August 2006 Archive
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- Primary School Principals Reconsider A-E Reports
- (Tuesday 29th August 2006)
Primary school principals may withdraw support for the controversial A to E school report cards. (SMH - 25/8/06) - Fizzics Education
- (Tuesday 29th August 2006)
Some neat (and free) science experiments at this Sydney website. You can also book science lessons for your school, or check out their Teacher Development pack - Term 3 ICT Coordinator Meetings
- (Monday 28th August 2006)
Our Term 3 meetings will be held during Week 10, at Sutton Forest PS and Mt Terry PS. Guest speakers for these meetings will be Tim Anderson, Director, DET Information Services, and Aidan Dalgliesh, ITD Director, Business Relationship Management. - iWeb 2 - Feature Update Rumours
- (Monday 28th August 2006)
iWeb 2 users will be able to update their iWeb site from any web browser, as well as sending site updates from e-mail, and blog text and photos from their mobile phone to their iWeb site. - OASIS Continuity Project - Update
- (Friday 25th August 2006)
The OASIS Thin Client Pilot is part of the OASIS Continuity Project, and will provide schools with continued access to OASIS. This InPrincipal update provides further details abdout the progress of the project. (DET Intranet access required). - Ellen's Place - Student Intranet Site
- (Friday 25th August 2006)
A sample student Intranet site, created with iWeb - a great tool for publishing web pages on school Intranets, for both teachers and students. Integrates with other iLife applications for easy publishing of web pages, photo albums, e-portfolios and podcasts to your OS X Sites folder. - iLife Tutorials
- (Monday 21st August 2006)
Learn the basics of the iLife suite with these tutorials. These short Quicktime movies provide assistance for novices to get started with iPhoto, GarageBand, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD and iTunes. - Latest NSWTF Info on Student Reports
- (Friday 18th August 2006)
The NSW Teachers Federation is advising schools to "disengage from all implementation processes, including any DET or Board of Studies training activities, that relate to the State and Federal governments' flawed student reporting system". This site includes a discussion forum about student reporting, a copy of the fax sent to schools, and a podcast from the NSWTF president.
See also:
DET information about student reporting
SMH report of Principal's concerns.
- Macintosh Utilities and Scripts
- (Monday 14th August 2006)
Some great stuff here for OS X network administrators ......
Server Cleanup - allows you to correct users' Home folder permissions, redirect caches to local HDs, distribute/remove files to/from Home folders, etc;
Purge Homes - cleans up the Home folders of deleted users;
KidPixFolderRedir - redirects the default Kid Pix 4 saving location to the user's Home folder, rather than the Kid Pix folder.
- Server Admin Tools 10.4.7
- (Wednesday 9th August 2006)
Universal binary update for MacOS X server administration applications. You can update an exisiting Server Admin Tools installation with the Software Update service, or download the full installer from this site. - Latest Apple Stuff
- (Wednesday 9th August 2006)
New Intel Xeon Mac Pros & xServes, and a sneak peek at OSX 10.5. You can also watch the video of Steve's opening address to the 2006 WWDC - check out the new Time Machine and iChat features! - Interactive Whiteboards - DET Standards and Directions
- (Monday 7th August 2006)
Your chance to provide some feedback on the use of interactive whiteboards in schools, with a view to the "potential standardisation" (!) and recommendations for DET schools. (DET Intranet access required) - OmniGraffle (Mac)
- (Monday 7th August)
Fully featured flowcharting and diagramming software. Include up to 20 items without registration. - Gliffy Flowcharts
- (Monday 7th August 2006)
- Another example of "on-line software" - draw and share flowcharts, floor plans, network diagrams, etc, all through a web browser.
ajaxWrite- (Wednesday 2nd August 2006)
Could this be the future of software? A web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats.Requires the Firefox browser. (See also ajaxSketch, ajaxXLS and the other ajax offerings at this site. -
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