Building your school INTRANET

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Building your school INTRANET

• Web Publishing in Education
• Bruce White
• Andrew Barr

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The School Intranet

• Private networks behind firewalls.
• Password protection (Authorized people)
• School community access
• student work
• Data files
• Newsletters
• Forms

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Advantages of Intranet

• Class publishing and communication
• Class Bulletin boards
• Personal email for projects
• Teacher communication
• Teachers get secure Admin Data
• Cost saving?

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School Intranet Design

• School advertising
• Information that teacher have vetted.
• Current information available
• Secure administrative area

• http//library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/it/we
  bdes/schweb.htm

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Setting up an Intranet

• Hardware (Server machine) (2,000-5, 000)
• Server Software (Windows 2003 server)
• Human resource cost
• professional development
• Specialist setup / maintainence
• Internet connection/internal bandwidth
• User profiling see different Portal

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Six steps to an school Intranet

• Intended audience
• Main objective for intranet
• Content rich
• Easy to read
• Easy to navigate
• Visually attractive
• Develop a web site team/ web brief

• http//www.educom.com.au/course_outlines/microsoft
  /2282.pdf

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Six steps to an School Intranet

• Gather information
• Create web map and web pages
• Plan navigation tools
• Establish credibility/accuracy

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• Freeservers http//www.freeservers.com/

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Commercial web hosting Australia

• Host1 www.host2.com.au
• Ironclad internet www.ironclad.com.au
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References

• http//activated.decs.act.gov.au/learning/lto.htm
• http//activated.decs.act.gov.au/Word/intranet_mem
  o.doc
• http//build-website.com/tools/freewebhosting.html
  
• http//library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/it/we
  bdes/schweb.htm
• http//www.schools.sa.gov.au/schlstudents/