Volume 3, Issue 9
Streaming, Again
Many of you may not be awarethat just a single person streaminga video (or music from the Inter-net) can severely consume band-width in a school thus slowingeverything to a near halt. Prob-lems were experienced during thetraining sessions for PowerSchoolin which the bandwidth of theschool hosting the training waspegged, slowing training to a halt.You may think you are the onlyone streaming at any one time, butunless you contact everyone in the
building, you really don’t know.
Upon accessing the admin re-ports for DE streaming (used to beunitedstreaming) I see where mostusers are still relying on streamingvideos rather than downloadingthem
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in all the schools I visit.The gradebook we will be usingnext year is hosted online; theprogram will not be on your com-puter. Teachers who are stream-ing music and videos will be limit-ing the capacity of other teachersto work in their gradebooks. Be-cause of the problems streamingcreates, the tech department inconsidering reverting back to theold restriction on streaming duringschool hours.
Internet Safety Lessons
Don’t forget you need to teach
at least one lesson on InternetSafety during the school year.Once the lesson has been taught,please submit your lesson plan toyour tech coach (indicate the por-tion pertaining to Internet Safety).The lesson does not need to beelaborate. In fact, if you take yourstudents to the lab to use comput-
ers, do a brief “don’t forget ______” or “remember _______”
and write in your lesson plan whatyou told the students.
Cyberbullying Lessons
The National School Board As-sociation offers free lesson plansand student activity sheets on thesubject of cyberbullying. Thereare currently 4 lessons for grades6-8. These have activity sheetsand do not require computeraccess for the lesson.
Eclipse Crossword
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great for vocabularyreview. Since it is a softwaredownload to install on your laptop,you can use it
when you don’t
have the Internet, unlike the Dis-covery School puzzles.This would make for a nicechange of pace while reviewingSOLs.
Virginia iTunes U
Virginia on iTunes U waslaunched on April 8 by GovernorTimothy M. Kaine as a jointproject of the Virginia Departmentof Education, Apple, RadfordUniversity, Blue Ridge PublicTelevision, and Thinkfinity.iTunes U for K-12 education is a
dedicated area within Apple’s
iTunes Store featuring free accessto educational content. Students,teachers, and other interested userscan easily search, download, andplay audio and video content fromany computer with Internet access,and learn on the go with iPod,iPhone, or similar devices. Youwill also find other educationalcontent, such as lesson plans andparent newsletters, provided inAdobe Acrobat PDF.
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