Sydney Region Computer Coordinators Day

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Sydney RegionComputer Coordinators Day
Sydney Region

• Term 4, 2005

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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

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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
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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

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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_at_det.nsw.edu.au
• Website - Visit the ITD Helpdesk and log a call
  detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/helpdesk/logacall/logacall.h
  tm
• For urgent issues (where you have a Helpdesk Job
  ), or quick questions, please ring our mobiles

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• 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).

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• Sydney Region ICT news -3-

STEMS K-6 evaluation
Question Y N
Q1 How would you rate the STEMS Data Collection sheet (paper copy)? 1.55 avg 1.55 avg
Q2 How did you find the supplied documentation/instructions? 1.52 avg 1.52 avg
Q3 How did you find the software download/install process? 1.46 avg 1.46 avg
Q4 Did you encounter problems when collecting Year 6 data? 17 52
Q5 Did you encounter problems when Entering data into STEMS? 11 56
Q6 Is there any Year 6 data not asked for that could be added? 15 53
Q7 Is there any Year 6 information requested that is not necessary? 5 57
Q8How would you rate the new process compared to previous years? 1.65 avg 1.65 avg
Q9 If STEMS runs again in 2006, would your school like to participate? 61 3
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.
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• 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
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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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.
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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_i
nformation/student_offer.htm
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• 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
  future deployments 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/def
  ault.aspx

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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.a
u/cli/e-learning/e-learning.shtm while
information relating to ICT integration is still
currently available from the Curriculum K-12
site, it wont be for much longer.
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• 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/

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• 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 gt
  Connected Learning gt 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.
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• 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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