[Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT

Wed Nov 1 09:08:48 EST 2006

Digital Decay is certainly a serious issue for schools (and historians).I
don't think there are many schools seriously considering the consequences
of this.

Margaret

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Another issue is that of digital decay. T*oday's digital documents face a
> more serious threat: the disappearance of computers and software able to
> read them.* 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 Canyon Climber .. where did I put that 5.25" drive
> hmm
> :-)
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 30/10/06, Joseph Papaleo <josephpapaleo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Moodle sounds great, but I'm not familiar enough with it, therefore the
>> question...
>> Can students continue to use thier moodle page after leaving the school?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joseph Papaleo
>> Ivanhoe Grammar School
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/06, Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >  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.....
>> > I have even added a section for parents to view all their past reports
>> > online.....
>> >
>> >
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>> >  ------------------------------
>> > *From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>> > *On Behalf Of *Lesley Humphries
>> > *Sent:* 27 October 2006 11:41 AM
>> > *To:* Year 12 Information Technology Processing and
>> ManagementTeachers'
>> > Mailing List
>> > *Subject:* [Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > Thanks, Lesley
>> >
>> > > Michael,
>> > >
>> > > We are about to do this at Kew High School. We will use either Wax
>> > (open
>> > > source) or we also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Our drama assistant
>> > > experienced with a few different colour backgrounds and she has
>> > decided
>> > > on a green colour which she matched with one of the settings from
>> Wax.
>> > >
>> > > Bruce
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ________________________________
>> > >
>> > > From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
>> ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> > ]
>> > > On Behalf Of Michael Torsello (Mr)
>> > > Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 9:37 AM
>> > > To: ipm at fhc.vic.edu.au
>> > > Subject: [Year 12 IPM] OT: Green Screening with computers
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > Dear Colleagues
>> > >
>> > > I have an Off Topic question that I hope someone can answer.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > My Drama teacher would like to invest in some computer technology
>> that
>> > > allows for green (or blue) screen editing i.e., filming actors in
>> > front
>> > > of a green screen and allowing the computer user to change the
>> > > background. You would have heard of it being used in films and for
>> > > weather reports.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > However we have a disagreement as to the requirements of such a
>> > project
>> > > regarding software, computer specs etc.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone know of a school that has successfully implemented such
>> a
>> > > project, perhaps in their Drama or Media Studies department?
>> > >
>> > > I would love to hear from them, with the possibility of a visit.
>> > >
>> > > ----------------------------------
>> > > With thanks
>> > > Michael Torsello
>> > > ! Director of Computing
>> > > St Margaret's School, Berwick
>> > > Ph: (03) 9703 8111
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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>> > ___________________________________________________________
>> > Ms Lesley Humphries
>> > Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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