Sydney Region

ICT Coordinators dayTerm 2 2008

Sydney Region

AgendaTerm 2 2008 Technology Update

Sydney Region SMS Solution for Schools

Integrating ICT into Teaching and Learning

ICT procurement

MS Office -Tips and tricks (Primary days only)

The Digital Education Revolution (HS only)

Learning Systems update

Classroom Sound Enhancement “Improving learning by enhancing the capture and distribution of the sounds of teaching.”

Sydney Region ICT Support websitesWe’ve got some new ICT support sites which provide podcastsand RSS aggregation. You can do it too!

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Wrap up of Term 1, 2008

The Fuse Is Lit... It's Time to Change

Integrating ICT into Teaching and Learning

Favourite Digital Learning Resources Intranet site

MS Office -Tips and tricks (Primary days only)

Setting up a Local Cisco Networking Academy (HS only)

Effective Use of the Internet and Email

Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI)

Fileserver management in SR schools

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Term 2 ICT Update

T4L 2008, Rollout, take back, pac file, SR Fileserver installs, T4L SOE

Connected Classrooms SR software STEMS 2008 Digital Education Revolution Public Schools– ICT site

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T4L 2008

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/it/t4l/t4l.htm

3253 entitlement units broken down as: 246 notebook computers21 servers (to be installed)1782 desktop computers

520 “extra” computers to support school administration

The Apple rollout is scheduled for Semester 1 2008 (subject to current negotiations).

SR ITSU will be contacting schools before the T4L computers have been installed to determine if the school requires further assistance.

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T4L 2008Fileserver installations

Sydney Region is currently installing 21 T4L Servers + 6 Descretionary Purchase fileservers in our schools.

A schedule has been developed based on the critical need for the new fileserver. These fileservers are a combination of T4l fileservers and fileservers that have been purchased using discretionary funds.

Typical server installations takes 3+ days.

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T4L 2008 –take back program

Lenovo are to return to your school three days after the installation of your T4L computers as part of the takeback program

Apple are to return to your school ten days after the installation of your T4L computers as part of the takeback program

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/it/t4l/t4lfaqs.htm#6._The_'Takeback'_(Recycling)_Program

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T4L 2008 –pac file

If you are experiencing issues with the latest T4L computers accessing the internet there may be an issue with the pac file.

To resolve this issue:

Download and run the file (2008-T4L.exe) from the Desktop Management Infrastructure Group intranet site: http://esdt.det.nsw.edu.au/Projects/SOE/troubleshooting.htm

The patch needs to be run as local administratorYou need to run delprof after the patch is applied

Instructions located at: http://tinyurl.com/6bt8ka

What’s New

Mac OS X 10.5.2 MS Office 2004 Apple iLife '08 Neo Office 2.2.2 Scribus Nvu Tuxpaint Comic life (Free version)

Windows XP Sp2 MS Office 2003 Expression Web Open Office 2.4 Scribus v1.3.3.11 Nvu Dia Freemind Paint.NET Tuxpaint Pivot Stick Figure Art rage Starter Pack Audacity Scratch MS Student with Encarta Premium 2008

Open Source Office Suite Provides:

Word processing Spreadsheet presentation, drawing, and database programs

Can read and write MS Office formatted files (inc Office 2007)

http://www.openoffice.org/

Alternate Office suite based on OpenOffice Provides:

word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs

Can read and write MS Office formatted files (inc Office 2007)

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Open Source Desktop publishing Program Windows and Mac

"press-ready" output professional publishing features, such as

CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Support for both RGB and CYMK colour profiles

http://www.scribus.net/.

A complete Web Authoring System for Windows, Mac and Linux

WYSIWYG editing of pages Integrated file management via FTP Reliable HTML code creation that will work

with all of today's most popular browsers. Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and

HTML using tabs. Tabbed editing to make working on multiple

pages a snap. Powerful support for forms, tables, and

templates.

iPhoto

iMovie

Garageband

iWeb

iDVD http://www.apple.com/ilife/

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Sydney Region Software initiativeshttp://www.sydneyr.det.nsw.edu.au/

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Stems 2008

The STEMS high school transition project is running again this year

The 2008 version of the STEMS software will be released for K-6 schools during week 10 of term 2

Data entry for Year 6 students needs to be completed by Week 9 of Term 3 All schools will be notified as soon as STEMS is available for download.

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Digital Education Revolution

http://www.digitaleducationrevolution.gov.au/computer_fund/round_one/nsw.htm#Government

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Public Schools New Website

http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/news/technology/index.php

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Connected Classrooms The Connected Classrooms Program consists

of 3 key projects:

Network Bandwidth Project

Learning Tools Project

Interactive Classrooms Project In total these projects will see the investment

of $158 million over the next 4 yearshttp://www.cli.nsw.edu.au/cli/news/index/connected.shtm

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Connected Classrooms

Sydney Region has nominated the first 20 schools to receive an “interactive” classroom.

40 schools from Sydney Region are to be nominated for their installation in semester 2 2008.

Sydney Region will be advising schools of their nominations in coming weeks.

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Delivery and installation:

Carlton PS and Marrickville HS

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Marrickville HS install 14 May 2008 -

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Marrickville HS install 14 May 2008 -

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Marrickville HS install 14 May 2008 -

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Marrickville HS install 14 May 2008 -

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Carlton PS install 14 May 2008 -

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Gymea HS

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Connected Classrooms

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/lists/directoratesaz/ccp/index.htm

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ICT Coordinators day

Term 2 2008

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