[Year 12 IPM] Audacity

[Soufi, Amin A1]

Hi all,
I wear both hats, being an IT Teacher as well as a technician/engineer who worked at school for many years.
the issue should never be teacher vs technician, the IT Co-ordinator or IT Manager would be the point of contact, if the processes are in place, the It co-ordinator/Manager would collect requests from teachers before start of term or at the end of term for the next, regarding software they wan to use than it is negotiated and either end up being a part of a new image to be rolled to all or group of computers, while taking into consideration legal requirements like licenses etc.
 
A school Tech's contacts are mostly students and then teachers, with many responsibilities, unless an agreed process takes place, either things stay the same or your technician move on to somewhere else, in either case it could be a loose-loose situation.
 
A co-ordinator, who happens to also be a teacher, is well situated to advise other teachers and offer alternatives and can act like a safety buffer that would make things lot easier.
 
Regards
Amin Soufi
IPM,VETINFO,SOSE Teacher Deer Park Secondary

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From: Nick Axaris [mailto:na at willihigh.vic.edu.au]
Sent: Thu 23/02/06 9:21 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Audacity



WEIR Andrew wrote:
> Whilst I agree that Audacity is a fantastic program and that the use of
> it should be encouraged. I am a little concerned at how this Subject is
> starting to descend in to an attack on technicians or more specifically
> a technician.
>  
It's not a personal attack per se it's about who runs the school.
the technician or the teachers?




> I do agree that it is a curriculum issue as to what software should be
> installed and why. Consideration as to the technical issues should be
> made but as all ready experienced and mentioned there is not much that
> audacity won't run on. Having also experienced these circumstances first
> hand I do know it is frustrating.
>
> I believe that we need to stay on track with the discussion and avoid
> the use of personal attacks. We do also need to be careful simply
> because we don't know all of the people who read these emails. I know my
> technicians certainly do.
> 
>  
That's a good thing because maybe the individual at hand can then
understand that he is not god and is answerable to the school and it's
curriculum needs and not his personal agendas.



> Andrew
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