New Summer PD Schedule Released - Soita

Soita has released their new Summer Schedule for PD training.

"Learn with it, leave with it" workshops include some of the following:

Intro to Digital Cameras
Intro to iPods
Making Music with Garageband
An iPod Touch, the Internet, and You!
Airliner by SMART Technologies
Intro to the SMART Document Camera
Intro to the Digital Camcorder
Intro to Flip Video
Netbooks, Cloud Computing, and Open Source Software
Integrating a GPS into Your Classroom

-And More-

We are members here in the district. While we don't have any PD funds available to send staff to these workshops at this time, I would encourage you to attend yourself if you're interested in obtaining any of these products for personal use.

You can view full schedule by clicking here.

If it sounds too good to be true....

If you received the following e-mail lately, it's a hoax.

"I am Mr. James Lynnwood our client died in air crash along with his family, (US$14.7M)left behind in our bank,nobody has put application for the claim. I am asking for your asisstant since I have all the details for you to claim the Funds,if you are interested forward to me your names, cell, Phone/fax, profession,age and country and His Name is Dr. George Brumley. You can confirm http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Mr. James Lynnwood."

Track Swine Flu via Google Maps

It's tough for laymen to know just how serious (or not) the current outbreak of swine flu will become. If you're interested in tracking swine flu cases there is now a Google maps app to help.

Click here to view.

How Can I Tell If My PC Is Infected?

I've been getting this question a lot about the Conficker Worm that everyone has been hearing about so much lately. One of the easiest ways to tell if your PC is infected with the Conficker Worm is to attempt to browse out to web sites that offer security prevention against the worm:

microsoft.com
sophos.com
norton.com
symantec.com
kaspersky.com

These are just a few. If you can access these web sites you should be in good shape.

Also, don't foget to run an online virus scanner to make sure as well. You can run this one from Microsoft's web site:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?s_cid=sah

If you're unable to access that tool, or any anti-virus web sites but can browse to other pages on the web, your PC may be infected.