[Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Apologies that the scope of this email is for Vic State Schools. I am still
interested in your feedback. I was pleased to hear that our school has made
the brave decision to go move forward and not issues paper student diaries.
Just announced by the year level coordinator and some pleasing smiles by
the students. Interesting ..

I was interested to see in the Ultranet, the deep integration with the
calendar / events for organising and scheduling events. That is, when an
assessment or learning task is created then it propagates the Ultranet
student calendar with start and finish event dates. Importantly, it does
the same for the Ultranet parent calendar and dynamically updates itself as
tasks are modified by the teacher.  Another colleague just noted that using
their Ultranet ePortfolio (explore space) would have some further
interesting applications for reflective blogging about work and event
recording.

I was surprised to hear yesterday that instead, consideration is being
given to quickly deploy MS Outlook 2010 on all the student netbooks from
year 7 to 12 (along with associated training and mandated use). I am unsure
how fast or effective this will be, or if this is really practical
considering the benefits of the Ultranet for a larger audience of parents
and students.

I would like some feedback from other users of the Ultranet calendar
system, especially in relation to how this compares with an MS Outlook
Exchange based client system on student netbooks.

Brave and exciting world. :-)

Welcome to 2012

Regards Roland

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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
Mead
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