Sydney Region ICT Coordinators day Term

Sydney Region Agenda Term 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 websites We’ve got some new ICT support sites which provide podcasts and RSS aggregation. You can do it too!

Sydney Region 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 Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) Fileserver management in SR schools

Sydney Region 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

Sydney Region T4L entitlement units broken down as: 246 notebook computers 21 servers (to be installed) 1782 desktop computers 520 “extra” computers to support school administration The Apple rollout is scheduled for Semester (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.

Sydney Region T4L 2008 Fileserver 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.

Sydney Region 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

Sydney Region 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: The patch needs to be run as local administrator You need to run delprof after the patch is applied Instructions located at:

What’s New

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

 Windows XP Sp2  MS Office 2003  Expression Web  Open Office 2.4  Scribus v  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) 

 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) 

 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 

 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 

Sydney Region Sydney Region Software initiatives

Sydney Region 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.

Sydney Region Digital Education Revolution

Sydney Region Public Schools New Website

Sydney Region 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 years

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

Sydney Region Delivery and installation: Carlton PS and Marrickville HS

Sydney Region Marrickville HS install 14 May

Sydney Region Marrickville HS install 14 May

Sydney Region Marrickville HS install 14 May

Sydney Region Marrickville HS install 14 May

Sydney Region Carlton PS install 14 May

Sydney Region Gymea HS

Sydney Region

Connected Classrooms

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