July 2002 Archive Apple iMovie Stuff (Monday 29th July 2002) Heaps of iMovie stuff, including free tutorials, transitions, effects and sounds. Commonwealth Games Links (Monday 29th July 2002) Links to a variety of sites supporting the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. NSW Farmers - Yibbles WebQuest (Friday 26th July 2002) An online learning resource to help students learn about farm practices and the relationships between producers and both local and global consumers. Registration: Monday, 24 June- Friday, 02 August Website active: Monday, 19 August - Friday, 27 September Bureau of Meterology (Wednesday 24th July 2002) Some useful resources for your unit of work on weather - or use the online radar to check approaching rain storms for your school athletics carnival! The Vinson Inquiry Into Public Education (Wednesday 24th July 2002) Professor Tony Vinson continues to release reports, based on his recent inquiry into public education. The most recent items include discussion relating to school counselors and selective schools. Computers in Schools Program - Budget Update (40k Word Doc) (Friday 5th July 2002) This document from Hansard (20th June) provides an overview of recent Budget announcements relating to the NSW Government's Computers in Schools Program. (Not a bad off-the-cuff response for a "Question without Notice"!) SilverKeeper (Mac) (Friday 5th July 2002) NOW is a good time to be thinking about backing up your Mac server. This neat utility automates backups to external hard disks, etc with USB, SCSI or Firewire interfaces (OS9 and OSX). Free DET School Network Funding Allocation (Thursday 4th July 2002) All DET schools in NSW have been advised, via e-mail, of a funding allocation for Local Area Network upgrades. Independent contractors will visit each school to inspect existing network infrastructure and advise Principals of any rectification procedures required. Updating an Assimilator Image for OS 9.2 iMacs (Wednesday 3rd July 2002) New iMacs may not be able to be assimilated into a school lab until the existing MacOS 9.1 disk image is updated to MacOS 9.2.       Back to headlines