[Yr7-10it] BetterPlace.com - Better Mail!!

Wed Mar 25 09:33:23 EST 2009

Ros, as per usual, you have just given me a fabbo idea...direct the mail to folders...now, just to work out how!
I am one of those guilty of all the lists going to one email account...which I just now am slightly clearing (the system just gave me a subtle hint message!) I am on 4 lists...

good one girl!!

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Ros Meadows
Sent: Tue 3/24/2009 5:34 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] BetterPlace.com - Better Mail!!

I don't mind your posts Stephen, sometimes I delete, sometimes I keep.

I think a big problem for some members of these lists may be that they use their main school email to receive the mail from a number of lists and it does tend to get a bit overwhelming at times, and clog up your inbox.

To overcome this problem I initially used filters in Outlook which sent emails from each list straight into their own folder (so I had a 7-10 IT folder etc), but in the end I decided to create a new gmail which I only use for edulists (ros.meadows at gmail.com)

But that became painful as I have 4 gmail accounts (one for serious personal stuff eg my banks, one for fun personal stuff eg facebook, one for when I want to register accounts on unknown websites and another for edulists) and to log onto 4 gmail accounts and remember all the passwords became rather boring. It also meant if I wanted to quickly find an email I had to log onto gmail remember which account /password it is in etc 

Then I discovered Thunderbird - my 4 gmail accounts are now all collected and kept locally where I can delete to my hearts content, knowing that the original will always be on gmail - and each gmail has a storage of about 7 GB (so I have 28 GB of email storage!)

I have attached a screen shot and can thoroughly recommend Thunderbird http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ 

PS my home account is with optusnet and I am eventually converting all those legitimate senders who email me at that addy to my gmail accounts (I get over 500 spam emails per month via optusnet!!) This also means if I change ISP's at some future date I can do so without worrying about incoming mail bouncing back to the sender (except for the spam of course!!)

Gmail + Thunderbird = way to go!!

Cheers
Ros Meadows
Bentleigh SC

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote: 

	Hi Kent,

		Although I do enjoy your frequent posts of the topics you find,
		I tend to think that perhaps the OT list may be a better place
		for the posts.  Cheers Kent.

	Thanks for your opinion, Kent.

	So, then, perhaps you, and any other interested list subscribers, could
	advise what IT related topic IS off-topic to this Yr7-10 Info Tech list?

	Seems this may be one core issue. I know of no guidelines for this list,
	and unlike say Sofdev/English lists which revolve around a set syllabus,
	what IT related topics are 'off-topic' for Yr7-10 IT? 

	I take the view that ANY exciting new Info Tech application, which is 
	likely to interest kids, is useful for classes. And new electric cars,
	which download videos, and upload data regards being stolen .. *whilst
	being charged over your normal power lines, with NO other connections*
	and almost certain to hit Aussie streets within 2 years, to be of quite
	some interest, one may think, for practically any info tech class. Yes?

	Imho kids just looove that sort of IT stuff. Interesting, brand new and
	'space agey' haha. I don't work full time, and, have time to find such
	nuggets. I'm guessing perhaps others don't. So i share with colleagues
	whilst at the same time, thinking to build this on-line 7-10 community.

	So, if i'm wrong in helping like this, perhaps you might like to steer
	me to a definition of what exactly IS off-topic for year 7-10 infotech?

	If it's IT, and new and exciting, a brief mention, together with class
	discussion of associated info tech principles, makes IT classes buzz :)

	The seven *lovely* emails received privately re this do certainly seem
	to agree that a 'widely-based' IT approach, catering to kid's interests
	and, certainly their own immediate future regarding InfoTech, is right.

	On the other hand, the off-topic list, which is the off-topic list for
	all your edulist lists, (eg, English, Lit etc etc) will be bored by IT
	for the most part. (gasp!) So, in a sense, offtopic is offtopic to it?

	So my question is, how does one define 'off-topic' for our 7-10 IT list?

	Cheers people
	Stephen Loosley

		Pauline writes,

			Ta Stephen. This is fascinating. So it does seem quite probable that
			we will soon have a chain of Energy Stations (aka petrol stations) to
			power cars, with many other benefits as well. Eg, swap your car's
			batteries in 3 minutes (or we recharge it over a smart grid) and at
			the same time download a video into the car for the kids, and disable
			a stolen car from being recharged. They say the electricity would cost
			around one seventh of petrol, for the same distance, and all this with
			zero emissions in Australia (solar/wind power arrangements locked in).

			I'm not surprised that BetterPlace note, "We raised $200 million in a
			seed round, the largest seed round of any startup in history. We 

	raised

			a $135 million a week ago in Denmark to put the network in Denmark. So
			this is actually getting a lot of support, and a lot of funding."

			In Australia, they note, "Better Place has partnered with AGL Energy,
			which has Australia's largest portfolio of privately-owned renewable
			generation, and Macquarie, well known for making infrastructure
			investments around the globe. AGL will provide all of the renewable
			energy-from wind and other sources-needed to power the electric
			vehicles, and work with Better Place to optimize the network. 

	Macquarie

			will provide financial advice to help raise AUD $1 billion for the
			initial network build."  Only problem, as yet it will be a Renault :)

		Yes indeed Pauline. And apparently powering Australia's cars this way
		only adds 7 percent to the existing load on our power grid, and, this
		should mostly be done at night, when no one wants the power from wind.

		It all seems a win-win all round. Very peppy, and almost silent, cars
		with zero emissions & utilizing eco-friendly batteries with no exotic
		materials, so we just buy power they contain, and then give them back.

		And as you say it seems very likely to go ahead for us here in Aussie.

		However, I am sure that Renaults won't be the only cars available :-)

				Hi all,

				Here is an **outstanding** movement regarding our world's 

	environment.

				And as of today, Australia is right up there at the world's 

	forefront.

				For example: http://tiny.cc/GwSoi  and  

	http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/

				It's in regards to:

				 http://www.betterplace.com/

				 http://www.betterplace.com/our-bold-plan/how-it-works/electric-car

				Note: if your system prefers, http://tiny.cc/GwSoi is also known as:

				http://www.cnet.com.au/cartech/cars/0,2000438541,339294851,00.htm?
				feed=pt_better_place

				And, at this site, you may be delighted at the 'goodness' of this 

	idea.

				Here's another 

	www.greenlivingpedia.org/Australian_electric_car_network

				Good luck, BetterPlace.com, and Evan Thornley, the planet needs you.

		Cheers Pauline
		Stephen Loosley
		Victoria Australia

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