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Welcome to the Technology Resource Center
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Technology is rapidly becoming a vital element in elementary classrooms in today's schools.
It becomes a increasingly important aspect of teaching to work with a large variety of technology. Teachers may need to know how to work on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, understand the internet, how to design webpages, a wide range of software and all types of hardware.
In the technology resource center teachers will find news about computers, the web and other technology information. Use the Technology Bulletin Board to ask question and get help with issues you face in your classrooms. Our staff will attempt to help in anyway we can and teachers may have answers to your questions too.
Let us know how we can assist you as you find yourselves increasing called upon to work with more and more technology.
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Trouble With Spam Mail?
We get a lot of calls about problems with spam. Unfortunately, spam is a very serious problem without any easy solutions. The best solutions are at your own email account level. Some Internet Service Providers have spam filtering systems that may help but they will usually only block spam to email that is working on their email servers. If you use an email account from your website or from an account other than your ISP, you will most likely have large amounts of spam.
For Windows users here is a tool called BogoPOP that can help you filter the spam out of your system. You can download it and use it for free. Here is the link to it:
Once you have downloaded and installed BogoPOP, you have to train it to what you consider to be spam email. It does not take a lot to train it. Once it is trained you can trust it to identify spam.
BogoPOP has three categories that it places email into:
1. Good
2. Unsure
3. Spam
When you first start to use BogoPOP, it will put almost all of your email into Unsure. Go through and select a few spam items and send them to the Spam category. Select some Good emails and send them to Good. You can delete the spam or leave it. Close the program and open it again. This time it will have moved identified more of the original unsure mail as Good or Spam and placed them into the appropriate category. Look through all the categories this time and move email around if you need to. Move a few more of the Unsure to where they belong and close the program and repeat the process. It will not take long before the program is "trained" to identify what you consider to be spam and good. In general about 5 rounds of training will be enough to have the program sufficiently trained. Then you can use it in a normal way by checking the Unsure and deleting the Spam. As you use the program each day to filter your email, your refine the training by moving items to Spam and Good categories.
When you delete spam in BogoPOP it deletes it from the mail server where your email account is located. So when you open your email program and "get" your mail, the spam will be gone. Anything that is in the Unsure and Good categories will come into your program for you to read.
If you have multiple email accounts, you will need to check each account with BogoPOP and train it for each account. Once it is trained, you will find you can depend on it ability to sort your email and you can delete the spam without concern of loosing any good mail.
Spam and Mac Users
If you use a Macintosh computer and are working on System X (OS X), use the built in email program named Mail. It has a built in Junk filter that is very good at filtering your email. You will also need to do some training with it so it will learn to identify what you consider t be junk. Below is a link to the Apple website that will assist you in working with your Mail program.
Here is a link to more information about spam filters for your Mac if you don't use the Mail program in your OS X system.
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