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I do keep things on portable hard drives, BUT I hate two things about them:

Difficulty backing them up

Finding them

I have somewhat solved the difficulty in backing them up (but it goes back to the cloud thing).  Have a lovely NAS (and the new one seems to work right), that allows you to plug in USB drives and will back them up.  Doesn’t work on all of them and I have to remember to back them up.

The other issue is finding them.  Ran into that this morning.  Wanted to pull some files from last year and put them on my district skydrive, and couldn’t find it.  Didn’t dawn on my that only about half of my USB stuff was on my desk and went through the whole house looking for it.  Finally realized that I need to look for a bag – and it was in an okay place, but have moved it since as the dogs could get to the bag if they wanted. 

Plus I’ve got over 10 of things over the past 5 years.

To get over that, I’ve doing several things:

Putting school stuff on the District Sky Drive

Using an Iomega Storage Device

Using Office 365

So far, the second two work pretty well with the phone, and all work with all devices.  We’ll se what the district file wall does for me.

Domain mapping is working.

www.mykweaver.com takes you to the Office 365 Site.  blog.mykweaver.com takes you to my Windows 7 Blog. 

www.kathweaver.net takes you to www.kweaver.net

Still need to play more with it, but it is looking lots better.

Had a bit of a scary thing happen – couldn’t login to my Gateway Tablet (the one with the driver issue).  I found a website:  http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ that got me back and rolling.

Just had to burn the CD, boot with it, take all the defaults and reset to a blank password, back in and backing it up to the server.

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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This was not the only computer science blog picked.

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

Sent from my Windows Phone

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.