Talking Technology October 2006

Schools Upgrade
The upgrade of school servers and computers continued with Stuart Park, Nakara, Woolaning, St Pauls, and Litchfield Christian schools being migrated to the ntschools.net over the last 2 weeks. This completes the pilot sites and the project team will now scale up to migrate all schools over the next 9 weeks.

AARNET for Internet Services
Schools Internet services were moved from Telstra to AARNet on Wednesday 4 October. There were some teething problems but these have been resolved. The net effect of the changes is that the size of the pipe connecting NT schools to the Internet has increased from 20 Mb to 100 Mb.

Professional Learning Opportunities
ICT in Education has been identified as a priority area of the NT DEET Approved Student Status Scheme, allowing NT DEET teachers to be funded to study at Charles Darwin University in 2007.

NT DEET will fund two units* per applicant in one of the following courses

Applications for Approved Student Status must be submitted by 3rd November 2006.

For further information and application forms visit http://www.ict.schools.nt.gov.au/online_learning/cdu_courses.shtml.

ICT Fair 2006 - Interact and Innovate
The ICT Fair is the culmination of a creative learning journey for students and their teachers in developing an interactive and innovative product using ICT technology. The purpose of the fair is to encourage the use of ICT in NT schools and colleges across all curriculum areas, and to provide a forum to showcase students' work. The Fair strives to be inclusive and encourages participation from all Territory school students.

More information .....

ntschools.net email
Perhaps the biggest change in the new environment for users is the move from Squirel Mail to Exchange for email services. Exchange is an industry standard product and it offers a rich array of mail, diary and collaboration functionality. This section is intended to give you an understanding of the different ways you can access your email.