From the Tech Department
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Creating a Good Email Signature
Your email signature with a school email account should provide basic information about yourself, the sender. It is improper to use it as an opportunity to express points of view (save that for your personal email account). Your school email account is one that should always be used in a mature and professional way. Here are tips to create an email signature that is professional, informative and easy to read. Keep it as short as you can while providing all of the information you deem most important (four lines is the accepted standard).Condense information into fewer lines by using pipes (|) or colons (::) to separate the text.Remember that simple plain text is best; skip colors, special fonts and graphics ...
Posted Apr 10, 2012 1:07 PM by James O'Hagan
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Lots of "How Do I"
As of the writing of this blog post, it has been 31 days since the iPads have been issued to students. There are a number of "How Do I" articles and posts that can help you be more productive in your day. You can find "How Do I?" from the column to the left of this post at tech.fvdistrict221.org or by clicking here.
Posted Dec 15, 2011 6:38 AM by James O'Hagan
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iPad User Guide for iOS 5
If you have not downloaded the iPad User Guide for iOS 5, it is a valuable resource that is completely free. You will need the an Apple ID and the iBooks app in order to download this app, which is also free to download from the App Store.Create an Apple ID without a Credit CardiBooksiPad User Guide for iOS 5
Posted Oct 17, 2011 8:15 AM by James O'Hagan
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Who Uses Google Apps?
Over 4 million businesses and 40 million users use Google Apps (see the complete list) on a daily basis. Forrestville Valley School District as of October 12, 2011 through Google is providing storage of ~42 gigabytes of staff email data in a secure location, but has been given the capacity to store, for all students grades 6-12 and staff, ~13.5 terabytes (1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes) of data. To purchase a 13.5 terabyte mail server system, make it secure and make it reliable, would be severely cost prohibitive.In education, some of the premier institutions have made the switch to Google Apps for Education. And this list does not include a wide number of K-12 school districts ...
Posted Oct 12, 2011 8:35 AM by James O'Hagan
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Migration to Gmail Complete
Over this past weekend, over 548,000 emails, over 16,000 calendar events and over 11,000 contacts were migrated from our old Exchange 2003 server to Google. The process almost twenty hours to complete. Thank you for the patience with this whole process.
Posted Oct 10, 2011 7:20 AM by James O'Hagan
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