The Odyssey of the Mind teams are formed and working on their solutions. We welcome Union Springs back this year. The Regional Competition will be held on March 15 at the new BOCES Regional Education Center on West Genesee Street Road in Auburn. We are excited to be hosting this at our new facility. The preliminary number of teams is 68:
§ Auburn – 13
§ Cato-Meridian – 6
§ Jordan-Elbridge – 3
§ Moravia – 6
§ Port Byron – 5
§ Skaneateles – 23
§ Southern Cayuga – 5
§ Union Springs – 3
§ Weedsport – 4
Important dates and information are available at our website
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
LTAC Meeting Notes
Five districts and the CNYRIC were represented at the meeting today. Deric Tallman, from CNYRIC, introduced School World. It is used to build web pages and is available as a service from the CNYRIC. Port Byron, Jordan-Elbridge and Union Springs are already using it.
WAN Update/Centrex/tech plans were discussed. Rick Dillon explained the Centrex RFP which is out now. Districts are interested in looking at changing the way they look at phone service. 3 districts currently have Centrex agreements that need to be renewed or dropped. The WAN is now complete with the addition of Southern Cayuga. The Tut will be installed soon at Port Byron. Linda will check with Kathy Smith about the e-rate requests recently distributed. It appears to duplicate what Tony has asked for.
The group requested that we look at Nortel and Cisco phone solution demos for January. Rick and Linda will coordinate.
The Distance Learning room at the Regional Education Center is being installed today.
Rick discussed the CNYRIC move "across the street" to RODAX. The current RIC building will become OCM BOCES administration.
Randy Ray is scheduled to speak at the next LTAC about retention of e-mail. Steven Tryon from Oswego BOCES may come to speak on web building tools.
The School Library System now has 6 districts on OPALS and Auburn is considering it.
Jerry is catching up on AV/computer repairs. He talked about the Xerox/Tektronix printers and the plastic failure in them.
Linda talked about Soundzabound, the royalty free music, that was purchased for high schools a few years ago. There is now a fifth volume which will be purchased for each high school through the ISS co-ser.
Linda introduced middle school science teachers to video clips which are MP4 and can be loaded and searched within I-Tunes. They were excited about their use. Disks will soon be available for them to use and for districts to add to servers if they want.
Next meeting is December 20.
WAN Update/Centrex/tech plans were discussed. Rick Dillon explained the Centrex RFP which is out now. Districts are interested in looking at changing the way they look at phone service. 3 districts currently have Centrex agreements that need to be renewed or dropped. The WAN is now complete with the addition of Southern Cayuga. The Tut will be installed soon at Port Byron. Linda will check with Kathy Smith about the e-rate requests recently distributed. It appears to duplicate what Tony has asked for.
The group requested that we look at Nortel and Cisco phone solution demos for January. Rick and Linda will coordinate.
The Distance Learning room at the Regional Education Center is being installed today.
Rick discussed the CNYRIC move "across the street" to RODAX. The current RIC building will become OCM BOCES administration.
Randy Ray is scheduled to speak at the next LTAC about retention of e-mail. Steven Tryon from Oswego BOCES may come to speak on web building tools.
The School Library System now has 6 districts on OPALS and Auburn is considering it.
Jerry is catching up on AV/computer repairs. He talked about the Xerox/Tektronix printers and the plastic failure in them.
Linda talked about Soundzabound, the royalty free music, that was purchased for high schools a few years ago. There is now a fifth volume which will be purchased for each high school through the ISS co-ser.
Linda introduced middle school science teachers to video clips which are MP4 and can be loaded and searched within I-Tunes. They were excited about their use. Disks will soon be available for them to use and for districts to add to servers if they want.
Next meeting is December 20.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Media Request Facts
Our new media system provides some interesting statistics.
The top 5 requested videos were:
Cells
Ocean Life
Donald's Fire Drill
Dying High: Teens in the ER
Pseudoscience
The search used most often was Bill Nye.
There have been 428 bookings for videos and 27 for DVDs. There were 81 requests for videostreaming from PowerMedia Plus.
The busiest hour is 8-9 AM. Monday and Tuesday are the busiest days.
76% of the orders were placed via the internet.
The top 5 requested videos were:
Cells
Ocean Life
Donald's Fire Drill
Dying High: Teens in the ER
Pseudoscience
The search used most often was Bill Nye.
There have been 428 bookings for videos and 27 for DVDs. There were 81 requests for videostreaming from PowerMedia Plus.
The busiest hour is 8-9 AM. Monday and Tuesday are the busiest days.
76% of the orders were placed via the internet.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
October Copy Service
The numbers are in for the copy service for October. 2,503,860 copies were completed in October. It was another busy month.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Copy Service Update
The final tally is done. The total copies for August and September is 4,744,946 copies.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Media Catalog Problems
We have been dealing with two major problems with our media catalog. Labels weren't printing for materials to be shipped to teachers. That problem was fixed today and all of the materials from the last few days should be arriving in the delivery tomorrow. Please contact Linda if you they don't arrive.
Today we had a Denial of Service attack on our server. Mike tracked it down to an IP address in Amsterdam, Netherlands. That IP has been blocked and the server is back up. You should be able to log in.
Today we had a Denial of Service attack on our server. Mike tracked it down to an IP address in Amsterdam, Netherlands. That IP has been blocked and the server is back up. You should be able to log in.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Fall Media Previews
The fall media previews are ready for you to look at. They can be ordered by e-mailing or calling Judy Beaumont. If you use mediaographies in the new Media Catalog, you can see the titles. Please help us to purchase new materials by previewing. The titles are:
- ANGRY AND VIOLENT TEENS (095850) MH 2006
Preview
Cash Flow Fever (095841) MH 2005
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