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Email is working now.  I did have to go into Office 365 Administrative panel to add those email addresses to my account.

Go to Admin

Management

Users

Select the user and change mailbox settings.

That adds the email accounts.  I still don’t get anywhere with the domains themselves, though Open DNS says it works.

Off to did into the administration options and see if they are there.

I like Sharepoint.  It’s even better with Office 365, and better yet with Mango (a very tasty fruit but don’t like the way McCafe does it).

I have been hosting with myhosting.com for a long time and if you want to play with Windows, I highly recommend it.  I set up our school website with them (they do it for free, thank you), and have been playing around with their stuff for years.

For example I do an Exchange email account with them, and have done Sharepoint but it’s expensive.

When Office 365 came out at $6.00 a month, I jumped and set up a domain.  Sadly something is wrong with their version of Control Panel and you can no longer edit domains.  So I’m screwed right now.  Especially since I can’t transfer until August.  But will then.

When I discovered that problem I set up another domain with Network Solutions.  While I could edit the domain, I couldn’t get Office 365 to verify and have been working with tech support for over a week.  I finally gave up, sat down and did some research and found the answer on the forums – the Office 365 information is wrong.  Has a major bug.  So that domain is “cooking”.

I had really nailed down that things were a Office 365 when I broke down and bought a godaddy domain (man are they freaking sexist or what).  It is in the process and working too.

Anyway, problem solved and domains are in the process of moving around.

Yes, I am awesome.

I am an Outlook addict.  I freely admit it.  I also am a Twitter addict.  To join the two, I use a really great program called Twinbox

I have been learning more about Outlook this weekend, because I had a feeling I wasn’t efficient as I could be.  I was right.

I’ve found a feature in Outlook that makes Twitter even more handy, Search Folders.  I have search folders set up so that I can keep track of my favorite twitter people.  Easy to do:

I have the following set up right now:

To get that to happen, I went to Search Folders, right clicked, and picked New Search Folder. 

Then I selected Mail with specific words

That way, I get tweets from the person and tweets mentioning that person.

Works really great.

See how I have some tweets sorted out?

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Heading to Austin next week for First Bytes at the university of Texas in Aisin. Scary because it involves a lot of walking and my knee is bothering me since UTD.

looking forward to the presentations. They even have One on Tuesday night.
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We have half a day left in the STEP for STEM experience.

It was good and I recommend it but I was way harder than I expected. PBL is hard and planning PBL within a PBL is hard. PBL stands for Project Based Learning.

I honestly think spending as much as we spent on a two week unit is not good. I am really glad I ended up with a six week project, a more efficient use of time.

Next week is Austin for CS4HS

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One of my favorite questions.  The answer is “Honey, you left, I am still there!”. 

When I was at TI on Friday, one of the security guards kept looking at me funny and finally got courage enough to ask the above.  He didn’t graduate from us, but did finish school.

But yes, I’m very proud of the fact I’ve been at the same school, same classroom for 19 years.

We’re having to do 4 modules (adds up to two days of staff development), three of which are online and one is face to face. 

I just finished the first, on designing multi-level lesson plans and it was by an outside company.  It was short, to the point, and provided a template and a rubric for developing the lesson plans.

It wasn’t anything I haven’t seen or done, but I do like the template and the way things were put together.  Emphasis was on active learning.

I like the way things ended up spread, I do a module about every 3 weeks or so.

I have one of the first Windows Home Servers and man is it nice.  However, it started failing, and it may yet continue.

Since the software is SO old, recovery was difficult.  Wouldn’t work with any of my 64 bit Windows 7 Machines, so I grabbed an old Windows XP machine and it worked fine.

I had time to move everything off, and it took awhile, but everything is up and working again.

Why do I like it?  It backs up every system I have set up automatically, and restoring is a complete piece of cake.  You can store data on it, but I’ve moved the data to a more modern server.  Pictures, movies, and the like.

My Windows Home Server has been telling me that the hard drive with the OS is failing.  I’ve had it happen before, and it’s a pain.  Any other hard drive fails, I just go to the WHS, tell it to remove the drive, pull it out and put a new one in.

Unfortunately I haven’t seen a tool that will help, but at least I have the original CD.  Right now, I’m working on backing everything up on it, moving some of it to my Iomega server, and cleaning it up.  Once I get that done, I’ll be able to make up a clean backup, then pull that drive and reinstall everything.

Sounds fun, doesn’t it?