That raises two fascinating issues that are worth raising with your students. As my teacher-librarian is at pains to point out when I explored backing up the school video collection, we shouldn't confuse issues of archiving with those for digital storage.
<br><br>Good archiving demands the skills of a highly trained and experienced individual to maintain, prune and perhaps the oversee the ultimate
destruction of data in the archive. The expectation that a school will to archive all the student electronic portfolios work for remote access beyond their term of stay is probably unreasonable. Commercial software vendors would like to make us think
that a one stop solution will continue to be
supported for another decade and serve school needs. Only a few schools had a website 10 years
ago, I wont try to predict where we will be in another 10. In 20 years we may laugh at many of our quaint ideas and practices.<br><br>Another issue is that of digital decay. T<strong style="font-weight: normal;">oday's digital documents face a more serious threat: the disappearance of computers and software able to read them.
</strong> Some of my older documents can already no longer be read by MS Office (the list of file imports is getting smaller with each release). With perhaps some scorn leveled at me by colleagues, I have taken the lead from the Australian National Library and insist on using a standards driven format called OpenDocument to archive my work for long term storage. Without emulators, I will happily buy a bunch of flowers in 2020 for anybody who will still be able to open my first experiments with Kahootz. (We cannot legally copy, redistribute or media shift commercial software on that .. hmm, was it called a CDROM?) If only I could get Easycal working again, I could recover my first ever spreadsheet .. then again, I could always start with Load Runner and
<font size="-1">Canyon Climber </font>.. where did I put that 5.25" drive hmm :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joseph Papaleo</b> <<a href="mailto:josephpapaleo@gmail.com">
josephpapaleo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Moodle sounds great, but I'm not familiar enough with it, therefore the question...
<br>Can students continue to use thier moodle page after leaving the school?<br><br><br><br>Thanks <br>Joseph Papaleo<br>Ivanhoe Grammar School
<div><span class="e" id="q_10e9940725e88df6_1"><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Digby</b> <<a href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Digital portfolios are a breeze with moodle.... Just
create a course called ePortfolio and create as many sections as you wish.
Automatically students have a secure private place to add text, graphics and
multimedia content.....</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I have even added a section for parents to view all their
past reports online.....</font></span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lesley
Humphries<br><b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2006 11:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> Year 12
Information Technology Processing and ManagementTeachers' Mailing
List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT<br></font><br></div><div><span>
<div></div>Hello everyone,<br><br>Now that the IPM classes are over, I've been
looking more carefully at the VELS stuff. From Level 3, our students are meant
to be keeping a digital bank of evidence... How are others going to work this?
Any ideas?<br><br>Thanks, Lesley<br><br>> Michael,<br>> <br>> We are
about to do this at Kew High School. We will use either Wax (open<br>>
source) or we also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Our drama assistant<br>>
experienced with a few different colour backgrounds and she has decided<br>>
on a green colour which she matched with one of the settings from Wax.<br>>
<br>> Bruce<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>
________________________________<br>> <br>> From:
<a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]<br>> On
Behalf Of Michael Torsello (Mr)<br>> Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 9:37
AM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:ipm@fhc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ipm@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] OT: Green
Screening with computers<br>> <br>> > <br>> Dear Colleagues<br>> <br>> I have an Off Topic question
that I hope someone can answer.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> My Drama
teacher would like to invest in some computer technology that<br>> allows for
green (or blue) screen editing i.e., filming actors in front<br>> of a green
screen and allowing the computer user to change the<br>> background. You
would have heard of it being used in films and for<br>> weather
reports.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> However we have a disagreement as to
the requirements of such a project<br>> regarding software, computer specs
etc. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Does anyone know of a school that has
successfully implemented such a<br>> project, perhaps in their Drama or Media
Studies department?<br>> <br>> I would love to hear from them, with the
possibility of a visit.<br>> <br>> ----------------------------------
<br>> With thanks <br>> Michael Torsello <br>> ! Director of Computing
<br>> St Margaret's School, Berwick <br>> Ph: (03) 9703 8111 <br>>
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