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What's
Happening This Summer?
Replacement
of all student stations at Starke, Smith and Dirksen
Update
all LC labs (IBM 340's only) with re-purposed student workstations
(IBM 300's)
Ghost
all student workstations and clean them inside and out
Set
up Wee Wilson Computers and Phones
Update
Teacher Workstations - These machines will not be ghosted.
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Summer
Ghosting -
What
does it mean for you?
This summer,
the Tech Interns will be ghosting all student workstations. Please
back up any information you want to keep. As the time approaches,
we will send out directions on how to perform a backup.
Teacher workstations
will not be ghosted, but some updates will be installed. While this
does not require us remove any information from your computer, you
should be backing up all files on a regular basis.
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Home
Buy Info
We are currently
seeking bids for the Home Buy Computers. At the end of May, we will
send out specific information for those staff members who are interested
in purchasing or participating in a lease-purchase agreement.
There will be
2 options to choose from - a standard user and power user option.
We will also offer an optional flat screen monitor upgrade and a
printer.
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Option
1 - Standard Computer
Pentium
III - 1GHz PC
20 GB Hard drive
128 MB RAM
Integrated Network Card
52x CD-Rom
Optical Mouse
Windows XP/Office XP
17" Monitor
56K Internal Modem
Speakers
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Option
2- Power User Computer
Pentium
4 - 1.8GHz PC
80 GB Hard drive
512 MB Ram
Integrated Network Card
16x DVD-Rom and 24x/10x/40x CD-RW
Optical Mouse
Windows XP/Office XP
17" Monitor
56 K Internal Modem
Speakers
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Optional
Enhancements
17"
FLAT PANEL Display with Speakers
HP Deskjet 940C or Comparable
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Digital
Video Training/Cameras
Through our
partnerhsip with ISU, we have acquired a digital video camera for
each building as well as one copy of Adobe Premiere 6.0. On April
26th, we hosted training for each of the LC teachers on the operation
of the digital video camera and editing digital video in Premiere.
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Virus
Summary
Here
is a list of some of the viruses we have "caught" since
we implemented Norton as our virus scan software.
- Backdoor
- Gotcha
- Leningrad
- Magistr
- and many
more
Since
February - we have discovered 770 instances of viruses on District
108 computers.
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Spam
Assassin
Junk email got
you down? SpamAssassin
is an option tool you can use to tag your spam as spam. Once the
mail is tagged, you can filter it to another mailbox.
To sign up -
visit our website
http://mail.pekin.net/spamassassin/
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Audit
Software
AuditWizard
has been fully implemented across the district. We have collected
data and are current on all our district wide licenses for software.
Thank your for your cooperation!
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Closing
the Gap
This
year, we took part in the Illinois State Board of Education's
Closing the Gap Initiative. As part of this initaitive, we received
$143,602 from the state, contributed a district match of $54,568
for a grand total of $198,170. With the money we were able to
purchase the following:
- additional
licenses for library automation software and a new client for
library searches
- 2 ATM switches
- upgrades for the network
- server replacement
for RYHS - Samba
- backup server
for all district information
- UPS Protection
for Data Closets
- Mobile Training
Lab for Professional Development
- Student Workstations
Our purchases
were based on goals in our Technology Plan Update. These goals will
also be a part of our District Long Range Plan.
- Enhance community
communications and collaboration.
- Extensive
daily student use of technology tools to create knowledge for
themselves and to share it with others.
- Teachers,
administrators, school library personnel, and support staff master
technological skills needed to perform their work.
- Manage information
and data to enhance decision-making.
- Provide fiscal
and human resources to assist in adding, maintaining, and replacing
technology.
If you would
like more information about our current Tech Plan - please visit
the following:
http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/techplan/hub/index.html
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