Tech Update: 2007-2008 orientation is over

This page is updated each summer with useful tech information for new and returning faculty and staff. Please check back for specifics regarding the 2008-2009 tech orientation. Meanwhile, browse the information below.

  • Perhaps the most important link is the backup page which highlights ways for facstaff to do backups (memory sticks and file server account)
  • In mid-August 2006, we changed our SPAM server to Barracuda (very common amongst NYC area Ind Schools and will be fine-tuning it over the next two months ... we are now using the same settings as Dalton School ... the best feature of Barracuda (Administrator click only) is that you can "teach it" to be smarter about SPAM vs NOT SPAM over time ... please be patient ... we expect this to be a much better system eventually ... click here or here for visuals of how much SPAM has been blogged or tagged in Aug 2006 ... Steve
  • Click here for info from the Apple page on the battery recall, with info on the problematic serial numbers ... we need to put a label on every battery that says "not part of the Aug 2006 recall" or else send the battery back ... you can help us out by checking if your battery is within the range (do this after you shut down the laptop) or by bringing your laptop to room 39 so that we can check

FacStaff Computer Training 2008-2009: Times TBD

Misc Links for New and Returning Faculty

  • Warning on Mailing Lists ... the surgeon general suggests that you wait until September until you put 100% trust in any (ML) mailing list ... the one that we know is 100% accurate is the FacStaff (ML) ... even the LS, MS and US Faculty mailing lists are not 100% accurate
  • important request for your Web bio paragraph from Nicole Gesualdo (below)
  • PTH Letter to FacStaff (Aug 2006) ... ... click here
  • August Opening Days ... click here

Request for Faculty bio from Nicole Gesualdo

Hello new faculty and staff!

For those of you who haven't arrived at school or met me yet, my name is Nicole Gesualdo, and I'm Chapin's director of marketing and communications. Part of my work is to oversee the Chapin Web site, which you will all become part of within the next few weeks. Your presence on the site, in fact, is the reason for this e-mail.

You may already know that the Chapin site features mini-biographies on everyone who works here. We think this is an important way for prospective students and parents to learn about the impressive qualifications and, when appropriate, outside interests of the faculty and staff. You can find all the existing bios on this page: http://www.chapin.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_info.php

We need you, before the beginning of the school year, to submit a bio that we can post on the site. Take a look at a few that have been already posted to get a feel for what people typically include and for how long they tend to be. There is no required information for inclusion in a bio, so feel free to write yours based on whatever you want the outside world to know about you.

Please e-mail me your bio as soon as it's complete. My office will edit them and post them on the site, and if all goes well, we'll have a complete and updated Faculty/Staff page before school begins this fall.

Thanks in advance for your help, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. I'm looking forward to working with you all this year. Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Nicole