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color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>girls are
no-where as destructive as boys! - so true....
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color=#0000ff size=2>"The first creative act of a child is to destroy the work
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color=#0000ff size=2>---- ever built a sand castle or bock stack for a baby
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digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au<BR>Cheltenham Secondary College
www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955 Fx: 9555
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>All that glisters is not gold. - Shakespeare: From The
Merchant of Venice (II, vii) Portia is a beautiful, virtuous, wealthy woman who
is being wooed by numerous suitors. She is not free to decide on her own whom
she will marry because her late father ... </DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Lesley
Humphries<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 6 May 2006 11:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Year 12
Information Technology Processing and ManagementTeachers' Mailing
List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Year 12 IPM] Staffing for IT Support/Technician
Team<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi Lucy,<BR><BR>At Santa Maria College, we are lucky to have a very
good non-teaching technician who has a degree in IT. He does just about
everything, from networking, security, physical repairs, purchasing, software
evaluation and staff and student support... he's great. We recently decided to
put on an IT trainee (he works full time, but gets paid to go to TAFE one day a
week, or less). He is also great value. The only time we get outside support is
when we extend the network - we employ a cabling company to lay the cables. The
same company arranged our CCTV.<BR><BR>I am the e-learning co-ordinator, and I
am the link between the technician and the staff. I also do PD. It is a POL 2
position. We also have a portal manager who is also a teacher with time
release.<BR><BR>Our staff were all provided with laptops at the start of last
year. They are expected to take them to class with them as we do on-line
attendances each lesson.<BR><BR>We have about 900 students, and about 22! 0
desktop computers available in various classrooms, labs and hubs etc for
students, so I guess our ratio is about 1:4 or so.<BR><BR>I know that many
schools our size employ three or more people to do the work that our one
technician does. I think one of the reasons that he is able to do such a good
job is that we are very strict with security. Students can't download programs
or any large files; neither can staff without permission. We are also lucky that
we are a girls's school - girls are no-where as destructive as boys!<BR><BR>Hope
this helps<BR><BR>Lesley<BR><BR>> Hi All,<BR>> <BR>> The admin at my
school (Aitken College) want to re-structure the IT<BR>> Support/Technician
department. The school has grown over the years which<BR>> has resulted in a
large increase in the number of computers on the school<BR>> network.<BR>>
<BR>> I was wondering if anyone out there could provide me with the
following<BR>> information relating to their place of ! employment.<BR>>
<BR>> How is the IT Support/Technician teams st ructured at your school? What
are<BR>> the ratios for PC numbers to number of students and PC numbers
to<BR>> Technicians? Do you have only internal I.T support or are you
provided<BR>> with support from external parties (i.e. experts).<BR>>
<BR>> One last request, are your staff provided with Desktop computers or
Laptops?<BR>> <BR>> Thank you<BR>> <BR>> Lucy Gusak<BR>> Head of
Inforamtion Technology Faculty<BR>> Aitken College<BR>>
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