Take Notice
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:06AM Wow, it has been really busy for me these last few weeks. I would like to thank you all again for the sympathy you showed to my family after the passing of my Father in Law. Again, it shows that your caring helps make you the best faculty and staff in the world!
Powerteacher
As far as I am concerned the launch of PowerTeacher was successful. You were prepared for this rollout and it made the training go very smoothly. I know it has been a pain putting the third quarter grades into the gradebook but know I appreciate the hard work you are putting into this effort and wish I could give you more of a reward.
Security Issues
Recently I sent an e-mail about regarding security concerns with your school laptops. Here are some of the issues I touched on in that e-mail.
- You are financially responsible for your laptop. If anything happens to your laptop in your car or home, your respective insurance plans must cover the replacement cost and you will have to pay any out of pocket expenses your insurance does not cover. At school, the laptop needs to locked in a secure area and there needs to be evidence of forced entry before the district’s insurance will cover the loss.
- Be careful of where you surf on the Internet while away from the school. Our tech gurus have discovered most viruses affecting laptops were picked up by teachers surfing websites and doing downloads they should not be doing at home. The usual answer to a virus is reimaging the laptop.
- It is forbidden to use your personal credit card to make purchases on your school laptop. The district tech folks are serious about this and they can find out if you did.
- Bottomline – You should only use your district laptop for work and use a personal computer for anything else.
Friday, I will be briefed on more security concerns and will share this with you later.
Odds and ends
- I hope your students do very well on their Writing PASS test this week. I have a great group of students to work with.
- Ms. Cavalluzzi’s honor classes are about finished with their Iditarod project. They are using a wiki to create webpages as travel brochures of Alaska. Hopefully, I will be able to share some of these sites with you. Some of them are very creative.
- Got some great projects coming up with Ms. Merrick and Ms. Wayland. Looking forward to working with those outstanding teachers and their students.
Hope everyone has a great week.

















