Author Archives: David Henson

Spotlight: Google Sites

By David Henson | Published: January 13, 2009

In this spotlight, I’m going to show a nice video that gives a brief overview of some of the things you can use Google Sites for. To get started, simply login to http://sites.g.kpbsd.org with your KPBSD windows account.

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Google Apps… LIVE!

By David Henson | Published: January 7, 2009

For more information, check out: http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/departments.aspx?id=12092 For those that just want a quick 10,000 ft overview here are the highlights: 4-12 grade students now have email (first.last@g.kpbsd.org). Staff Outlook has the student email addresses in the address book. Courses are email able (example: course 12mm430_1). The teacher and each enrolled student will receive an email […]

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Sample Video Post

By David Henson | Published: December 12, 2008

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about how to add video to a blog. The good news is that you can actually leverage the power of Google to assist you in hosting your videos. Video’s can be uploaded to http://video.google.com where they can then be referenced and embedded into a post. After uploading your […]

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Student Addresses in Outlook

By David Henson | Published: December 11, 2008

In an effort to make emailing your student Gmail accounts as seamless as possible, we will be adding contacts for both student email accounts and course groups into the Outlook Global Address List. This means that you will be able to email a student simply by typing their name in the ‘To…’ field of an […]

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New Teacher Distribution Lists

By David Henson | Published: November 24, 2008

We’ve now added new ‘Teacher’ distribution lists to our Exchange server. If you find yourself needing to send a message to all of the teachers at your school and didn’t want to include the office/support staff, simply address the message to ‘<school name> Teacher’. For Example: ‘Skyview Teachers’ or ‘Soldotna El. Teachers’ (without the ‘ […]