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Sydney Region Computer Coordinators Day

Sydney Region. Sydney Region Computer Coordinators Day. Term 4, 2005. Sydney Region. 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

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Sydney Region Computer Coordinators Day

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  1. Sydney Region Sydney RegionComputer Coordinators Day Term 4, 2005

  2. Sydney Region 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

  3. Sydney Region 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

  4. Sydney Region 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

  5. Sydney Region Sydney Region ICT news -1- Sydney Region IT Website:www.sydneyr.det.nsw.edu.auNew section for Principals New contact numbers for Technology Advisers Stu Hasic 0400 329522Paul Clark 0400 372562Greg 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  - ITHelpServices1800338483@det.nsw.edu.au 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

  6. Sydney Region 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).

  7. Sydney Region Sydney Region ICT news -3- STEMS K-6 evaluation 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.

  8. Sydney Region OASIS continuity project -1- During 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

  9. Sydney Region OASIS continuity project -2- • Some 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)

  10. Sydney Region OASIS continuity project -3- • Some 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

  11. Sydney Region OASIS continuity project -4- OASIS 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.

  12. Sydney Region 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

  13. Sydney Region 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 futuredeployments 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

  14. Sydney Region 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 K-12 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.

  15. Sydney Region Commonwealth Grants- INVESTING IN OUR SCHOOLS ICT submissionsIdeally 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/

  16. Sydney Region 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.

  17. Sydney Region Freebie Software Updates: Some of the free software we have demonstrated in the past has been updated: ArtRage! v2ArtRage 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 MacGoogle Earth has finally been released for the Mac! http://earth.google.com/

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