Ultranet Plans

Plans for August 9th.

Looking into the Meeting schedule to deliver information that passwords will need to changed.
Staff will need to register on the IDAM. Maybe this can be done on the same day to avoid wasting time on August 9th.

Jennie interested in putting together a powerpoint.
The staff to be split into 2 groups.
F1 and F2 to be used.
The most important part we felt of the training was letting us play around. We would like to emulate this.
Using the laminated cards to set people on some small simple tasks in the morning.
The treasure hunt task we completed would be good for the afternoon.
Minh should be available for technical problems on the day.

Areas of focus.
The eXpress spaces good for engaging initial contact.
Tasks could include:
Understanding applications.
Changing profile.
Control Panel.
Finding people.
Writing a blog.

Design space
It would be good to find excellent examples to show staff. At the moment this is the most valuable part of the Ultranet.


Beyond August 9th.
No student access until staff have had adequate training.
This is not a race and the DEECD have told use we are to make out own decisions implementing.

Twitter in Education

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I've been thinking about this idea for a while. It's still an idea. The school could have a twitter account though. Maybe for notifying daily events? Must must on this.

Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs

I found an interesting article from the guardian.co.uk called "Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up."

Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned.

However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.

I think the idea is great, because all these Web 2.0 technologies like twitter, wikipedia, facebook and blogs are being used by industry in many feilds. Nearly all, of my friends, work, on a computer, and this includes the outdoors and physical labout tradesmen, who use their computers, iphones, and PDA's to quote, and promote their businesses. I don't think students and teachers get enough time, in computer labs, to experience ecurriculum and this will be at the detremeant to the Australian education system and eventually the Australiain workforce.I do however applaud all schools, principals, and management that are given it the best shot they can. The next few years are going to be really interesting. However, I don't think the content of bristish system, ie the Victorians or World War II necessarily needs to be purged.