[Year 12 IT Apps] [elearning] Student diaries

Fri Feb 3 16:09:23 EST 2012

Thanks Cameron. I use GoogleApps to create events for meetings and it
integrates and works nicely with friends who use Outlook Exchange to share
meetings etc. I create and share different Google Calendar for Timetables,
Work, Professional, ICTEV, Scouts and other groups I work with. Not sure if
there is much merit in students doing this though .. would like them to
focus more on the learning task events that I set. I had fun using Moodle
for many years and look forward to seeing how it pans out with Ultranet
with the Calendar module.

Jarrod, a PDF document I think that is the low tech kind of thing I could
be looking at for my Markbook. Anybody else using a mash of spreadsheets,
dropbox or other docs for their record keeping? Somebody sent me a note
that they use DreamWeaver .. Now there is a thought, run my own server on
the laptop ..

Regards Roland

On 3 February 2012 11:17, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

> That data duplication isn't going to lead to any inconsistencies at all is
> it?  ;)
> Multiple calendars recording the same events is fundamentally flawed imho.
> Cheers
> Cameron
>
>
> On 03/02/2012, at 9:51 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>
> No, I guess that students would need to copy over and update all the dates
> or staff would need to verbally direct that they enter them into their
> exchange calendar.
>
> Anne, I have had some luck with the help desk getting answers to technical
> questions and the online support pages (last icon, second option from the
> bottom). It does look like that there have been some big improvements with
> the Ultranet system over the Nov and Jan update cycle with the aims to
> improve integration and parent / student communication.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 3 February 2012 09:30, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Roland - do you know if the intention is that Ultranet calendar events
>> would be pushed automatically to the studnets Exchange calendars? Or would
>> they run as independent calendars?
>>
>> Ken
>> Tasmanian eSchool
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College
>>>
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>>> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
>>> Mead
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