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| Friday, November 13, 2009 8:47 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I came across this package which is a free and allows your machine to 'become' the Lunar Rover with NASA graphics and interface. Pretty cool and could be fun on a projector. The free [ http://www.frassanito.com/RoverSIM ]Lunar Electric Rover Simula |
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| | Slight formatting errors in OSA update... | | | | | Friday, November 6, 2009 8:44 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Attendance call followup... |
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| Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:44 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| We are getting close to our first week of auto-attendance calls. It seems to be going well. I made an adjustment this morning based on the request to only have the calls go to the home phone and not day phones. If anyone has any additional request |
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| Attendance calls |
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| Friday, October 16, 2009 9:55 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| In about 18 minutes we will be having our first launch of attendance calls going out. The calls will be made to all students marked absent for BOTH first and second period. If the teacher does not mark them then it will not send a call. This proce |
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| Tech at OSA |
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| Monday, October 12, 2009 7:54 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I know this subject line is a lofty one. I am reflecting on one small aspect of the tech offering at OSA. In other schools I noted that the Tech Director's often push the tech offering and force the spotlight on the ways in which it is enhancing th |
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| Internet explorer not allowing for subscribing to Powerschool |
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| Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:37 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Subscribe link for 'Class Assignments With My Scores and Final Grades' does not work properly with Internet Explorer Summary The Public Portal Subscribe link for Class Assignments With My Scores and Final Grades does not work properly with Inte |
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| Emergency preparedness... |
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| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:30 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| One of the side projects I am involved with is emergency preparedness both at home and at OSA. I have been attending various meetings as part of a Charter school association group to further develop OSA'as emergency preparedness plan. At this lates |
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| Give yourself credit... |
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| Monday, September 21, 2009 1:10 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I find periodically when giving training sessions that the faculty will self-deprecate themselves on their perceived lack of technical ability. I try and remind them that skillls are ALWAYS relative and that they have made a lot of progress already |
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| Learning opportunity... |
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| Friday, September 18, 2009 8:49 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Well I am finding that in this transition to a different technology approach that my personality has butting heads with it. My tendency is to create routines/processes and this transition means many of my approaches to solving problems might be adju |
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| Thank you Theatre Dept... |
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| Friday, September 11, 2009 2:10 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| The Theatre dept actors guild held an appreciation meeting for the admin staff this afternoon. Each of the students provided 12 cookies translating to 83 dozen 'thank you's I am so proud of those students and Mr. Berry for orchestrating the event. |
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| Seniors can come by to get their computers... |
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| Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:06 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Bring your check/money order/cash and I can issue computers today! |
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| Welcome Back All! |
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| Monday, August 31, 2009 9:45 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Great to see you!! |
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| Tech program... |
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| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:31 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Ok seniors will be issued laptops has historically been done at OSA. Bring in your checks - $150 to cover the insurance. All other grades will have access via teacher computer sets. I am preparing the teacher sets now. Hopefully by mid-Sept you sh |
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| Teacher resources... |
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| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:30 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.learner.org http://ali.apple.com |
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| Some changes down the road... |
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| Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:40 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| In the light of the budget crunch from the state we are having to evaluate the most effective distribution of the laptops to benefit the most students. We will send out notices when the decisions are finalized. Be patient with us as we go through t |
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| Completion of 2009 |
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| Friday, June 12, 2009 8:24 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Well as Mr. Harris mentioned - this was quite the year for OSA. Moved into the Fox, received the distinguished school award, and graduated Class 2009 on the Fox stage. My mantra for much of the last 6 years at OSA was "Get them into the Fox... |
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| Zendaya's movie presentation |
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| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:00 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| [Image:Zendaya_movie.mp4] 12 MB - lower resolution [Image:Zendaya_movie.mov] 53 MB - full resolution |
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| Free 3d rendering software |
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| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:03 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I came across this package which is free for non-commercial uses and can be used to render 3d environments. http://www.vue7.com/ple/ |
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| OSAir - Internet radio |
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| Monday, June 1, 2009 7:18 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| http://osaradiostation.blackapplehost.com |
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| Student files maintained on existing laptops... |
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| Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:22 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I am revisiting the plan to leave the stduent files intact on the laptops over the summer and reissue the same laptops back to the students. This would involve reimaging only the senior laptops but the Juniors could maintain their files. If you hav |
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