Thanks Stephen, .. and we should add continue spending squillions to support their software projects. Sadly, the educational landscape is covered with the bones and parched remains of many good projects launched with good intentions and early funding. I honestly wish Ultranet all the best but must admit to having having some serious doubts about its long term viability .. aware that it wont serve the needs of my Catholic and Independent school friends on this list. Whilst NASA got a man on the moon by throwing money at all and every problem .. even they stopped to take a breath and rethink the mad race by forming strategic partnerships with a wider community instead of reinventing the wheel.
<br><br>Whilst open source solutions may not suit everybody, they do have nothing to hide and provide avenues to grow and develop beyond the original project brief. Solutions such as <a href="http://moodle.org">Moodle </a>
can scale from small sites such as primary schools to Major enterprises such as the Open University. With any content or course management system, users can only get out of it from what they are prepared to put into it. As I now remind my student teachers, Windows is just an operating system, Cola is just lemonade, Moodle is just another tool .. now get out there, inspire, raise hell and make a real difference!
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 08/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Digby</b> <<a href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Waiting for a reply from Mark Kelly (<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
</a>) as McKinnon<br>is one of the development schools for this.<br>Many previous discussions in the past from me and others (others and I ?)<br>can be found at <a href="http://www.edulists.com.au/htdig">http://www.edulists.com.au/htdig
</a><br><br>An Australian open source "ultranet" racehorse "Moodle" is running<br>wonderfully in Oz and around the world. I just hope that DET is not<br>investing squillions of our dollars and time in another CASES camel which we
<br>will all be forced to use to justify the investment....<br><br>There is the additional problem that Ultranet is likely to be proprietary<br>(user pays); closed source (no control over tweaking/ options or<br>development).
<br><br>What IS happening !!!!<br><br>============================================================================<br>==========<br>Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager<br><a href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">
digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><br>Cheltenham Secondary College <a href="http://www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au">www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au</a> Ph: 613 955 55 955 Fx:<br>9555 8617<br>============================================================================
<br>==========<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
] On<br>Behalf Of Robyn Dunn<br>Sent: 07 July 2006 03:11 PM<br>To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management<br>Teachers'Mailing List<br>Subject: [Year 12 IPM] ultranet<br><br>Has anyone heard of this new ultranet idea. This is a web site about it.
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