The folks at LifeHacker have created a video demonstrating how to coil your charger cord without damaging it.

Enjoy.

http://lifehacker.com/5611626/learn-to-properly-coil-your-macbooks-power-cord

You can now get your battery replaced when it loses its charge at school. Just bring your laptop to room 206 to exchange it with a fully charged battery.

Please leave your charger at home and charge your battery each night.

Battery replacement is not meant to replace home charging. You must recharge your battery at home. We will not have enough replacement batteries if students do not charge their batteries at home. Batteries may not be replaced before 10:00AM.

If you have any questions please see Mr. Coffin or Mr. Arsenault in room 206.

See the following video for instructions on how to replace your battery.


Thanks to Elsa B. and Gabby B. for creating this instructional video.

NASA has created a free app that will allow you to keep current on all space missions. To learn more about it see this CNN article or click to get the APP.

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Free dial-up home internet access is available again this year for all of your 7th and 8th grade students (or high school students if you are a MLTI 1:1 high school) who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. We have tried to make the application and set-up procedures as quick and easy as possible in order to maximize the number of students participating in the program.
This service is being provided through a cooperative agreement between Great Works Internet and the Maine Learning Technology Foundation, a privately funded non-profit set up to support ancillary services associated with MLTI.

We hope that you will encourage your eligible students to take advantage of this offer; home access is an important part of the MLTI experience which is available to most of your students but effectively denied to those who can’t afford it. Anything you can do to spread the word on this offer--through teachers and directly to the students and their parents--would be great.

For More Information Go To:
http://www.maine.gov/mlti/parent/home-internet-access.shtml

All HMS students will receive their new MLTI MacBook laptops on Thursday and Friday September 3rd and 4th. All HMS laptops will remain at school until students return their signature form and $25 protection fee.

8th Grade students will begin taking their laptops home on Friday, September 11th.
7th Grade students will begin taking their laptops home on Tuesday, September 22nd.

The HMS Parent Take Home Meeting will take place on September 22nd from 5:30-6:30pm. All parents who have not attended a take home meeting previously must attend this meeting in order for their child to be allowed to take their MLTI laptop home. Please check out HMS MLTI Documents for more information. The 7th and 8th Grade Open House events will take place directly after the Take Home Meeting. Students will have the opportunity to take part in a technology conference during the Open House sessions.