[elearning] [Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries

Fri Feb 3 16:15:01 EST 2012

When I was teaching I used to use Excel - it worked very well for me.

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[mailto:elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland
Gesthuizen
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 4:09 PM
To: elearning Teachers' Mailing List; itapps at edulists.com.au
Subject: Re: [elearning] [Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries

Thanks Cameron. I use GoogleApps to create events for meetings and it
integrates and works nicely with friends who use Outlook Exchange to
share meetings etc. I create and share different Google Calendar for
Timetables, Work, Professional, ICTEV, Scouts and other groups I work
with. Not sure if there is much merit in students doing this though ..
would like them to focus more on the learning task events that I set. I
had fun using Moodle for many years and look forward to seeing how it
pans out with Ultranet with the Calendar module.

Jarrod, a PDF document I think that is the low tech kind of thing I
could be looking at for my Markbook. Anybody else using a mash of
spreadsheets, dropbox or other docs for their record keeping? Somebody
sent me a note that they use DreamWeaver .. Now there is a thought, run
my own server on the laptop .. 

Regards Roland

On 3 February 2012 11:17, Cameron Bell
<bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

That data duplication isn't going to lead to any inconsistencies at all
is it?  ;)

Multiple calendars recording the same events is fundamentally flawed
imho.

Cheers

Cameron

On 03/02/2012, at 9:51 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:

	No, I guess that students would need to copy over and update all
the dates or staff would need to verbally direct that they enter them
into their exchange calendar.

	Anne, I have had some luck with the help desk getting answers to
technical questions and the online support pages (last icon, second
option from the bottom). It does look like that there have been some big
improvements with the Ultranet system over the Nov and Jan update cycle
with the aims to improve integration and parent / student communication.

	Regards Roland

	On 3 February 2012 09:30, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

	Roland - do you know if the intention is that Ultranet calendar
events would be pushed automatically to the studnets Exchange calendars?
Or would they run as independent calendars?

	Ken 
	Tasmanian eSchool

	On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:

		Apologies that the scope of this email is for Vic State
Schools. I am still interested in your feedback. I was pleased to hear
that our school has made the brave decision to go move forward and not
issues paper student diaries. Just announced by the year level
coordinator and some pleasing smiles by the students. Interesting ..

		I was interested to see in the Ultranet, the deep
integration with the calendar / events for organising and scheduling
events. That is, when an assessment or learning task is created then it
propagates the Ultranet student calendar with start and finish event
dates. Importantly, it does the same for the Ultranet parent calendar
and dynamically updates itself as tasks are modified by the teacher.
Another colleague just noted that using their Ultranet ePortfolio
(explore space) would have some further interesting applications for
reflective blogging about work and event recording.

		I was surprised to hear yesterday that instead,
consideration is being given to quickly deploy MS Outlook 2010 on all
the student netbooks from year 7 to 12 (along with associated training
and mandated use). I am unsure how fast or effective this will be, or if
this is really practical considering the benefits of the Ultranet for a
larger audience of parents and students.

		I would like some feedback from other users of the
Ultranet calendar system, especially in relation to how this compares
with an MS Outlook Exchange based client system on student netbooks.

		Brave and exciting world. :-)

		Welcome to 2012

		Regards Roland

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