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| | Fun article from 1911 on the world in 2011 | | | | | Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:15 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Useful resources |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:16 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Great Idea Tracy. Some Blogs/sites I follow just about everyday to get us started: Forbes Leadership (http://www.forbes.com/leadership/) LinkedIn's Higher Education Today (http://www.linkedin.com/today/higher_education?trk=tod-ind-tnav-68) Harvard |
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| Known universe... |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:15 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Cool video showing the known universe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U |
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| OSA Rythym is Back! |
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| Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:08 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I will be making some announcements regarding OSA's own student radio - OSA Rythym! Check back here or on FB for the blasts! Hit me up if you are interested in hosting a show or recording your own piece and having it streamed to the world! |
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| Camera captures speed of light!!! |
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| Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:15 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/13/mit-camera-system-captures-speed-of-light/?hpt=hp_t2 |
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| Updated mission statement |
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| Monday, November 28, 2011 9:28 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Hello all - Got the updated mission statement for OSA! Oakland School for the Arts balances an immersive arts program with a comprehensive academic curriculum, providing students unique opportunities for learning, innovation, expression and personal |
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| PowerTeacher email function... |
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| Monday, October 31, 2011 2:09 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| It appears the issue we were experiencing with emailing from powerteacher has been resolved with our recent update to 7.03. This meant some delayed emails were sent out last night. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Mr. Smith |
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| Reminder to check sources... |
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| Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:29 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Just as a reminder - only download software directly from the company's website and not from a link in a supposed email from the company. Always be mindful of entering your username/password to install software.... F-Secure documents another variat |
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| Goodbye Steve Jobs... |
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| Thursday, October 6, 2011 8:32 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| You have been an inspiration and great visionary. I only wish I had gotten a chance to meet you on the few occasions when I might have had the opportunity. Rest in peace and sending my best to your family. |
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| Note for 10/4 |
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| Tuesday, October 4, 2011 9:16 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I am monitoring the Dept of Ed's presentation on assessments and testing around Common Core, via an iPad2 FWIW and watching the live blog about Apple's event. Tech feeds galore! |
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| Useful video conversion utility... |
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| Monday, October 3, 2011 7:36 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Reggie Ashworth's [ http://www.reggieashworth.com/vidconvert ]VidConvert 1.1.2 can convert video to iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, QuickTime, .mp4, DivX, Xvid, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, .vob, .m4a, .mp3, and .wav formats and includes Normal and High quality pre |
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| Security concern... |
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| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:21 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Intego reports that a Mac Trojan horse attacks Little Snitch, an important anti-malware utility: [ http://blog.intego.com/2011/09/26/intego-security-memo-%E2%80%93-september-26-2011-mac-flashback-trojan-horse-masquerades-as-flash-player-installer-p |
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| Arts Management is now Production Design |
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| Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:44 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Congrats to Production Design emphasis!! |
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| Middle School Media lab is available.... |
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| Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:18 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| The Middle School Media lab is available for check out. Please book the times on the Computing Lab Calendar (MS) and work with Mr. Oz on any logistical concerns. This should function as all the other thin client stations. Mr. Smith |
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| Final checks before the students arrive.... |
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| Friday, August 26, 2011 8:11 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I still need to put in the new students into the thin client server, purchase and install the new Middle School media lab, and get some computers ready for employees but overall I am ready! Looking forward to seeing the students. |
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| Getting ready for the 2011-2012 year! |
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| Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:05 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I have some fun projects awaiting me on 8/8 - move the thin client server to a new RAID configuration, migrate Powerschool to a hosted environment, and update our servers. I am running Lion on my Mac and while I would not recommend it for all users |
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| End of the year - backup your files! |
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| Monday, May 23, 2011 10:25 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| We are rapidly approaching the end of the year so please inform/remind students who have been using the thin clients to backup their files. I will be doing a major upgrade to the thin client server this summer and while I will be trying to keep all |
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| Online textbook links and resources |
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| Thursday, May 5, 2011 7:52 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Andronic http://go.hrw.com/gopages/ma.html http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.edhelper.com/algebra.htm http://www.hippocampus.org/ |
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| Good stuff... |
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| Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:56 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Yesterday was a good day in the tech office - a parent is donating 15 thin clients and supporting equipment and we had a film director on skype while students watched the film. All the while the technology just supported it - that is how it should b |
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| High School student email accounts.... |
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| Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:37 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I realized that some of you might not be aware but although we have limited access to computer stations this year - all HS students still have email accounts for their school use. The login for their FirstClass accounts has been set to exactly the s |
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| WASC student survey |
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| Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:48 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.oakarts.org/surveys/Students/student_survey.php |
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| Interesting article on blogging in classroom |
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| Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:59 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.dhirajmurthy.com/?p=229 |
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| Hmmm-macbook air - on flash memory... |
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| Wednesday, October 20, 2010 11:51 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Me like. http://www.apple.com/macbookair |
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| Hompolar... |
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| Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:29 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Came across some examples of basic hompolar motor examples.... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=homopolar&aq=f |
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| Microsoft works file format... |
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| Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:38 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Occasionally we have users bring in files that they ave typed up at home in Microsoft Works. Unfortunately the Mac version of Microsoft office cannot open these files. The user needs to click Save as and choose MS Word format. This will avoid that |
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