Friday, November 30, 2007

Re: media analysis/production curriculum

The New Mexico Media Literacy Project has a wonderful K-12 curriculum

Janet Thorson
Director of Technology
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart
10202 Memorial Drive
Houston, Texas 77024
ph: 713-468-8211, ext. 128
fax: 713-465-9809=20

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Subject: media analysis/production curriculum

Does anyone know of curricula for media analysis and production (a
subset
of media literacy) that's particularly effective for any grades from
kindergarten to 9th grade?=20

We're hoping to find something more than disconnected, individual lesson
plans (of which there are many) on topics related to media.

Thanks in advance -
Terry Dash
Director of Technology
The Pike School
34 Sunset Rock Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
ph: 978-475-1197 x294
fx: 978-475-3014

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Re: media analysis/production curriculum

The New Mexico Media Literacy Project has a wonderful K-12 curriculum

Janet Thorson
Director of Technology
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart
10202 Memorial Drive
Houston, Texas 77024
ph: 713-468-8211, ext. 128
fax: 713-465-9809=20

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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:41 PM
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Subject: media analysis/production curriculum

Does anyone know of curricula for media analysis and production (a
subset
of media literacy) that's particularly effective for any grades from
kindergarten to 9th grade?=20

We're hoping to find something more than disconnected, individual lesson
plans (of which there are many) on topics related to media.

Thanks in advance -
Terry Dash
Director of Technology
The Pike School
34 Sunset Rock Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
ph: 978-475-1197 x294
fx: 978-475-3014

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Need to go home but I'm Hooked on ISENET

It's been a busy fall, so I just subscribed, and now I am inviting friends
and not worrying about going home.

Give this a try.

Marti
LMS Academic Technology Coordinator, Georgetown Day School
mweston@gds.org 202-295-6180 FAX 202-295-6181
http://www.gds.org

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Some good discussions happening over on the new ISEN ning...

If you haven't found the time to create an account yet please take a look
and maybe give it a try.

The url for the Independent Schools Educators Network is:

http://isenet.ning.com/

257 friendly, kind, welcoming, and thoughtful members as of a few minutes
ago. :-)

Fred

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Head - Computer Department
Rye Country Day School
914-925-4610

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Some good discussions happening over on the new ISEN ning...

If you haven't found the time to create an account yet please take a look
and maybe give it a try.

The url for the Independent Schools Educators Network is:

http://isenet.ning.com/

257 friendly, welcoming, and thoughtful members as of a few minutes ago.
:-)

Fred

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Rye Country Day School
914-925-4610

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Re: Small Schools' Schedules

Kent School is a Pre-K to 8 day school with a little over 200
students. Our middle school has a rotating schedule for their
academic classes but their arts classes (music, art, drama, computer)
and their PE classes meet the same time each day Monday thru
Thursday. (These classes don't meet on Friday) Our middle school head
adjusts this schedule each summer, and somehow always makes it work.
I'd be happy to share our schedule with you if you'd like.


Sincerely,

Jim Landskroener

On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:01 AM, John O'Brien wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I am hoping to hear from smaller K-12 schools (under 400 students)
> who have
> been able to create a rotating academic schedule. We currently
> have a more
> static schedule. Thanks.
>
> John O'Brien
> Saddle River Day School
>
>
>
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> 2007's hottest
> products.
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Google Highly Open Participation Contest

My apologies for the cross-posting:

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) is
"new effort to get young people (ages 13-18) involved
in open source development."

Several projects (Apache Software Foundation, Drupal,
GNOME, Joomla!, MoinMoin, Mono, Moodle, Plone, Python,
SilverStripe) are participating.

For details, see here:
http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/

For those specifically interested in working with
Drupal, the group supporting students working in the
project is here: http://groups.drupal.org/ghop-2007

For students, this is an opportunity to get directly
involved in open source development. For tech
instructors, this is also a chance to get directly
involved in open source development, and to learn more
about a specific project.

It's almost too good to be true!

:)

Cheers,

Bill


____________________________________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.

http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Teaching About Islam Workshop - Dec. 1

THE PROGRESSIVE EDUCATORS' NETWORK PRESENTS: TEACHING ABOUT ISLAM -- A
WORKSHOP WITH SUSAN DOUGLASS Saturday, December 1st, 2007 8:30am -
2:00pm (with optional 2:00-3:00pm session on teaching resources)

We are excited to invite you to this opportunity to learn about basic
beliefs and practices of Islam and to discuss a few contemporary
hot-button issues. We will learn about comparative geography of Muslim
regions over time and what trips students up, like seeing monolithic
regions or distinguishing between religion, language, and culture in
relation to world maps. We will also delve into historical issues
particularly relevant to world cultures, world civilizations, world
history/geography classes at the middle school level and learn about some
cultural interactions between East and West in the arts, poetry, history
of technology & science, math & Islamic art.

Susan Douglass is a renowned educational consultant at the Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown
University (ACMCU). She has an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown
University and a B.A. in History from the University of Rochester, and is
currently enrolled in the doctoral program in history at George Mason
University. During 2006, she served as Senior Researcher for the United
Nations Alliance of Civilizations initiative, and was an Affiliated
Scholar with the Council on Islamic Education for over a decade. She
conducted teacher workshop nationwide for over a decade before developing
the workshop program at ACMCU.

We feel very privileged to have Susan and are very grateful to the Center
for bringing this workshop to us free of charge. Please register ASAP to
Nora Kruk [norak@burgundyfarm.org]. Hosted by: Burgundy Farm Country Day
School, 3700 Burgundy Road, Alexandria, VA. tel. 703-60-3431.

Joseph E. Peacock
Director of Technology
Burgundy Farm Country Day School
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
tel. 703-960-3431, ext. 241
fax: 703-960-5056
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Re: a question about parent access to your building

Our policy is pretty much the same as stated by Kris, but our office is
right at the front door to the school, and there are two people in the
office almost all the time. The office has glass surrounding it so it
should be easy to monitor the comings and goings of visitors. The
problem is that both of our office employees are busy and cannot keep a
constant eye on who is entering and leaving the building.=20
Most parents do sign in and get a visitor's tag during the day, but that
rarely happens either before or after school. =20

Dr. Joan Pearlman
Fifth Grade Language Arts
The Pingry School
jpearlman@pingry.org
=20
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:27 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: a question about parent access to your building

Right now we have fairly open access to parents to come into out
building (we are a Pre K-12 school, in one big building). We have a
receptionist, and parents are supposed to sign in and get a visitors
tag... but this never happens around drop off and pick up and after
school hours, and not consistently during the day. Even if they do sign
in and get a visitor's tag, we let them do this and come in to the
school at any time of day (even if they do not have a specific
appointment with anyone, for instance) We do lock all but one door from
8:15-2:30 to restrict access.

My question is this:

How do you handle parents/visitors? Are they allowed to enter the school
at any time? What is your system? do they need a specific reason to
enter? What about drop off and pick up?


Thanks

Kris Schulte
Dean of Faculty
Stuart Country Day School
1200 Stuart Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
609-921-2330
fax 609-497-0784
kschulte@stuartschool.org

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Re: volunteers needed, narrow criteria

I have a question about this I understand most of the requirement
except for the specific year of graduation. Why will a 1968 graduate
do but not one for 1967 or 1969?

Greg
On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Groesbeck, Sue wrote:

> Peter,
> So close! I meet the 1968 graduate and career educator, but 20 years
> were in public schools (are there others out there with our 36 years
> of
> teaching and administering?). Contact me if you don't find others who
> meet the criteria exactly...
> Sue Groesbeck
> Dr. Susan R. Groesbeck
> Head of School
> Hilton Head Preparatory School
> sgroesbeck@hhprep.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators
> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Gow
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:29 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: volunteers needed, narrow criteria
>
> For a small and presumably fun project I am looking for one or two
> volunteers who meet pretty exactly the following criteria:
>
> You graduated from an independent school in the U.S. in 1968. Better
> still, your school was a boarding school (bonus points for not in New
> England, maybe). You are a career independent school
> teacher/administrator, and you like to think deeply about how these
> schools work and how they are evolving. Perhaps you are even a
> member of
> a
> traditionally underrepresented minority in such schools.
>
> If you or anyone you know (look around your faculty room) fit this
> description and would be interested in helping me out with a
> not-so-burdensome little enterprise this winter, please get in touch
> with
> me, off list (of course).
>
> Many thanks as always to the wonderful ISED populace--Peter Gow
>
> Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
> Beaver Country Day School
> 791 Hammond Street
> Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
> www.bcdschool.org
> Tel. 617-738-2755
> FAX 617-738-2701
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a question about parent access to your building

Right now we have fairly open access to parents to come into out building =
(we are a Pre K-12 school, in one big building). We have a receptionist, =
and parents are supposed to sign in and get a visitors tag... but this =
never happens around drop off and pick up and after school hours, and not =
consistently during the day. Even if they do sign in and get a visitor's =
tag, we let them do this and come in to the school at any time of day =
(even if they do not have a specific appointment with anyone, for =
instance) We do lock all but one door from 8:15-2:30 to restrict access.

My question is this:

How do you handle parents/visitors? Are they allowed to enter the school =
at any time? What is your system? do they need a specific reason to enter? =
What about drop off and pick up?


Thanks

Kris Schulte
Dean of Faculty
Stuart Country Day School
1200 Stuart Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
609-921-2330
fax 609-497-0784
kschulte@stuartschool.org

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Re: volunteers needed, narrow criteria

Peter,
So close! I meet the 1968 graduate and career educator, but 20 years
were in public schools (are there others out there with our 36 years of
teaching and administering?). Contact me if you don't find others who
meet the criteria exactly...
Sue Groesbeck
Dr. Susan R. Groesbeck
Head of School
Hilton Head Preparatory School
sgroesbeck@hhprep.org


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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Gow
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:29 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: volunteers needed, narrow criteria

For a small and presumably fun project I am looking for one or two
volunteers who meet pretty exactly the following criteria:

You graduated from an independent school in the U.S. in 1968. Better
still, your school was a boarding school (bonus points for not in New
England, maybe). You are a career independent school
teacher/administrator, and you like to think deeply about how these
schools work and how they are evolving. Perhaps you are even a member of
a
traditionally underrepresented minority in such schools.

If you or anyone you know (look around your faculty room) fit this
description and would be interested in helping me out with a
not-so-burdensome little enterprise this winter, please get in touch
with
me, off list (of course).=20

Many thanks as always to the wonderful ISED populace--Peter Gow

Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
Beaver Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
www.bcdschool.org
Tel. 617-738-2755
FAX 617-738-2701
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

volunteers needed, narrow criteria

For a small and presumably fun project I am looking for one or two
volunteers who meet pretty exactly the following criteria:

You graduated from an independent school in the U.S. in 1968. Better
still, your school was a boarding school (bonus points for not in New
England, maybe). You are a career independent school
teacher/administrator, and you like to think deeply about how these
schools work and how they are evolving. Perhaps you are even a member of a
traditionally underrepresented minority in such schools.

If you or anyone you know (look around your faculty room) fit this
description and would be interested in helping me out with a
not-so-burdensome little enterprise this winter, please get in touch with
me, off list (of course).

Many thanks as always to the wonderful ISED populace--Peter Gow

Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
Beaver Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
www.bcdschool.org
Tel. 617-738-2755
FAX 617-738-2701
Webmaster: www.IndependentEducator.org

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questions on school records in PK-8 schools

Thanks in advance for any info you can share about your school records
policy in a PK-8 setting...Pam

1. Does your PK-8 school include a section on FERPA (Buckley Amendment)
in your Parent-Student Handbook? If so, what is your policy?

2. Where do you keep records of disciplinary actions/interventions with
students?

3. If the disciplinary records are not kept with the academic ones, how
do you ensure that there is a complete record that provides a comprehensive
look at a child's academic, social, and behavioral progress?

Pamela Shaw

Head of School

Canton Country Day School

3000 Demington Ave. NW

Canton, Ohio 44718

(330) 453-8279 ext 121


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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Re: media analysis/production curriculum

Terry,

In the Baltimore-Washington area, we are well-known for media literacy
instruction. A combined library/technology department, we have a
well-developed US elective that is focused on four themes: the impact of
images, politics and citizenship in a media age, the selling of
addiction and the media in war and peace.

Our librarians work with our tech teachers to teach media, visual and
information literacy thru our MS tech classes and we do discrete lessons
in our LS on advertising and media stereotyping, as developmentally
appropriate.

Media production is part of all these efforts since only by that process
can students experience making editorial and ethical decisions.


Marilyn Meyerson
Head, Library and Technology
The Key School
<mmeyerson@keyschool.org>
(410) 263-9231

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Re: media analysis/production curriculum

Terry,

I know that Horace Mann School has been at the forefront of Media Literacy instruction. They even renamed their Technology Department to include Media. Adam Kenner is their Director of Technology.

Much of their work has been inspired (initially at least) from the New Mexico New Media Association.

- Alex

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Does anyone know of curricula for media analysis and production (a subset
>of media literacy) that's particularly effective for any grades from
>kindergarten to 9th grade?
>
>We're hoping to find something more than disconnected, individual lesson
>plans (of which there are many) on topics related to media.
>
>Thanks in advance -
>Terry Dash
>Director of Technology
>The Pike School
>34 Sunset Rock Road
>Andover, Massachusetts 01810
>ph: 978-475-1197 x294
>fx: 978-475-3014
>
>. . .
>
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+++++++++++++++++++++
Alex Ragone
Director of Technology
Collegiate School
New York, NY
212-812-8695

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Re: media analysis/production curriculum

Please keep this thread public, as we are interested as well. Thank you.

Alecia Berman-Dry, Technology Coordinator
St. John's Episcopal School
Olney, MD
www.stjes.com
My blog: http://ed-tech-axis.blogspot.com/


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Sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:40:49 -0500
Subject: media analysis/production curriculum

> Does anyone know of curricula for media analysis and production (a subset
> of media literacy) that's particularly effective for any grades from
> kindergarten to 9th grade?
>
> We're hoping to find something more than disconnected, individual lesson
> plans (of which there are many) on topics related to media.
>
> Thanks in advance -
> Terry Dash
> Director of Technology
> The Pike School
> 34 Sunset Rock Road
> Andover, Massachusetts 01810
> ph: 978-475-1197 x294
> fx: 978-475-3014
>
> . . .
>
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media analysis/production curriculum

Does anyone know of curricula for media analysis and production (a subset
of media literacy) that's particularly effective for any grades from
kindergarten to 9th grade?

We're hoping to find something more than disconnected, individual lesson
plans (of which there are many) on topics related to media.

Thanks in advance -
Terry Dash
Director of Technology
The Pike School
34 Sunset Rock Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
ph: 978-475-1197 x294
fx: 978-475-3014

. . .

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Re: Art/Technology Festival

We have an Art Festival for our lower school and showcase student's art
work k-5. The PTA assists us in recruiting volunteers but our Art
teacher is responsible for the event. Every child's art is show-cased,
we also showcase different arts related activities which change on an
annual basis but have included an open chess tournament, musical
performances, a small theatrical presentation, Judo demonstration and a
sewing/knitting demonstration. =20

Rahel Rosner
Chief Operating Officer
Solomon Schechter School of Westchester
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Sjogren
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:16 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Art/Technology Festival

Does any of your schools host a Art/Technology Festival during the =20
school year?

If you do, what kind of "events" or "showcases" do you have? Does your =20
parent organization become involved?

We are proposing one for our school and are trying to generate ideas =20
of what we can offer.

Thanks for any insight.

--Lisa
---
Lisa Sjogren
Director of Technology
St. Raphael's Catholic School

763-504-9450, ext. 311
763-504-9460, fax

lisa.sjogren@srsmn.org

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Re: Art/Technology Festival

At Sidwell we have a Sunday festival in January for the whole school
community that includes hands-on crafts and visual art experiences along
with music, dance, and drama performances by students, parents, faculty,
and anyone else connected to the community. It's quite hectic and
over-stimulating, but a wonderful event! It's organized by a determined
group of parents that form an all-school Arts committee. The current
name for the event is "Artrageous", although it was previously called
"Art Attack" - I guess that offended someone.

The committee for this year has invited teachers to find projects
related to their areas of expertise that mix art with other subjects -
we are meeting with math, tech, science, and other teachers to plan
projects for the event that will integrate the arts and our areas.

Jenni Swanson Voorhees
Sidwell Friends School

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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Sjogren
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:16 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Art/Technology Festival

Does any of your schools host a Art/Technology Festival during the =20
school year?

If you do, what kind of "events" or "showcases" do you have? Does your =20
parent organization become involved?

We are proposing one for our school and are trying to generate ideas =20
of what we can offer.

Thanks for any insight.

--Lisa
---
Lisa Sjogren
Director of Technology
St. Raphael's Catholic School

763-504-9450, ext. 311
763-504-9460, fax

lisa.sjogren@srsmn.org

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Art/Technology Festival

Does any of your schools host a Art/Technology Festival during the
school year?

If you do, what kind of "events" or "showcases" do you have? Does your
parent organization become involved?

We are proposing one for our school and are trying to generate ideas
of what we can offer.

Thanks for any insight.

--Lisa
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St. Raphael's Catholic School

763-504-9450, ext. 311
763-504-9460, fax

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Daily Schedules

Hi,

While our current schedule meets many of our needs, as we increase our
enrollment in the US from approximately 300 students to 400 students over
the next 3 years, we are forming a committee to research other scheduling
options. I have been tasked to seek input from other schools of similar
size. So, if you have a daily schedule that you really like, I would
appreciate any input you could provide. Thank you in advance for your
help.


Kelly Laraia
Upper School Technology Support Coordinator &
Database Facilitator
The Potomac School
703-749-6393 or ext x393
klaraia@potomacschool.org


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Re: Antivirus

To second Steven, if your student don't absolutely have to be admins, move =
their rights back to user. Three years ago, when students brought their ow=
n computers to school, but received support from our tech department, we we=
re plagued with spyware problems.

Once we started our tablet program, the students were given only user right=
s and we have absolutely no problems with spyware or viruses. The downside=
is that if software must be installed, we either must install it at the he=
lp desk or we must package it so that it installs itself under the administ=
rator login without the students needing the password. This extra work is =
more than worth it to avoid the problems caused by viruses and spyware. We=
hear almost no complaints from students.

Jessica Sepke
Director of Technology and Information Systems
Saint Mary's School
Raleigh, NC

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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Antivirus

The best suggestion I can give you is to truly evaluate the need for
your students to run as local administrators. Any user running as local
administrator on a Windows PC is going to be subject to such problems.
At Key only IT staff run as local administrators, all other users
(students, faculty, staff) run as regular users. Of course, we're a
desktop school which makes it somewhat easier. Laptop schools have far
more complicated issues to think about when it comes to local admin
access to the PC. So, take a close look at your local admin decisions
and make sure they're necessary. You can get just about any application
to run as a normal user with the right file and registry permissions,
which are easily handled with group policy.

Other mitigating factors you can take:

- Switch your browser to Firefox. My bet is that your problem isn't
with viruses so much as it is with spyware. Firefox is far less prone
to spyware than IE.

- Look into a better AV package. If your current AV package doesn't
handle spyware that well, or is even poor at handling viruses, look at
your alternatives. We run Trend at Key and are generally happy with it.
It has good virus filtering and excellent spyware cleanup, but can be
memory hungry. I recently moved my church to NOD32 by ESET, which has
been working well. It has good spyware handling and some of the best AV
detection rates in the industry. It's also very lite on the client
(about 20MB of RAM).

- Move your users to normal "Users", but give them access to a local
"Administrator" account they can use to install devices or software.
This does introduce problems with running software as a normal user, but
with proper planning these can generally be overcome.

- Use the free antispyware tools to "immunize" your PCs. SpywareBlaster
and Spybot S&D both can load block lists into hosts, IE restricted
sites, and ActiveX KillBit registry keys. These can make a big
difference and, unlike Adware, are truly free for schools.

- Consider segregating your student's computers on to a different VLAN,
and used a policy-based router to allow them access only to the
servers/equipment they NEED to have. Alternatively, if you're a Cisco
shop, you may want to look into NAP.

S
---
Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@keyschool.org>
Computer Network Manager
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland

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Subject: Antivirus

We are struggling with students with Local Admin rights who are
constantly getting viruses/malware. I struggle with it mainly as I know
the potential if they get infected with the right virus/malware we will
or could lose sensitive data. We also struggle with it as our Antivirus
product "Norman" does not delete a lot of viruses. Does anyone have any
recommendations on how to control this issue? Some are recommending we
split the administrative from the academic in terms of Network. All
suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Brian Manns

Network Admin

Culver Academies


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IPhone email and Exchange

We have administrators getting iPhones and have discovered that accessing
our school email through our Exchange server is not as simple as a
Blackberry. Does anyone have experience configuring their Exchange server
and iPhone to work with IMAP?

Doug


-----------------------------------
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Technology Director--Lowell School
dsackett@lowellschool.org
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Brenda,

Our middle school advisors do the following with a 6 day cycle and 3
90-minute blocks daily:

6-7-8:
Daily 10 minute check-in from 8:00-8:10
Morning rotations - 30 minute advisory + 20 minutes break/recess 3x
per cycle
30 minute assembly 1x per cycle + 20 minutes break/recess
30 minute class meeting 1x per cycle + 20 minutes break/recess
50 minute "activity"/minicourse 1x per cycle
15 minutes before and after school student supervision
During all of these times are considered "duty" times - all advisors
on board.

In addition, 6th grade advisors have daily workstudy with advisees
for 30 minutes.
Advisors in grades 7-8 have 2-3 workstudies weekly, but not
necessarily with their own advisees. They are also available during
workstudies to meet with their students and/or advisees.

Most F/T teachers teach 4 sections with 2 preps.
Team leaders teach 3 sections but make up for teaching one less
section by doing a significant portion of administrative work/
planning for their teams.

About once monthly, we have "special schedule days" where grade-level
teams plan fieldtrips, community service activities, and other
similar programming. These are solid student-contact days.

Advisors are the first line of contact for parents with concerns or
questions and facilitate student-teacher communications. They lead a
conference a the start of the year and co-host advisee conferences
with advisees and parents.


Tami Brass
http://www.tech4teaching.org
http://del.icio.us/brasst
tamilb@mac.com
tbrass@spa.edu
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned
find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no
longer exists. -- Eric Hoffer


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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

John,

We have seven 45 minute periods each day (no transition times) in
addition to an hour lunch/recess block and the 30 minute advisory which
includes morning break and snack. We moved to the 30 minute advisory
from 20 minutes that we had last year as we also moved to a 7 day class
cycle.

I'm sure it would take a massive exchange of info to discover how we
differ in minutes per course per year, but I hope this little bit of
explanation helps in some way.

Sherry

Sherry Ward
Director of Technology
Alexandria Country Day School
2400 Russell Road
Alexandria, VA 22301
703-837-1317 sward@acdsnet.or


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Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi,
I work in a middle school (grades 5-8). Our 5th and 6th graders
have a traditional homeroom structure and we have advisory in grades 7 &
8. Everyone meets for 10 minutes each morning and grades 5 & 6 have a
daily afternoon homeroom period (15 minutes). Our advisors and homeroom
teachers conduct conferences with parents twice each year and are the
main point of contact.
We have an advisory period every Monday for 45 minutes. We are
using the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens this year in advisory but
have also used the Middle School Treasury (available through the
National Middle School association). I was wondering what schools 'give
up' when they have longer periods for advisory each day? Our schedule is
very packed with classes and I couldn't find extra time for advisory
without cutting another class.=20

John

John P. Harmon, Ed.D
Highland School
Middle School Director
540-878-2710
540-222-5631 (Cell for emergencies)

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Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our advisors (Grades 6-8) meet with advisees daily for 30 minutes except
Mondays when we have a full middle school meeting.

Sherry

Sherry Ward
Director of Technology
Alexandria Country Day School
2400 Russell Road
Alexandria, VA 22301
703-837-1317 sward@acdsnet.or


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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:18 AM
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Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi!

Our middle school advisory groups meet three times a week, for 15, 25,
and 30 minutes. We believe pretty strongly in the importance of a broad
advisory program for young adolescents.

Our upper school advisory groups meet once every three weeks, for 35
minutes, primarily to review grades and comments (whether interim and
internal, or formal and shared with parents).

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi,
I work in a middle school (grades 5-8). Our 5th and 6th graders
have a traditional homeroom structure and we have advisory in grades 7 &
8. Everyone meets for 10 minutes each morning and grades 5 & 6 have a
daily afternoon homeroom period (15 minutes). Our advisors and homeroom
teachers conduct conferences with parents twice each year and are the
main point of contact.
We have an advisory period every Monday for 45 minutes. We are
using the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens this year in advisory but
have also used the Middle School Treasury (available through the
National Middle School association). I was wondering what schools 'give
up' when they have longer periods for advisory each day? Our schedule is
very packed with classes and I couldn't find extra time for advisory
without cutting another class.=20

John

John P. Harmon, Ed.D
Highland School
Middle School Director
540-878-2710
540-222-5631 (Cell for emergencies)

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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:42 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our advisors (Grades 6-8) meet with advisees daily for 30 minutes except
Mondays when we have a full middle school meeting.

Sherry

Sherry Ward
Director of Technology
Alexandria Country Day School
2400 Russell Road
Alexandria, VA 22301
703-837-1317 sward@acdsnet.or


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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:18 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi!

Our middle school advisory groups meet three times a week, for 15, 25,
and 30 minutes. We believe pretty strongly in the importance of a broad
advisory program for young adolescents.

Our upper school advisory groups meet once every three weeks, for 35
minutes, primarily to review grades and comments (whether interim and
internal, or formal and shared with parents).

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

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Re: ID Tech Camps

I have sent my kids to that camp for the last 2 years. The camp, IMO, is
very good for kids who are highly motivated. I would also question
sending a child for more than one or two weeks (again based on the
motivation of the child). My kids liked it but, tired of it after the 2
weeks. He was talking different classes in each of the weeks. Hope this
helps.

David Held
Director of Technology
Poughkeepsie Day School
360 Boardman Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

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Subject: ID Tech Camps

Does any of you have first-hand knowledge about whether ID Tech Camps
(http://www.internaldrive.com/) provide good summer experiences for very
bright 10-year-olds with lots of enthusiasm for anything related to a
computer?

Thanks in advance -
Terry Dash
Director of Technology
The Pike School
34 Sunset Rock Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
ph: 978-475-1197 x294
fx: 978-475-3014

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Re: ID Tech Camps

They are a quality, well run organization. I know of a bunch of students
and some staff members who had a great time there. Their courses are
pretty cutting edge -robotics, game programming etc. Ah to be a kid in
nerd camp again ....

Tim Cooper
LREI - Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin HS
40 Charlton St.
New York, NY 10014
212.477.5316 ext 364
tcooper@lrei.org

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>Does any of you have first-hand knowledge about whether ID Tech Camps
>(http://www.internaldrive.com/) provide good summer experiences for very
>bright 10-year-olds with lots of enthusiasm for anything related to a
>computer?
>
>Thanks in advance -
>Terry Dash
>Director of Technology
>The Pike School
>34 Sunset Rock Road
>Andover, Massachusetts 01810
>ph: 978-475-1197 x294
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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Brenda - We meet once an 8-day cycle for at least 10 minutes. We meet
as a group on Wednesdays for 25 minutes.
MMA

Michele M. Ament
Mathematics Teacher
Shady Side Academy
423 Fox Chapel Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15238

Phone: (412) 968-3150


>>> Brenda Rilling <rilling@selwyn.ca> 11/26/2007 8:56 AM >>>
Hello everyone,

I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are
scheduled
and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are
currently
looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends",
but
we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher
workload
with the need to meet with advisees.

Thanks in advance,
Brenda


B. Rilling
Selwyn House School
95 Cote St. Antoine
Westmount, QC
H3Y 2H8
(514) 931 9481 x 2281
fax (514) 931 6118
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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

I certainly read this post too quickly this morning. I was a bit too invigorated by the holiday break! I still recommend doodle.ch for advisory/parent meetings, but my post was off topic.

As far as advisory meetings, our Upper School meets in advisory every other week for 30 minutes. Advisors are also encouraged to meet individually with advisees on a regular basis.

Hope this helps,

- Alex


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>Dear Brenda,
> Our Advisory groups meet everyday for 15m in the morning and 15m in the afternoon, but they can also meet during "Break" and "Meeting" for another potential 30m. They also meet bi-weekly for one 30m period.
> Great Question,
> Day
>
> Day Rosenberg
> Director of Upper School
> Far Hills Country Day School
> Far Hills, New Jersey
>
>Jeff Ritter <jritter@sjs.org> wrote:
> Brenda:
>
>At St. John's, our US Advisory meets every morning for 8 minutes or so
>to do announcements and take attendance. We then have extended advisory
>or lunches at least once a month that last from anywhere between 30
>minutes to an hour and a half. Hope this helps!
>
>Jeff Ritter
>Director of Technology
>St. John's School
>2401 Claremont Ln.
>Houston, TX 77019
>713-850-4020
>
>Brenda Rilling wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
>> and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
>> looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
>> we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
>> with the need to meet with advisees.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Brenda
>>
>>
>> B. Rilling
>> Selwyn House School
>> 95 Cote St. Antoine
>> Westmount, QC
>> H3Y 2H8
>> (514) 931 9481 x 2281
>> fax (514) 931 6118
>> www.selwyn.ca
>>
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+++++++++++++++++++++
Alex Ragone
Director of Technology
Collegiate School
New York, NY
212-812-8695

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ID Tech Camps

Does any of you have first-hand knowledge about whether ID Tech Camps
(http://www.internaldrive.com/) provide good summer experiences for very
bright 10-year-olds with lots of enthusiasm for anything related to a
computer?

Thanks in advance -
Terry Dash
Director of Technology
The Pike School
34 Sunset Rock Road
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
ph: 978-475-1197 x294
fx: 978-475-3014

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Evaluation tools

Hi Everyone-

I hope that you had a good Thanksgiving!

We have been charged as a committee with revising our current system
of evaluation of faculty.

We are looking for schools who have competed this same process within
the last year or two using materials from Charlotte Danielson, ISM,
or other prominent
experts in evaluation.

We would like to know your process in formulating your plan.

If you have any products from your work that you would be willing to
share, we would love to see them.


Thanks in advance,
Ginger Kriegel

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our Middle School (grade 5-8) meet 4 times a week for 20 min in the
morning for homeroom, Wed morning for Chapel (division wide announcements,
etc) and once a week on Friday's for Homeroom/Study Hall. Occasionally one
of these can b used for a graderoom (full class meeting). We meet once a
year with advisees to go over grades for 20/advisee and once per year for
student-led parent conferences (incl. parents , advisees and advisor) in
grades 6-8.

Our Upper School meets 2 days a s week for 20 minutes for homeroom, once
per week 20 minutes for Chapel and once a week for either graderoom or
community meeting (division wide performance/presentation). They meet once
a year with advisees to go over grades for 20/advisee.


Imani Romney-Rosa
Middle School Technology Specialist
Packer Collegiate Institute
Brooklyn, NY 11201
PH: 718 250 0339
http://www.packer.edu

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>Hello everyone,
>
>I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
>and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
>looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
>we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
>with the need to meet with advisees.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Brenda
>
>
>B. Rilling
>Selwyn House School
>95 Cote St. Antoine
>Westmount, QC
>H3Y 2H8
>(514) 931 9481 x 2281
>fax (514) 931 6118
>www.selwyn.ca
>
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Re: Small Schools' Schedules

We are slightly larger (just under 600 students PK-12), and we run a 6
day rotating block schedule for MS/US and an independently scheduled LS
day, also on a 6 day rotation. The blocks in the MS/US rotate within the
day except one block intended to accommodate adjunct faculty who have
other jobs and cannot have their classes float through the day. If you
are interested in further detail, feel free to contact me directly.

Andrea Danial
Manlius Pebble Hill School

adanial@mph.net

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Folks,
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have =20
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more =20
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Saddle River Day School =20

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Re: Displays in School Foyers

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>We like it because we don't need a lot of support to run it. You can
>certainly do it for cheaper stringing together different things from
>Powerpoint to Filemaker Slideshows to Keynote, etc.
We are using Keynote for images with some text slides to describe images. Friends decided to forego any announcements, etc and only uses it for pictures of activities, events, art work etc. It has made it simple to use, and I think it has been a wise
decision to use it only for this purpose.


George Orio
Friends Seminary
222 East 16th Street
New York, New York 10003
212.979.5030 x164/fax 212.979.5034
www.friendsseminary.org

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Re: Displays in School Foyers

This may be much simpler than what you are after, but it is working
nicely for our two school situation. The only expense involved is for
the displays, the computers behind or beneath them, and for the
software, in our case, iWork '08.

Our Middle and Upper school lobby display shows events from our
calendar of interest to students and parents (it does not display
faculty information such as department meetings). We have an
alternating Week 1 and Week 2 schedule, so in the US/MS school lobby,
that designation is made manifest. There is a slide for each day
which can be made to scroll nicely when a day has many events. It was
easy to modify a spare and elegant Keynote template to reflect our
Web site design. Powerpoint could probably be made to do something
reasonably similar.

Everything from the Used Skate Sale to college recruiter visits and
the lunch menu is on the MS/US Lobby display. In between the daily
slides, we add recent photos from around school or highlight upcoming
events. As a day goes by, we hide its slide using Apple Remote
Desktop, though I understand this may be done directly without ARD
under Panther. The LS display is a more general weekly display as
they have fewer daily events. We share overlapping moments between
the two displays where appropriate.

The whole thing takes about one hour per week but that work overlaps
with work already being done for the parent and student sections of
our Web site.

Lisa Pedicini
Director of Information Systems/Teacher of Grades 8 and 10 Technology
The Spence School
New York City

At 12:12 AM -0500 11/22/07, A forum for independent school educators wrote:
>I've recently received the following request from a school ...
>
>-----------
>
>"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want to
>put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
>children and parents.
>What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with perhaps
>three or four different things going on together on the screen."
>
>-----------
>
>Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working in
>schools or tried yourselves?
>
>I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a school
>to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't think I
>have a split screen (LAN) solution ...
>
>Appreciated ...
>
>Many thanks
>
>Chris
>ePortfolio <http://www.shambles.net/csmith>www.shambles.net/csmith
>w-shops
><http://www.shambles.net/csmith/workshops>www.shambles.net/csmith/workshops
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Chris Smith : email: <mailto:csmith@csmith.info>csmith@csmith.info
>Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
>The Education Project Asia <http://www.shambles.net>www.shambles.net


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Small Schools' Schedules

Folks,

I am hoping to hear from smaller K-12 schools (under 400 students) who have
been able to create a rotating academic schedule. We currently have a more
static schedule. Thanks.

John O'Brien
Saddle River Day School

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our advisory groups (4-7 students) meet every day for 10 minutes to get dai=
ly announcements and "check in" with the advisor, and we set aside two 45-m=
inute meeting periods (already in the schedule) for advisor-advisee individ=
ual conferences in weeks when students get progress reports and report card=
s (twice a quarter). Preregistering for the next year's or next semester's=
classes is also done during these individual meeting times.

Margaret Grissom

-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.=
EDU] On Behalf Of Day Rosenberg
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:45 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Dear Brenda,
Our Advisory groups meet everyday for 15m in the morning and 15m in the a=
fternoon, but they can also meet during "Break" and "Meeting" for another p=
otential 30m. They also meet bi-weekly for one 30m period.
Great Question,
Day

Day Rosenberg
Director of Upper School
Far Hills Country Day School
Far Hills, New Jersey

Jeff Ritter <jritter@sjs.org> wrote:
Brenda:

At St. John's, our US Advisory meets every morning for 8 minutes or so
to do announcements and take attendance. We then have extended advisory
or lunches at least once a month that last from anywhere between 30
minutes to an hour and a half. Hope this helps!

Jeff Ritter
Director of Technology
St. John's School
2401 Claremont Ln.
Houston, TX 77019
713-850-4020

Brenda Rilling wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
> and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currentl=
y
> looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", bu=
t
> we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
> with the need to meet with advisees.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brenda
>
>
> B. Rilling
> Selwyn House School
> 95 Cote St. Antoine
> Westmount, QC
> H3Y 2H8
> (514) 931 9481 x 2281
> fax (514) 931 6118
> www.selwyn.ca
>
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Re: Displays in School Foyers

We also use Aavelin. It is easy to update and we are satisfied with it.


Thanks

Rahel Rosner
Chief Operating Officer
Solomon Schechter School of Westchester

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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Van Dyk
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:26 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Displays in School Foyers

This may be off the mark, but have you looked at page flakes?
(http://www.pageflakes.com) You would still need hardware to show the
website, but with page flakes you should be able to aggregate at least
some
of the desired news and events on to one page for display.=20

Steve

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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Arvind Grover
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:14 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Displays in School Foyers

Chris, we use an expensive, but decent product by Aavelin
(http://tinyurl.com/2rfwfa). There is a video server behind each plasma
screen and using a PC and the Aavelin software you can set up what you
want to appear on the screen; the software connects to the video server
over the network (and can be accessed remotely if needed). It basically
works like Powerpoint but has options for news and weather feeds and
video depending on which product you buy.

We like it because we don't need a lot of support to run it. You can
certainly do it for cheaper stringing together different things from
Powerpoint to Filemaker Slideshows to Keynote, etc.

Happy to answer questions off or on list,
arvind

---------------------------------------------------------
arvind s grover
Director of Technology
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th St
New York, NY 10021
T. (212) 994-2613
F. (212) 639-9366
E. agrover@hewittschool.org
W. www.hewittschool.org
---------------------------------------------------------


-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:12 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Displays in School Foyers

I've recently received the following request from a school ...

-----------

"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want
to
put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
children and parents.=20
What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with
perhaps
three or four different things going on together on the screen."

-----------

Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working
in
schools or tried yourselves?

I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a
school
to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't
think I
have a split screen (LAN) solution ...=20

Appreciated ...=20

Many thanks

Chris
ePortfolio www.shambles.net/csmith
w-shops www.shambles.net/csmith/workshops
-----------------------------------------------------------
Chris Smith : email: csmith@csmith.info=20
Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
The Education Project Asia www.shambles.net

=20
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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Dear Brenda,
Our Advisory groups meet everyday for 15m in the morning and 15m in the afternoon, but they can also meet during "Break" and "Meeting" for another potential 30m. They also meet bi-weekly for one 30m period.
Great Question,
Day

Day Rosenberg
Director of Upper School
Far Hills Country Day School
Far Hills, New Jersey

Jeff Ritter <jritter@sjs.org> wrote:
Brenda:

At St. John's, our US Advisory meets every morning for 8 minutes or so
to do announcements and take attendance. We then have extended advisory
or lunches at least once a month that last from anywhere between 30
minutes to an hour and a half. Hope this helps!

Jeff Ritter
Director of Technology
St. John's School
2401 Claremont Ln.
Houston, TX 77019
713-850-4020

Brenda Rilling wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
> and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
> looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
> we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
> with the need to meet with advisees.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brenda
>
>
> B. Rilling
> Selwyn House School
> 95 Cote St. Antoine
> Westmount, QC
> H3Y 2H8
> (514) 931 9481 x 2281
> fax (514) 931 6118
> www.selwyn.ca
>
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>
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Re: Displays in School Foyers

This may be off the mark, but have you looked at page flakes?
(http://www.pageflakes.com) You would still need hardware to show the
website, but with page flakes you should be able to aggregate at least some
of the desired news and events on to one page for display.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Arvind Grover
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:14 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Displays in School Foyers

Chris, we use an expensive, but decent product by Aavelin
(http://tinyurl.com/2rfwfa). There is a video server behind each plasma
screen and using a PC and the Aavelin software you can set up what you
want to appear on the screen; the software connects to the video server
over the network (and can be accessed remotely if needed). It basically
works like Powerpoint but has options for news and weather feeds and
video depending on which product you buy.

We like it because we don't need a lot of support to run it. You can
certainly do it for cheaper stringing together different things from
Powerpoint to Filemaker Slideshows to Keynote, etc.

Happy to answer questions off or on list,
arvind

---------------------------------------------------------
arvind s grover
Director of Technology
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th St
New York, NY 10021
T. (212) 994-2613
F. (212) 639-9366
E. agrover@hewittschool.org
W. www.hewittschool.org
---------------------------------------------------------


-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:12 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Displays in School Foyers

I've recently received the following request from a school ...

-----------

"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want
to
put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
children and parents.
What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with
perhaps
three or four different things going on together on the screen."

-----------

Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working
in
schools or tried yourselves?

I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a
school
to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't
think I
have a split screen (LAN) solution ...

Appreciated ...

Many thanks

Chris
ePortfolio www.shambles.net/csmith
w-shops www.shambles.net/csmith/workshops
-----------------------------------------------------------
Chris Smith : email: csmith@csmith.info
Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
The Education Project Asia www.shambles.net


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Re: Displays in School Foyers

Chris, we use an expensive, but decent product by Aavelin
(http://tinyurl.com/2rfwfa). There is a video server behind each plasma
screen and using a PC and the Aavelin software you can set up what you
want to appear on the screen; the software connects to the video server
over the network (and can be accessed remotely if needed). It basically
works like Powerpoint but has options for news and weather feeds and
video depending on which product you buy.

We like it because we don't need a lot of support to run it. You can
certainly do it for cheaper stringing together different things from
Powerpoint to Filemaker Slideshows to Keynote, etc.

Happy to answer questions off or on list,
arvind

---------------------------------------------------------
arvind s grover
Director of Technology
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th St
New York, NY 10021
T. (212) 994-2613
F. (212) 639-9366
E. agrover@hewittschool.org
W. www.hewittschool.org
---------------------------------------------------------


-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:12 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Displays in School Foyers

I've recently received the following request from a school ...

-----------

"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want
to
put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
children and parents.=20
What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with
perhaps
three or four different things going on together on the screen."

-----------

Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working
in
schools or tried yourselves?

I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a
school
to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't
think I
have a split screen (LAN) solution ...=20

Appreciated ...=20

Many thanks

Chris
ePortfolio www.shambles.net/csmith
w-shops www.shambles.net/csmith/workshops
-----------------------------------------------------------
Chris Smith : email: csmith@csmith.info=20
Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
The Education Project Asia www.shambles.net

=20
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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Brenda:

At St. John's, our US Advisory meets every morning for 8 minutes or so
to do announcements and take attendance. We then have extended advisory
or lunches at least once a month that last from anywhere between 30
minutes to an hour and a half. Hope this helps!

Jeff Ritter
Director of Technology
St. John's School
2401 Claremont Ln.
Houston, TX 77019
713-850-4020

Brenda Rilling wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
> and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
> looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
> we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
> with the need to meet with advisees.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brenda
>
>
> B. Rilling
> Selwyn House School
> 95 Cote St. Antoine
> Westmount, QC
> H3Y 2H8
> (514) 931 9481 x 2281
> fax (514) 931 6118
> www.selwyn.ca
>
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>
>
>

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our advisors (Grades 6-8) meet with advisees daily for 30 minutes except
Mondays when we have a full middle school meeting.

Sherry

Sherry Ward
Director of Technology
Alexandria Country Day School
2400 Russell Road
Alexandria, VA 22301
703-837-1317 sward@acdsnet.or


=20

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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill IVEY
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:18 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi!

Our middle school advisory groups meet three times a week, for 15, 25,
and 30 minutes. We believe pretty strongly in the importance of a broad
advisory program for young adolescents.

Our upper school advisory groups meet once every three weeks, for 35
minutes, primarily to review grades and comments (whether interim and
internal, or formal and shared with parents).

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Our fifth grade team meets each week for one full period (40 minutes) to
discuss students and other issues. It is an opportunity to make sure
that all of us are aware of potential problems. It is also an
opportunity to make sure that no child "falls between the cracks."

Joan

Dr. Joan Pearlman
Fifth Grade Language Arts
The Pingry School
jpearlman@pingry.org
=20
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Brenda Rilling
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:56 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hello everyone,

I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are
scheduled
and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are
currently
looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends",
but
we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
with the need to meet with advisees.=20

Thanks in advance,
Brenda


B. Rilling
Selwyn House School
95 Cote St. Antoine
Westmount, QC
H3Y 2H8
(514) 931 9481 x 2281
fax (514) 931 6118
www.selwyn.ca

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi!

Our middle school advisory groups meet three times a week, for 15, 25, and
30 minutes. We believe pretty strongly in the importance of a broad
advisory program for young adolescents.

Our upper school advisory groups meet once every three weeks, for 35
minutes, primarily to review grades and comments (whether interim and
internal, or formal and shared with parents).

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hi, Brenda (et al),

Our middle school advisory groups meet four times a week for 20
minutes/session. Additionally, advisors also proctor their own advisees in
daily study hall. Each student's advisor is also one of their core subject
teachers.

Regards,

Phil

.............
Philip S. Cox
Director of Middle School
The Pingry School
PO BOX 632, Martinsville Road
Martinsville, NJ 08836


On 11/26/07 8:56 AM, "Brenda Rilling" <rilling@selwyn.ca> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
> and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
> looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
> we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
> with the need to meet with advisees.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brenda
>
>
> B. Rilling
> Selwyn House School
> 95 Cote St. Antoine
> Westmount, QC
> H3Y 2H8
> (514) 931 9481 x 2281
> fax (514) 931 6118
> www.selwyn.ca
>
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Re: Frequency of advisor group meetings

I would recommend using doodle.ch for scheduling these types of appointments, or any multiple person appointment for that matter. Thanks to arvind grover for passing that link along.

- Alex

+++++++++++++++++++++
Alex Ragone
Director of Technology
Collegiate School
New York, NY
212-812-8695

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
>and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
>looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
>we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
>with the need to meet with advisees.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Brenda
>
>
>B. Rilling
>Selwyn House School
>95 Cote St. Antoine

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Frequency of advisor group meetings

Hello everyone,

I am interested in how meetings with teacher/advisor groups are scheduled
and the duration of these meetings (our TAG committee and we are currently
looking at these questions). I know, the answer is often "it depends", but
we are worried about over scheduling and also balancing teacher workload
with the need to meet with advisees.

Thanks in advance,
Brenda


B. Rilling
Selwyn House School
95 Cote St. Antoine
Westmount, QC
H3Y 2H8
(514) 931 9481 x 2281
fax (514) 931 6118
www.selwyn.ca

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Re: Displays in School Foyers

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Displays in School Foyers

I've recently received the following request from a school ...

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"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want to
put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
children and parents.
What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with perhaps
three or four different things going on together on the screen."

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Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working in
schools or tried yourselves?

I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a school
to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't think I
have a split screen (LAN) solution ...

Appreciated ...

Many thanks

Chris
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Location independent access was Re: Antivirus

We run Novell Netware as our network system. We=20
use Novell iPrint for printing over the Internet.=20
We liked it so much that we go rid of all of our=20
traditional print queues and now all of our=20
printing goes through iPrint, even if people are=20
loggied in on our network. File access we do with=20
Novell NetStorage, which allows access through=20
either a standard browser or through a WebDAV=20
connection. I think Active Directory also has=20
that capability. Our teacher laptops have Novell=20
iFolder, which constantly syncs a folder on the=20
laptop with our server, so if the laptop dies, computer files are safe.

One of my goals has been to make HOW people=20
access our network resources independent of WHERE=20
they are--Location independent access. (If you're=20
thinking continuity of service in the event of a=20
catastrophe, or school closure, that's part of=20
it.) And it's made me question why I have a=20
traditional network at all. :-) We just signed=20
contracts with Veracross for our student=20
information system and Finalsite for our website,=20
both of which are hosted off campus. Our Moodle=20
installation is hosted off campus as well. I'd=20
move our file storage off campus if I thought we=20
had the bandwidth but 4MB isn't quite enough to=20
make me do that yet. We also use a service for=20
our authoritative DNS and backup MX, and a different one for antispam.

I'm also not ready to try to convince people to=20
move our financial system to a hosted solution=20
like Veracross, but I'll look at that next year.=20
All of this movement frees up my staff to focus=20
on the things that we absolutely must do on=20
campus and improves support for our teachers and=20
students. It may seem a little pricier, but I'm a=20
believer because it does improve reliability. I=20
also have a friend in Hawaii who created a=20
business based on providing all support for=20
independent schools and he is expanding as people find value in the model.

Derrel

At 05:17 PM 11/20/2007 -0500, Manns, Brian wrote:
>How did you do the files and printing through the internet?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for independent school educators
>[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Derrel Fincher
>Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:12 PM
>To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Re: Antivirus
>
>We just segregated our network into three VLANS through our switches.
>The wireless portal for our students is on a separate VLAN and they
>cannot even see our network, but we have set up our network to allow
>them to access files and printing through the Internet.
>
>Derrel

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Re: Antivirus

How did you do the files and printing through the internet?

-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Derrel Fincher
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:12 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Antivirus

We just segregated our network into three VLANS through our switches.=20
The wireless portal for our students is on a separate VLAN and they=20
cannot even see our network, but we have set up our network to allow=20
them to access files and printing through the Internet.

Derrel
At 10:50 AM 11/20/2007 -0500, Dickenson, Steven wrote:
>We do not have a split network. I have seen that configuration before,
>although it's becoming more rare.
>
>S
>---
>Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@keyschool.org>
>Computer Network Manager
>The Key School, Annapolis Maryland
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for independent school educators
>[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Manns, Brian
>Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:48 PM
>To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Re: Antivirus
>
>Do you have a split network in terms of Administration/Academic? I have
>heard this a lot.
>
>Brian

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