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Ultranet
Leadership, Management and Innovation
SLAV Conference
Karenina Fromhold
Department of Education
[email protected]
Friday 4th May 2007
Who has heard of the Ultranet?
What have you heard about the Ultranet?
Agenda
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Project Vision and Objectives
Journey
Interoperability
What will the Ultranet do?
Benefits
– Teachers
– Students
– Parents
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Timelines
How is the project managed?
Impact for Librarians
What can you do?
Ultranet
Vision:
The Ultranet is a powerful online environment that
enhances partnerships between students, teachers and
parents to support quality learning and teaching.
Objectives:
Improve responsiveness to individual learning
needs
Provide better information to parents, the school
system and Government
Improve efficiency of the learning environment
and school administration
Adopt an enterprise approach to intranet
development
Exploit previous ICT investments.
History of the Ultranet
How did the Ultranet come about?
A need to increase innovation and access to ICT
environments in schools
Prepare students for the digital and multi-media world
Increase learner participation, engagement and achievement
in education.
The Ultranet supports the following key government
strategies:
Blueprint for Government Schools (Ministerial Statement
2003)
Effective Schools Model (DoE Policy 2004).
Proof of Concept – Students@Centre
Students@Centre was research and development prototype that
was developed as a proof-of-concept system in 2005.
Involved in the Students@Centre trial in 2006 were:
12 Government Schools (Primary, Secondary and Special
Development Schools)
630 Teachers
50 SSOs
10,000 Students
300 Parents.
The pilot showed that Students@Centre:
increased the level of access to ICT
positively changed teachers attitudes towards the use of
technology
increased teachers’ capacity to prepare materials, track student
data and report on student progress
enhanced teacher collaboration for curriculum planning and
delivery.
All Brought Together by One System
timetabling
reporting
content management
Student
booking resources
lesson planning
special needs
professional development
School
VELS
workplace safety
Teaching &
booking rooms daily
organisation communication Learning
student management
Informatio
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list management discussion
forum notification and bulletins state wide initiative
online learning and teaching
school policy
content publications incidents
early intervention
feedback
administration
digital resources
online search
collaboration
POLTS
submissions
chat
learning federation
SPoT identity management
security
workflow processing
feedback surveys
Collaboration
student unique identifier
new student report card
Tools
audit tracking archiving
notes
LCSM
online roll marking
teacher unique identifier
Content
progress reporting
Management
individual learning plans
video content
enquiry management instant messaging
employee management
online excursion management
remote access data backup web servers intranets
event management
extranets
user admin
What will the Ultranet Do?
The Ultranet will:
Improve student learning
Support the work of teachers
Enable the Department to better
support schools
Enhance active partnerships with
parents
What will the Ultranet Do?
The Ultranet will be a complete electronic learning environment.
This will include:
a repository of curriculum content and learning activities
a repository of student, staff and school records
available anytime (in the classroom, offsite and at home)
an attendance system
a timetabling system
interoperability with existing school systems
a reporting system
an administration system
a school portal
Benefits for Teachers, Principals and
Administrative Staff
The Ultranet will allow the following online functionality:
Teachers:
Planning and creation of curriculum (class programs and
lessons)
Access to high quality online resources
Provision of feedback on student assessments
Ability to mark attendance
School Administrators:
Access to whole-of-school curriculum
Access to attendance details
Administrative and reporting functionality
Benefits for Students
The Ultranet will allow the following online
functionality for students:
Access to curriculum (class and homework
details)
Ability to communicate with teachers and other
students
Capacity to keep a personal journal
Access to digital learning objects
Provision to submit school work
Benefits for Parents
Parents will be able to view their child(ren)’s
progress such as:
assessment tasks
school reports
school attendance details
Timelines and Budget
The following timelines for the project are:
Q3 2007
Request for Tender released to the Market
Q4 2007
Q1 2008
Q4 2008+
Q4 2010
Evaluation of Tender submissions
Contractor to begin the build of the Ultranet
Initial deployment of the Ultranet to schools
All Victorian government schools access
the Ultranet
$60.5m Ultranet over four years
How is Ultranet managed?
Governance of Project
– Project Board
– Experienced Senior Project Manager
Consultation
– School Users Advisory Subcommittee
– Stakeholders Advisory Subcommittee
Feedback
– Research & Development Schools
Evaluation
– Continuous Evaluation
Communication
– Active Communication Strategy
Impact on Librarians
How will the Ultranet impact on Librarians?
• Enhance the way you work
• Connect the teacher curriculum planning
area to the resource centre / library
• Share/access resources across schools
• Central repository of resources that you
can access
What can you do?
• Encourage a community of ICT learning at your school
• Evaluate your ICT skills using the ICT Capabilities Survey
http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/content.php?content_id=31
• Encourage the use of online curriculum resources using
the Victorian Education Channel
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/schools/
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Blogs for Teachers
The Global Classroom Project
DigiLearn
Learning Federation Objects
• How can you support other teachers in your school?
Questions?