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PAT Testing: Audacity to Record, Upload to Blackboard

By On March 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

For world language PAT testing, use the following steps for successful recording and uploading. You can use this as a script to walk your students through the process. Powering On and Readying the Headset Assign individual machines to individual students to eliminate variables. Start with the machines totally powered down, as they should be coming [...]

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Yorktown Update: November 4, 2011

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Student Log-Ins

While well-intentioned, the practice of having Student machines go straight to the desktop and having students authenticate to the web, network drives, cloud resources, etc after that is not working well. The secondary ITCs have all agreed that this needs to be overhauled, along with Student machine permissions involving changing desktop settings [...]

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Yorktown Update: October 31, 2011

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To my beloved Pagan friends, I wish you a wonderful and peaceful Good Samhain. To those setting out to trick-or-treat for Halloween, remember to stay safe, wear reflective materials near roads, and to travel in groups and preferably with or near an adult that you trust. Together, regardless of your plans, let’s have a [...]

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Yorktown Update: October 18, 2011

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There has been a tremendous amount of progress in resolving remaining outstanding technology-related issues, and a clear shift from technical priorities to instructional priorities. I hope this trend continues! I will be restructuring the tag clouds for this blog to better reflect a set of topics. That should help people search for salient information. On [...]

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Yorktown Update: September 21, 2011

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Google Calendar Updated

The Google Calendars for the lab and laptop cart reservation system have been updated to include, beneath the reservation slots, a display of who has current reservations for each resource. Just scroll down on each page and you’ll find the Existing Reservations calendar.

Please carefully consult this as we continue to work [...]

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Yorktown Update: September 14, 2011

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If you don’t like random trivia or historical facts, scroll down to the horizontal line to skip my KDR nonsense.

Happy Unbirthday, America!

Who wrote The National Anthem of the United States of America? If you said “Francis Scott Key,” you’re the victim of inaccurate childhood civics lessons! The National Anthem is a piece of music? [...]

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Yorktown Update: August 31, 2011

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I know we’re down to the wire, and a lot seems (is!) up in the air. Here’s the latest information I have for you:

Critical Priority: Instructional Software

I spoke directly with the Office of Instructional and Innovative Technologies at the Ed Center today, and it appears that there will be a solution implemented sometime [...]

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