Back to School deals from Apple

It is that time already- have a recent graduate heading to college?

Going back to school yourself?

This is for you-

Spring 2009 Faculty Inventory

Please take a few minutes to fill out our Spring Inventory.

The inventory allows us to get an accurate accounting of what has been issued, what has been damaged/lost or grown legs, what is no longer in service and what is needed for the coming school year.

Games: Not Just For KIDS, anymore!

NYU's Game Center is hosting it's First Lecture Series - Open to the Public!

The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, has announced its first series of guest lecturers. The lecturers represent scholars, creators, and thinkers in the field of games. The talks will take the format of a discussion and audiences are encouraged to join the conversation.

The lectures are as follows:

• Thursday, April 2, 6 - 8 pm Jonathan Blow, creator of the creatively ambitious, highly acclaimed game Braid.
• Thursday, April 16, 6 - 8 pm Warren Spector, influential game designer who is presently working with Disney Interactive.
• Thursday, April 23, 6 - 8 pm Marc “Mahk” LeBlanc, creator of the MDA framework, a powerful conceptual approach to game design.
• Thursday, April 30, 6:30 - 8 pm Eric Zimmerman & Katie Salen, co-authors of the groundbreaking book on game design, Rules of Play.
• Friday, May 8, 6 - 8 pm Clint Hocking, pioneering game designer whose work explores new directions for blending narrative and gameplay.

The series will be held at the Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 006, lower level. Refreshments will be served. The talks are free and open to the public; advance reservation is required. Please RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu

Several BFS Teachers will be Presenting Best Tech Practices at Packer!

NYSAIS Education and Information Technology (NEIT) presents Teaching with Technology: Best Practices from Classroom Teachers. This day-long conference will let you attend teacher-led sessions that show you how to use technology in your classroom. There will be groups organized around a variety of subject matter, by grade levels, and by teacher comfort with technology (from beginner to advanced).

The conference is designed to let teachers who use technology well share it with the greater teaching community. There will also be designated time for teachers to meet with others in similar positions from different schools to exchange information on how they're utilizing technology.

Date: Friday - May 01, 2009

Time: 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Packer Collegiate Institute

Click here for more information:
New York State Association of Independent Schools: Conferences and Workshops

Fwd: [Forum] Summercore 2009 (2 sessions July 2009) ** our 25th anniversary year

Summercore- Summer Professionl Development in Technology

This year we are offering one week of Summercore in the NYC area at Horace
Mann School July 13-17 and one week at Shorecrest Preparatory School in
St. Petersburg FL July 27-31. Summercore is a unique computer training
workshop for K-12 teachers of all ages and all stages: from novices to
administrators to skilled users to computer coordinators. As Steve Taffee,
Director of Technology writes "arguably the best faculty inservice program
we've had at Castilleja since I joined in 2002."

-- Summercore 2.009 meets Web 2.0. Do you want your faculty excited about
blogs, wikis, Google docs and RSS? How about creating links in Delicious?
Or working on digital storytelling with bubbleshare, flickr, and jumpcut?
Or using Voicethread for a classroom project? What about creating a
journey in Google Earth or acquiring strategies for incorporating YouTube
into the curriculum?

-- Summercore 2.009 will include all these Web 2.0 skills, plus strategies
for using the Smartboard and the notebook software, laptops in the
classroom, and searching for the best web sites available. The key theme
for Summercore 2.009 is how to create a Classroom 2.0. Our focus will be
on revolutionizing the dynamics of the use of technology. There is nothing
more exciting than integrating the world of Web 2.0 into every grade level.

-- Summercore 2.009 is a unique 5 day marathon journey through hardware,
software and humanware. It is different from virtually any other computer
workshop you have ever attended. The only way to get a sense of this is to
read quotes from those who have come or even better talk directly to any
of the over 2600 Independent School teachers and administrators who have
attended Summercore since we began in 1985, exactly 25 years ago.

Please tell your faculty--all grade levels and all skill levels--about
Summercore 2009. All details are posted on our http://www.summercore.com
Web site. Thanks in advance for sharing this e-mail with your faculty and
administrators.

Steve Bergen (sbergen@cstorefront.org)
co-Director of The Original Teaching Company

Sync your GoogleDocs Calendar with your iPhone or iTouch

You can now sync your GoogleDoc calendars with your iPhone or iTouch.

Read this article very carefully to set this up.

Fwd: BFS Guest has been disabled

Colleagues,

The BFS Guest wireless access has been temporarily disconnected.

Many users have been having difficulty connecting to our secure wireless
network, BFSW.

If you are still having trouble connecting please restart your machine.

This should connect you to the correct BFS Wireless network, BFSW.

We hope this is helpful-

Community,

Welcome to the 2008-2009 Department of Information and Media Website!

Here you will find FAQs and helpful information you can use to help answer your technical questions.

This year is the sixth year of the formalizing of a 'technology' or 'information technology' department at Brooklyn Friends. Like a 6 year-old we are are a lot more stable on our feet, a good deal more organized and ready for the next phase of growth, :).

This is your portal for information about new resources, new equipment and new initiatives in all divisions. The DIMS section of Panthernet is an active repository and reference area to help keep all of this information at your fingertips.

Here on the divisional tech pages there are summaries of the technology resources and initiatives in each division. We hope these are informative and helpful to you in your work this year and in planning for the future.

We are looking forward to working with all of you for a productive and harmonious school year!

Best,

The Department of Information and Media Services