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An Important Message for Subscribers

August 1, 2013 by admin

If you have subscribed to iPad Apps for School via email or RSS (including a number of RSS-powered services like Flipboard and Feedly) this morning you may have received a malware warning when trying to click through links. There is not any malware hosted on this site. The message was the result of an error with FeedBlitz, the email and RSS delivery service that I use. This is the message that I received from them.

False Alarms and Click Through Issues Aug 1

This morning, shortly before 8am US Eastern, one of our databases became overloaded and, to use a technical term, crapped out.
Our monitoring apps told us of the situation, we quickly jumped on the apparent problem, and we thought we were done … but there was more to the issue than at first appeared.
One of our downstream web servers that handled tracking became horribly overloaded as a consequence of its being unable to reach that specific database. That in turn caused a failsafe in FeedBlitz to kick in, which had the nasty and unintended consequence of putting up a scary malware message.  That’s a design oversight we’ll fix later; right now the message has changed if you’re still getting it.
Right now we’re rerouting traffic to web servers that are OK. Depending on your settings that might take a while to show up. Job #1 is to get the system serving you properly. Then we’ll figure out what caused this cascade of issues and how to prevent them in the future.
Updates will be posted here and on the @FeedBlitz Twitter account.
Update 09:18 – things are looking much better now and click throughs are working properly.

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Use the MasteryConnect iPad App to Quickly Identify Common Core Standards

January 24, 2013 by admin

masteryconnect_001 MasteryConnect has been a supporter of my Free Technology for Teachers blog and this week they became supporters of iPad Apps for School. One of the many things that MasteryConnect offers is a free iPad and iPhone app that helps you quickly identify the Common Core Standards for the grade levels and content areas that you teach. To find the standards simply select math or language arts, choose your grade, then tap on any of the listed standards to read their details. The MasteryConnect iPad app also includes the college and career readiness standards. The app is handy when you need to quickly find language of a particular standard.

MasteryConnect’s online service provides assessment tracking tools for teachers and administrators. The tracking tools allow teachers and administrators to quickly see the progress that their students are making toward meeting a Common Core standard. Parents and students can be given a log-in to track progress too.

The MasteryConnect teacher community provides a place for teachers to develop and share lessons and assessments aligned to Common Core standards. It is free to join and participate in the community.

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