This time of year I start getting questions from parents of new students about our Internet filtering here at DCHS and how they can filter the Internet at home. I blogged about our filtering solution at DCHS here. I believe that all parents should take great care at home to limit access to the Internet.
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This is the second in a series of posts about the iPod Touch in the classroom. The first post talked about using the device for Internet research. In this post I will look at online testing.
Online testing at DCHS is done using RenWeb, our student information system. I will acknowledge from the start that there [...]
I have had RenWeb installed on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server for about 8 months. I have not run into many problems with it until recently. The Terminal Server has become a great asset for us as we add more Macs to the network and continue to support older PCs.
RenWeb is not designed to run [...]
I am going to start a short series of posts on our use of the iPod Touch in the classroom. Now that we have a functional case and Google Calendar setup so that our teachers can reserve the lab we have the opportunity to evaluate how the iPod integrates into the classroom. The first topic [...]
We recently purchased 23 iPod Touches to test in the classroom as we consider a one-to-one program from next year. Along with the iPods I was looking to purchase a case that would allow us to protect the iPods as we moved them between classrooms and to charge and sync the iPods. I was very [...]
I just got done walking through the school as I try to do at least once a day to see how technology is being used in the classroom, and I was impressed by what I saw. Technology was at work in every classroom and not one of the classes was a technology specific class. Our [...]
I am working on updating the DCHS Technology Plan. This section in on the goals and strategies and has been rewritten for this year. Let me know what you think.
Goals and Strategies
Students
Goal: To engage and encourage students to use technology to be more productive learners. To provide students with technology skills that will enable [...]
We use a combination of IPCop and OpenDNS for internet filtering at DCHS and some of the other schools we support. Both are free solutions and the combination of both products provides for a quality filter.
IPCop installs on most standard low end PCs, you just need to make sure that you have 2 network cards. [...]