[Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT

Wed Nov 1 00:33:54 EST 2006

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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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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