For the second half of the 2012-2103 school year, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching an Introduction to Game Design course at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Prior to this class, my teaching experience was limited to summer professional development classes …read more
Dear Seniors, First of all, congratulations on your pending graduation. Well earned! The laptops you are currently using are part of a laptop lease that has recently expired. Typically, SCH would re-use these laptops in other parts of the school …read more
Image Credit Following a few weeks of considerable twitter dialogue, you might be at a point where your account is created—now you’re looking for next steps. I’m tempted to write another post on WHY we should all continue cultivating our …read more
What an amazing learning experience the 2012-2013 school-year has been. Craving more responsibility, with increased time dedicated to student and faculty development, a growth mindset is a phrase I’ve become familiar with. Reflecting on the year, I understand why these …read more
I wanted to let you know that the legacy GoogleApps domains for @chestnuthillacademy.org and @springside.org have officially been deleted (old user data, contacts, google docs, etc…) All data was migrated to the new site in the summer of 2011 so no worries …read more
Friends, please note that as you come back to campus over Spring break and after, there is a server change that you should be aware of. Users of the file server called iDisk …read more
Whr we are taking our school store @schacademy http://t.co/4SjXk9bv http://t.co/zsD0WsZn # @VincentDay My mantra is it's all about UX for everything, from parent meet ups, to how we answer the phone. #UX principles for everything. # @VincentDay nice! # Network …read more
Hello Fellow Tweeters! We want the @SCHAcademy & @TeamSCHift Twitter accounts to showcase all that is wonderful in our school & with our technology so we are changing the way we tweet, making it possible for you to tweet to …read more
Palo Alto Networks has released its latest stable version of it’s GlobalProtect VPN client, 1.2.2. If you currently use the GlobalProtect VPN to access SCH internal network resources such as Education Edge, you …read more
Colleagues, The SCHift Team is planning partial network downtime on 3.22 and 3.27. In each case, GoogleApps access from off campus will be working normally. This could be a good opportunity to work remotely. If you are here over break, …read more
It’s been a few months folks and I’m thrilled to put the pen to paper to write a new Daytime post as we barrel down on beginning of spring…more importantly, SPRING BREAK. My lack of posts is due to the …read more
After the Springside (SS) and Chestnut Hill Academy (CHA) Education Edge databases were retired and merged in to 1 SCH Education Edge (EE) database, some users have relied on these 2 retired databases for looking up old information not moved to the …read more
Dear Colleagues, A few weeks back Tom, Suzi, Christine and I had an online discussion about FaWeb difficulties and together we planned to begin identifying the problems so that we could solve them (read FaWeb & You). Immediately after the …read more
This morning @ 10:00AM all Blackbaud systems will be temporarily unavailable We anticipate this outage to last for a maximum of 30 minutes, however we are hoping it will be much shorter. So What’s Going On? We have just received a custom programmed …read more
