School Tech News Archive

NSW Election Results

(Monday 26th March 2007)
Seat by seat (and booth by booth) results from Saturday's state election, provided by the State Electoral Commission.

Electronic Whiteboards for all NSW DET Schools (SMH)

(Friday 16th March 2007)
All NSW public schools will be equipped with interactive whiteboards connected to each other via a broadband network, under a $158 million program announced by the State Government.

OSX 10.4.9 Update

(Wednesday 14th March 2007)
A plethora of updates and fixes for OSX client and server software. (Available through Software Update.) Full update details - Client | Server

Brave New World in Teen Blog Land (SMH)

(Wednesday 14th March 2007)
"When my children come home from school, their preferred form of chilling out is logging on. While the younger one contents herself with designing a cyber-home on The Sims (in spooky imitation of what her mother is doing in the embodied world), the older one makes straight for MySpace." Sound familiar? Are we harnessing this interest with relevant classroom activities?

Marks for Mac

(Monday 12th March 2007)
Described as "iTunes for your markbook", Marks may fill the gap left by Motorised Markbook for a personal class markbook, particularly for teachers in high schools. Automatically calculates statistics, rankings, weighted and moderated marks. Now available as a Universal Binary.

Vixy - Flash to Video Converter

(Friday 9th March 2007)
Copy and paste a streamed video URL (such as YouTube) to save and convert the movie to a video format of your choice, so that the movie can be watched without an Internet connection.

Parallels Desktop for Mac - Update

(Monday 5th March 2007)
Parallels has received a major update, with the introduction of "Drag and Drop" of files between Mac and Windows, and the new Coherence feature that gives the illusion of Windows programs running directly on your Mac, with no Windows desktop.

Shellharbour CC Meetings - Term 1 2007

(Friday 2nd March 2007)
Our Term 1 Computer Co-ordinator meetings will be held at Warilla HS (Tuesday 20th March) and Moss Vale HS (Wednesday 21st March). Our guest presenter will be a representative from Clickview, who will be demonstrating (and providing some hands-on experience with) their school network media distribution system. Please RSVP, to assist with catering.