
high school students learn math and biology. http://education.mit.edu/blogs/louisa/2012/pressrelease
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In addition to this, a white paper from the
Education Arcade at MIT is available on the subject of “Digital Games,
Social Networking and Simulations: How Teachers Can Leverage them” is available
at this link: http://education.mit.edu/papers/GamesSimsSocNets_EdArcade.pdf
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(This one from me!) Since we have the program on
our image, figured anyone that uses Google SketchUp would be interested in
knowing that Google has sold the product to a different company. More
information here: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-home-for-sketchup.html#links
As always please notify the IT staff of anything that is
running amok or isn’t working correctly.
Thanks!
Peter Woodburn
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