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Welcome
to the final edition of Talking Technology for 2006.
What a huge year it has been for all of us! We commenced
the year with the commissioning of the new IDL service
using REACT and things just accelerated from there with
new computers, servers and software being implemented
across all schools.
With the end in sight for the IT infrastructure
upgrades, we are now looking to the next generation
of learning systems that will be delivered on this infrastructure.
In this issue we are providing more information on upgrades
and highlighting the Student Portal and Learning Profiles
and the Schools Without Borders projects which will
both be launched next year.
In the meantime, IT services would like
to wish our clients in schools and the department a
very happy and safe Christmas and new year and we look
forward to seeing you at the DEET staff Christmas party
on 15 December.
The collection of the old LATIS
computers will begin next week - Darwin
ONLY
Southern Cross Moving will start dropping off pallets
to load the computers on Monday 10th December and will
be sending a crew around, school by school, to pack
the computers onto the supplied pallets. A truck and
forklift will pick up the pallets. There maybe a couple
of days between when the pallets are packed and when
the truck comes to collect them so they will need to
be stored in a dry, safe and secure area. Please ensure
the students are kept away from the loading area. Keyboards,
mice and cabling are to be packed in bags or boxes separately
from the computers themselves. If you have any questions
please contact Shelley at IT Services on 8999 5639.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Schools
Upgrade
The Dell computers
were delivered to all schools in the first two weeks
of November and the project team has upgraded the servers
in about 70% of schools to the new ntschools.net domain.
The remaining schools will be migrated to the new environment
before the end of the school year.
It has been a huge
effort on the part of schools and our project staff
and things have gone relatively smoothly thanks to the
expertise and patience of all involved. The upgrades
will result in our schools having computing environments
better than any education sector in Australia and equal
to the services provided to NT Government agencies....
more
information
Student Learning
Profiles and Portal Services
IT Services are working with Teaching Learning and Standards
to develop a personalised online environment with the
following objectives:
- Provide students with access to personalised digital
environments where they can store and retrieve their
work and interact with the school email and online
learning systems.
- Provide teachers and schools with the tools to manage
individual student learning profiles that record their
learning needs, progress and achievements. Schools
will also use the information on student profiles
for reporting to parents.
- Provide parents and guardians with controlled access
to their child’s enrolment, attendance, achievement
and portfolio information recorded by the system....more
information
Schools Without
Borders
The Online services team is working with a team of Year
8 teachers at Palmerston and Taminmin High Schools to
pilot the use of online and interactive delivery of
Maths, Science, SOSE and English subjects.
The primary goal of the
project is to improve student retention in senior years
and improve their academic outcomes as measured by MAP
results and the numbers proceeding onto VET and Higher
Education studies.
The secondary benefits
of the project will include more flexible programs to
cater for remedial and gifted students and greatly enhanced
skills in using modern technologies to learn and collaborate
with others.....more
information
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