What is School Life

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What is School Life?
What is School Life?
School Life is an intuitive and practical way of
storing and accessing schools media
files. Events are recorded in a network of
multi-user diaries. Files of all sorts can be
imported and linked to these events, also to
people, to places, to the curriculum and to each
other.
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What is School Life?
Why use School Life?

• As schools purchase more digital cameras the
  demands on IT-literate teachers to manage the
  resulting media files can become excessive.
• Using just the tools provided with Windows,
  access to media files is difficult to control
  effectively.
• Typically the task will be left to certain
  trusted individuals (e.g. the ICT
  coordinator/manager).
• It is sometimes hard to recall all the events and
  activities that the school has organised when put
  on the spot by school inspectors.

School Life addresses these issues. It brings a
record of all the schools activities together in
one place enabling teachers and pupils to take
full advantage of the schools multi-media
library.
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What is School Life?
Managing Media

• School Life functions as a single access point to
  the schools media files for all PCs on the
  school network.
• It provides a consistent, user-friendly interface
  to import
• Photos
• Video clips
• Scanned artwork
• Other documents and files
• Recorded voices, music and sounds
• In cases where parents have requested that
  pictures of their child should not to be
  publicised, those pupils can be flagged, and
  appropriate warnings displayed.

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What is School Life?
Multi-User Diaries

• A set of networked, multi-user diaries provides
  teaching and administrative staff with a dynamic
  event-scheduling tool.
• Individual diaries can be created for staff and
  linked to lesson plans, teaching resources and
  other files.
• A collective diary for the whole school gives an
  overview which can easily be updated and shared.
• Diaries can also be created for classes, places
  (Hall) or things (Video) so availability of
  valuable resources can be viewed and bookings
  made.

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What is School Life?
Pupil Portfolios

• Photos, video, audio recordings, stories, scans
  of artwork and other documents and files can be
  linked to individual pupils.
• School Lifes powerful search and filtering
  capabilities mean portfolios of work can
  instantly be assembled and used for a wide range
  of purposes.
• Media items can be easily tagged by curriculum
  area enabling teachers or school inspectors to
  easily and quickly search for and peruse all the
  work done in those areas.
• Pupils learn valuable ICT skills as they record
  their work and import and link files to their
  portfolios.

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What is School Life?
LifeLine
Important events from the diaries are
automatically recorded on a LifeLine. Over
time, the school will develop a visual record of
its history that can be easily and quickly
browsed great for school inspections! The
multitude of pictures and other media files that
are being generated in our new digital era can be
stored and displayed in a meaningful context.
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What is School Life?
Technical Requirements
School Life requires a PC with the following
specification Windows XP with service pack 2 or
Windows 2000 with service pack 4 1.5Ghz
processor 256Mb memory (preferably 512Mb) 500Mb
free disk space Screen resolution of 1024 x 768
pixels Windows Media Player (version 9 or
later) Supplied on installation CDROM A
scanner is also strongly recommended for selected
PCs to enable pupils work to be scanned into
School Life. For networked installations we
recommend that the School Life database is stored
on a server contact us for details of the
server specification
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What is School Life?
What does it cost?

• School Life is priced on a whole school, site
  licence basis i.e. the licence fee covers the
  installation of the software on the server and on
  every PC connected to the School local area
  network.
• Prices are based on the number of pupils on the
  school roll. The licence fee for an average
  primary school of 230 pupils would be 780 VAT
  for the first year and one quarter of that for
  the second and subsequent years. This typically
  averages out at less than 15 per PC (and down to
  8 per PC for larger schools). The annual fee
  includes our support service and software
  updates.
• We can also offer the following additional
  services at extra cost
• Installation
• Software set up
• Training
• Support

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What is School Life?
Time to put your school on the map?
School Life is revolutionising the management of
multi-media content in schools. Seeing is
believing - try the software yourself! Just
install the 30-day free trial version included on
this CD. Contact us now for further
details LifeStyle Software Limited PO Box
60 Whaley Bridge HIGH PEAK SK23 7ZA T 0845 644
0641 F 0870 0940050 E info_at_lifestyle-software.co
m W www.school-life.com
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