[Year 12 IPM] ultranet

[Damien A-B]

It looks pretty much like a web portal and doument management system to
me..... Kinda like sharepoint, which is a lot cheaper and easier to
implement IMHO

Cheers

Damien Atkinson-Buck

IT Department

Keilor Downs College


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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Monday, 10 July 2006 5:59 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] ultranet


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. 

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 Moodle  <http://moodle.org> 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! 

Regards Roland


On 08/07/06, Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote: 

Waiting for a reply from Mark Kelly (kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
<mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> ) as McKinnon
is one of the development schools for this.
Many previous discussions in the past from me and others (others and I ?)
can be found at http://www.edulists.com.au/htdig
<http://www.edulists.com.au/htdig> 

An Australian open source "ultranet" racehorse "Moodle" is running
wonderfully in Oz and around the world. I just hope that DET is not
investing squillions of our dollars and time in another CASES camel which we

will all be forced to use to justify the investment....

There is the additional problem that Ultranet is likely to be proprietary
(user pays); closed source (no control over tweaking/ options or
development). 

What IS happening !!!!

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Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager
digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx:
9555 8617
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-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au ] On
Behalf Of Robyn Dunn
Sent: 07 July 2006 03:11 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] ultranet

Has anyone heard of this new ultranet idea. This is a web site about it. 
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/blueprint/fs1/s@c.htm




Ms Robyn Dunn
ICT Co-Ordinator
Camberwell High School
email: du at camhigh.vic.edu.au
phone: 98360555
fax: 98360194


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