Toshiba NB200 clean XP Pro install

How to … (Yes this is the quickest method…)

Prereqs:

  1. External USB CD OR DVD drive.
  2. Nlite
  3. Windows XP Pro ISO image or XP Pro CD

Steps:

  1. Get External USB CD Drive & Blank CD/DVD
  2. Get nlite
  3. Get this driver from Toshiba – It’s the Intel matrix storage floppy driver..
  4. Extract driver to a folder..
  5. Install nlite
  6. Run nlite and select to include driver and create ISO Image
  7. Create new ISO Image
  8. Select folder where you extracted the driver (Multiple drivers)
  9. Select all drivers.
  10. Burn ISO image to a blank CD/DVD
  11. Install from CD/DVD.

Explaining the #edchat poll options – Need help!

I found some of the options for the #edchat poll a little confusing so I figured someone else must too.. Please help me try to clarify the options.

Option: Should teachers digitally open their gradebooks to parents?
Explanation: Teachers and educators assess pupils performance constantly throughout their education, do you think that this information should be constantly available to the parents of the pupil throughout their entire education, some of their education or not at all?

Option: What edtech standards should be included State wide?
Explanation: Some states are starting to incorporate standards for using technology. However, these standards are not uniform and often filled with difficult jargon. What standards would we include if asked by our schools to come up with standards? What should students be able to do with various technologies- problem solve, collaborate, etc.?

Option: How should administrators and school leaders take an active part in edtech Professional Development?
Explanation: How should school administrators and leaders be trying to encourage other teachers and leaders to improve on their technology skills

Option: How do you prevent burnout on Social Media?
Explanation: We become much busier as the school year starts. However, teachers still want to keep up with their Twitter, Ning, LinkedIn, Facebook,and other social media accounts. How do we balance our lesson planning, grading, personal lives, etc. and still keep active with our personal learning network?

Option: What objectives are necessary for effective edtech integration?
Explanation: What goals are necessary for effective technology integration into education? How can we assess these goals and decide what they should be? Can be it “Graded” or is it a mistake to think a grading system will not get dated quicker than a system is implemented?

The poll is available here: http://twtpoll.com/oh1hfj

Please provide comments to help me update this post! Some updates thanks to Shelly

Send_NSCA.exe example

1. Make sure you edit your send_nsca.cfg accordingly

2. Copy to c:\test.vbs

Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments.Unnamed
Set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
‘ 0 = hostname of local machine
‘ 1 = checkname
‘ 2 = result, 0 is ok, 1 is warn, 2 is crit
‘ 3 = notes from the output
‘ Written by John McLear of Primary Technology 2009
exepath = “c:\program files\montitech\nc_net\config\send_nsca.exe” ‘ path to exe
cfgpath = “c:\program files\montitech\nc_net\config\send_nsca.cfg” ‘ path to cfg
host = “nagios.server.com” ‘host nagios server
tab = Chr(9)
prefix = “c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /q /c echo “
cmd= prefix & oArgs.Item(0) & tab & oArgs.Item(1) & tab & oArgs.Item(2) & tab & oArgs.Item(3) & ” | ” & chr(34) & exepath & chr(34) & ” -H ” & host & ” -c ” & chr(34) & cfgpath & chr(34)
wscript.echo cmd
‘ Remove or rem out above line after debug
WshShell.Run(cmd)

3. Edit nagios.server.com to your nagios server name.

4. Start – run – cmd – cscript c:\test.vbs Myhostname Mycheckname Status(seebelow)
My Example: cscript c:\test.vbs mooocow simsdbversion 0 3.142

Android – The events window seems to only show events happening at the specific time and clicking doesn’t show daily events

On my windows device I used my calendar to oversee what I was doing on the day, it was on my “Today” screen. On my android it is now 2 clicks to get to my daily events. One click would of been acceptable but 2 isn’t. Anyone know the fix?