The first TIG meeting for the new school year 2006-07 was held at the Central Intermediate Unit #10 on October 20, 2006 with new chairman Tom Rowles, IT Facilitator of IU 10. The topics of the meeting dealt with the CPBN (Central Pennsylvania Broadband Network). All of the IU 10's schools has been connected and tested except for State College School District, as the fiber link is still under construction. Techs attending the meeting included the school districts of Clearfield, Curwensville, Penns Valley, West Branch, Philipsburg-Osceloa, and Harmony along with the West Branch Technology Center of CIU-10 via video conference through the regional WAN of Sting Communications.
It was mentioned that each school district will receive video conference equipment of their choice through CPBN budget including the two school districts of Clearfield and Curwensville as they will be in the project by year three.
The group was asked to think of what they would like to have for Professional Development in their district and to let Tom know or to send that information to Mary Mingle of the WBTC.
Tom informed the group that training for Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Certified Novell Administrator, Cisco Certified Security, and Cisco Certification is being offered to the techs of the IU and school districts at the South Hills Business School with funds from the CPBN. The testing will have to be covered by their own school districts budget. This will begin on year two of the project starting January 1, 2007.
Next on the agenda was information on eRate and all techs know what and when their due dates are for submission.
We touched base on the PATI survery that the teachers and principals of the districts are to fill out by November 17, and that Phase 2 should be completed by December 8. All were in agreement of what has to be done.
The next meeting will be on November 17, 2006 at the CIU-10 and again video conference with the WBTC as they will have Magpie there to discuss Internet 2 and what we need training for. By then, all districts of IU 10 will be online with Sting and through the regional WAN can communicate with IU's 8 and 9 and we will have an update on how the connections are and if there is anything else that needs to be done.

I was just wondering if anyone knows what program or where the file comes from that is named ~ and nothing else. I can't seem to get any headway on the web to figure out what it is.

Just wanted to know if anyone was using any inventory and/or help desk software and find out how they liked it if they were.

I am trying to receive information concerning what technical support positions that various districts have and obtain job descriptions for the positions that school districts have. I would appreciate obtaining copies of any job descriptions and/or salary scales that would apply to any of the job titles below: Technology Coordinator / Network Administrator / Network Technician / Computer Technician / A/V Coordinator / Helpdesk Support / Elecronics Repair Technician / Computer Consultant / Application Support Specialist

As promised, here is CASD's AUP.

http://www.clearfield.org/distinfo/aup.htm

Notice the use of the term "technology resources." That can pretty much apply to anything we want.

Feel free to copy any part of this. I recommend having your solicitor proof it for you. You will notice the legalese our's added.

The TIG meeting scheduled for Friday May 14th has been cancelled.

A combination TIG/IMS meeting will be held at CIU#10 on April 16, 2004, in the Clinton Room beginning at 10AM. A continental breakfast will be served prior to the meeting a 9:00AM. Apple Computers will be here for a presentation at 1:00PM.

Apple's presentation will include information on Powerschool, Macintosh compatibility with Windows and Novell networks, Xserve/Xserve raid solutions, and an overview of curriculum mobile labs, Apple product updates/announcements, Macworld 2004, and Macintosh OS X.E server and client updates. An open question and answer period will follow. Please fill free to invite any of your district's curriculum staff that may be interested.

Please contact Prudence Peterson at the IMS office by noon on April 14, 2004, so we can obtain an accurate lunch count.

I am having a problem with one of my Windows 2000 Servers. It is a PIII 866MHz, 512RAM running Win2K SP4 and all current patches and fixes. It is now getting a "STOP0x000007F Unexpected Kernel Mode Trap error". I have tried all recommended fixes from Microsoft short of replacing the hardware or reinstalling the software. It will start in Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Network support. Has anyone else run into this problem? Thanks,

I am looking for a tool to sniff/scan a network and report on high bandwidth usage from individual nodes. I am having alot of trouble tracking down what nodes are taking up all the bandwidth.

Thanks.

The date for the next TIG meeting has been changed due to scheduling conflicts. The meeting will take place on Wednesday May 21 not May 9.