Transcript Technology Update

Sydney Region
Sydney Region
Computer Coordinators Day
Term 4, 2005
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Agenda
Wrap Up of Term 4, 2005 CC Day
Term 1 2006 Technology Update
Questions on Notice
Office Tips and Tricks
Authenticated Internet Browsing and Email
Standardised User Accounts for All Staff and Students
Integrating ICT into Teaching and Learning
A Quick Look at EduWeb 2006
Industry Presentations:
Sentral (Gproxy 2006) Server
Mathletics – Scaffold Education
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Wrap up of Term 4, 2005
Questions on Notice
Office Tips and Tricks
LAMS
Cross –Platform Educational Freeware
STEMS 2005 Wrap up
Integrating ICT into teaching and Learning
Industry presentations
Wacom Graphic Tablets-ASI and Wacom
Educational Software for Primary Schools-Ideal Software
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Term 1 2006 Technology Update
 Sydney Region ICT news
 OASIS continuity project
 Student Select program
 Requirement to install certain updates for future
deployments of select Microsoft Office products.
 Annual School Web Design Awards 2006
 Commonwealth Grants- INVESTING IN OUR SCHOOLS
 Intel – Teach to the Future
 Freebie Software Updates
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Sydney Region ICT news -1Sydney Region IT Website: www.sydneyr.det.nsw.edu.au
New section for Principals
New contact numbers for Technology Advisers
Stu Hasic 0400 329522
Paul Clark 0400 372562
Greg Sharkey 0400 325094
Bambos Meitani 0408 640208
Calls will no longer be taken on the old mobile numbers
For Enquiries which require a visit or meeting: - Please contact the ITD Help Desk:
Phone - 1800 338 483
Email - [email protected]
Website - Visit the ITD Helpdesk and log a call:
detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/helpdesk/logacall/logacall.htm
For urgent issues (where you have a Helpdesk Job #), or quick questions, please
ring our mobiles
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Sydney Region ICT news -2SR School Support team
This semester another five SR School Support positions
are to be created.
Continuing server installations
Sydney Region standard file server installations will
continue this year. Please contact one of the Technology
Advisers to discuss this program. This process can involve
either a school purchased or T4L fileserver or the
conversion of your existing fileserver (depending on the
specifications).
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Sydney Region ICT news -3STEMS K-6 evaluation
Question
Y
N
Q1: How would you rate the STEMS Data Collection sheet (paper copy)?
1.55 avg
Q2: How did you find the supplied documentation/instructions?
1.52 avg
Q3: How did you find the software download/install process?
1.46 avg
Q4: Did you encounter problems when collecting Year 6 data?
17
52
Q5: Did you encounter problems when Entering data into STEMS?
11
56
Q6: Is there any Year 6 data not asked for that could be added?
15
53
Q7: Is there any Year 6 information requested that is not necessary?
5
57
Q8:How would you rate the new process compared to previous years?
1.65 avg
Q9: If STEMS runs again in 2006, would your school like to participate?
61
Q. Have all High Schools adopted this project?
A. The STEMS 7-12 evaluation is to be carried out in term 2 as part of the STEMS
Reference Group activities.
3
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OASIS continuity project -1During the Term 4 CC Day, we reported that OASIS Servers would be replaced with
new Netware 6.5 servers
The situation has changed and this is now unlikely
ITD has decided to pursue a "Thin-Client" solution for OASIS, where both Admin and
Library would be run from a Terminal Server Farm at St Leonards
This would involve to transfer of every school's OASIS data to the data warehouse at
St Leonards and the removal of all OASIS servers
Access to each school's OASIS data would be via the DET Portal using Windows
2000 or XP clients with OASIS running as a DOS session in Windows.
Staff would sign onto the DET Portal and if they had rights to access OASIS, a link to
OASIS would be included on their portal.
If a school assistant or Librarian worked in more than one school, their DET Portal
would include links to OASIS for each site
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OASIS continuity project -2Some benefits of the new Thin-Client solution:
No more boot disks
No more old OASIS workstations
No more KVM switches needed with two computers
No more K2 Backups (K1s must still be run)
No more tape backups
No more OASIS Updates to install
No more dedicated OASIS printers - now any Windows printer will work
Switching between Word and OASIS is simple on the same PC - just minimise
We may be able to access OASIS from home via the Portal (yet to be clarified)
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OASIS continuity project -3Some considerations with the new Thin-Client Solution:
What do we do with all the old PCs that were hand-me-downs for
OASIS previously?
How do we access OASIS if the WAN (Internet) link is down?
What are the implications for 3rd-party systems that work with
OASIS?
Sentral (GProxy)
Swipe card attendance systems
Timetabling systems
Academic Reporting systems
SMS Systems
Custom school applications
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OASIS continuity project -4OASIS Thin-Client will be trialed in April in up to 20 schools in Sydney
Region
Following successful trial, all schools will be scheduled for conversion
Conversion is to be completed by November, 2006
A data collection process will be undertaken to determine the "old
hardware" issue
As a School Administration system, OASIS will be around for at least
three more years.
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MS Student Select program
Microsoft has made available to DET its Student Select
program which allows students to purchase Microsoft
software (license and media) for their own use at home at
reduced prices. Microsoft has sent a letter to each school just
before the start of the 2005/2006 school holidays.
For more information, please see:
http://software.det.nsw.edu.au/software/software_information
/student_offer.htm
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Requirement to install updates for future deployments of
select MS Office products.
It was recently decided in a court that certain portions of code found in Microsoft Office
Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP
Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 infringe a third-party patent. As a result,
Microsoft must make available a revised version of these products with the allegedly
infringing code replaced.
Action required: Install Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (Office 2003 SP2) for all
your future deployments of Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003,
Install the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 Patch (Office XP SP3 Patch) for all your
future deployments of Office XP Professional and Access 2002
Action requested: To keep your current systems in alignment with your future
deployments of these products, Microsoft is requesting that you also update all your
current Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003 installations with Office
2003 SP2, and Office XP Professional and Access 2002 installations with the Office XP
SP3 Patch.
How do I do this?: You can obtain both Office 2003 SP2 and the Office XP SP3 Patch
by going to the website listed below:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx
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Annual School Web Design Awards 2006
Information relating to the 2006 Annual Schools Web Awards
H2O is now available from the website:
http://www.cli.nsw.edu.au/cli/e-learning/e-learning.shtm
Please note, that the elearning section of the Curriculum K12 site (containing the Student Internet Projects, Professional
support in ICT, Teaching Ideas, WebQuests, Internet
Scavenger Hunts, Adaptive Technologies etc) has now
migrated to
http://www.cli.nsw.edu.au/cli/e-learning/e-learning.shtm
while information relating to ICT integration is still currently
available from the Curriculum K-12 site, it won’t be for much
longer.
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Commonwealth Grants- INVESTING IN OUR SCHOOLS
ICT submissions
Ideally ICT submissions will be undertaken in consultation with
the Technology Advisers and/or Regional Manager, IT
Services and will comply with regional infrastructure standards
for support and connectivity to existing networks.
All proposed computer purchases should comply with
departmental hardware standards and the NSW Treasury
requirement that computer equipment be purchased with a
four-year warranty.
2006 Applications
https://iios.dest.gov.au/IOSP/
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Intel – Teach to the Future
Intel Teach to the Future training, due to popular demand will be running
state wide again this year. This is a DET and Intel Australia
initiative. Training for Master Trainers (teachers) in the metropolitan
regions will be during April.
Details are available at www.cli.nsw.edu.au > Connected Learning >
Professional Support.
Nomination forms will be available for schools on the above web site on
14th March. Principals who have expressed an interest in the course will
also be emailed the forms.
If your school is interested then it is vital that the forms come back to CLI
ASAP, as spaces are limited.
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Freebie Software Updates:
Some of the free software we have demonstrated in the past has been updated:
ArtRage! v2
ArtRage is a cool painting program for both Windows and
Mac. Version 2 has just been released (Feb 2006)
http://www.artrage.com
Google Earth for Apple Mac
Google Earth has finally been released for the Mac!
http://earth.google.com/
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