Infoscape October 2012

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INFOSCAPEOctober 2012

Worcester Academys technology services, information services & library services News Fee

HOW OFTEN DO YOU SHUT DOWN YOUR COMPUTER?To Shut Down or not to Shut Down, that is the question.

Do you shut down your computerregularly? Do you ever shut downyour computer? Is there benefit inshutting down your computer? Thereis no easy answer. If you look atcomputer manuals, online forumseven company web pages, you willsee that there are answers on bothsides of the fence. Some say shutdown at the end of every day, otherssay they never do. Which do webelieve?

If I had to guess, the truth liessomewhere in the middle. There aresome things we do know:1. You dont need to shut down everyday.2.The greatest amount of power useoccurs during start up and shut down.3. Power is still being used even whena computer is sleeping.

4.Damage is more likely to occurduring start up or shut down.5.RAM is not cleared when acomputer is sleeping

Any way youlook at itthere arebenefits toboth andbenefits tonone, butthe WA

InformationServicesdepartmentrecommends a happy medium.

Shutting down your computer on theaverage of one time a weekcompletely wipes away the computer'sRAM (random access memory), whichmight have some corrupt/junk data left

in it from various things the computerdoes. It also lets the computer'scomponents cool down.

Of course, if you notice your compute

acting out of the ordinary, slower thannormal, or applications are actingstrange, a good first action to try is agood old-fashioned restart.


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my.worcesteracademy.org; Worcester Academys Private Cloud

The introduction of My.Worcesteracademy.org to the WA technology

environment has made interacting with the core suite of tools even easier.

Through Single Sign On technology (SSO) students will be able to

remain signed into the core tools used by Worcester Academy.

Once into the private cloud that is My Worcester Academy,

clicking on an icon will open up that particular application.

This is just phase one of using the cloud. There are many

other functions like file save and share, collaborative spaces

and news. While this evolving tool begins to take root on WA

laptops, there was another motivation behind setting up a

private WA cloud.

The ability to access, use, retrieve and share files, applications, news

and other features from any computer around the globe has long been

possible in the corporate world and in some colleges, but now you

can do these things with your WA computer and files as well.

By having a private cloud, students, teachers and parents

can access WA at any time, from any computer. Times

when there might have been interruption to the school day

(such as too many snow days) are becoming a thing of the

past with the cloud giving us ubiquitous access.

Stay tuned to the InfoScape newsletter for updates to how we

are using My.WorcesterAcademy.org

Why a private cloud?

Using a single name and

password, all Worcester

Academy community

members (Students,

Teachers & Parents)

will be able to log

into the core suite oftools for that

particular group.

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Is your computer fixed? Find out without coming to the Tech Office!

Whats on the Wiki?

There are a number of usefulresources on the front page of the wiki,as well as buttons that will bring you tomore resources. The front page has the I.T.Office schedule, will show you what computers are in for repair andwhich ones are done, as well as the Schedule for the student-run

Help Desk in the Library.

The buttons that can be found on the wiki page are:1. Step-by-Step button: will take you to a page of easy to

read guides for frequently performed tasks.2. InfoScape button: will take you to a page to see the

most current infoScape newsletter as well as pastissues.

3. Library-Information Services button: will take you tothe resources page for the Library.

4. WA Wiki Home button: will take you to the home pagefor the entire WA Wiki environment.

5. WA Website button: will bring you to the WA Webpage

INFORMATION SERVICES WIKI


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Mr. Tim Healy, WAs Director of

Residential Life and its TOP

TWEETER, shares some

advice for tweeting about WA.

So here are some Twitter Tips

(Twips if you will):

1. Keep to 120 to enable someone to

add a quote to a RT if necessary.Italso give you space to add a photo

without worries.

2. Use the hashtag #worcacdmy to

embed any tweets onto the Twitter

feed on or web page.3. Dropping in a hashtag during the

course of a sentence might seem

funny but it will help generatefollowers. Here is an example of

what I am talking about:

Had a great evening in #Shanghai

meeting up with members of the

class of 1992. They are truly#honorable alumni.- What happens by doing that is

anyone that searches Shangai or

honorable will see your tweet. It is away of increasing our reach on

Twitter.

4. Feel free to use someone's

twitter handle in a sentence

itself. That way it automaticallyshows up in their feed and

doesn't waste characters. Forexample:

It was great seeing Coach

Johnson get his first Football

win with @worcesteracdmy.

5. Some people resort to

"Twitter Speak" and overly

chopping up words to make the

fit the 140. I don't because werepresent education and it

detracts from educational

professionalism in my opinion. Ijust try to rephrase it to make it

fit to 140. I take it as a verbalchallenge to make it work!

6. Tweet as if you speaking to an

audience, not writing to one. Thetough part is that it is a universal

Worcester Audience.7. Feel free to retweet what appears

in your feed. If they already followWorcester, they won't see it again but

if they don't, it helps those accounts

to get more followers from people

that might follow you but not otherWA accounts.

8. The best time to tweet is between1:00 and 3:00 PM in the time zone of

the audience you are trying to reach.

11:00 AM - right before lunch break

is the second best time. It is why Ioften wait until then to RT Worcester

items. For other things like gamescores the fans of those teams are

checking as it is happening so in

those cases I don't wait. Tweet

game highlights as they happen.

Who are you following?

Worcester Academy

@worcesteracdmy

#worcacdmy

WA Girls Varsity Hockey

@WA_GVHockey

WA Crew Team

@WA_rowing

WA Middle School

@WA_Middleschool

WA Board of Monitors

@WA_BOM

WA Residential Life

@WAResLife

WA Boys Varsity Soccer

@WA_BVSoccer

WA Weather Station

@WAweather

WA Middle School Soccer

@WA_MSBoysSoccer

Worcester Academy Arts

@WorcAcadArts

COOL FEEDS

TO FOLLOW!

DO YOU TWEET?


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WE ARE HERE

FOR YOU

Contact Information Services

Phone:508-754-5302 ask for one of us by name

Emails:CIO:

[email protected]

Website:

[email protected]

PowerSchool:

[email protected]

Hardware Software:

[email protected]

Network:

[email protected]

Phones:

[email protected]

WA Wiki Homepage:http://wawiki.wikispaces.net

Password Reminder: see more athttp://xkcd.com/936/

If you have an issue with yourlaptop, we are here to help you.

The WA Tech office is Open year

round.

With the exception of major

holidays, we are open the

following hours:

Monday through Friday

8:00am - 4:00pm

If you are having an issue with

school equipment, please call or

email first to see if we can

resolve the issue for you.
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