[Year 12 IT Apps] RE: Google docs issue

[Royce Williams]

actually the bonfire is great

just a few comments from the posts comming through

roland is not a tech he is one of me ... tho younger and better looking
The old style Computer coordinator teacher .. i/we date from when the strange bearded maths or science teacher started IT in schools
He is the one in the college who should be getting the new ideas and technology... then its handed over to the Techs.

Sorry about my spelling ever tried typing on a 3inch screen on an iPhone with a broken wrist roflmao

And Robert Tim-A does understand what i am on about. As the system manager my job is to supply a stable network for the whole college. Its a balance between individual wants and the overall good. And Tech time is always a rarity

If i told a classroom teacher that sorry he cant work today becuase i have to reimage all the laptop sets and get all his work as well back from backup he would be at the principals office before you could say Symantec.
If it was from my negligence i would not get a payincrease for another 7 years. Plus delaying a Year12 students
would probably get me sued.
I have a significant investment in backup systems and i could get the main systems up fast. However the sheer size of student storage, particularly in multimedia is making it impossible to backup in the required time .. I think i have about 7 Terabytes on line.

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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] RE: Google docs issue

2008/12/8 Ros Meadows <ros.meadows at gmail.com<mailto:ros.meadows at gmail.com>>
I am sorry if I started a bonfire!
>From reading everyone's posts, there are obviously very varying opinions.

Ultimately you only need to look at what Roland has achieved at Westall, in a school which is not rich (in monetary terms), and must deal with the same security issues as the rest of us. Yet given the opportunity to adopt a new idea, application or online website, Roland does not question with "Will this work? "What is the educational value of this?" "Will this compromise the security of my system?" or "will this be adopted by students and/or staff?"

No, he thinks "that would be cool" and therefore dives headfirst into the latest and greatest "stuff" on offer, giving his students and staff choices in what operating system, software, search engine and online apps they use.

I admire and envy you so much Roland - you create more educational opportunities for your students by giving them more options, than other schools who have so many more (financial) resources.

Someone said to me at the conference 'Microsoft, the drug dealers of the software kingdom - "your first hit is on us kiddies"' - and so our kids pirate MS software so they can have it at home, because they think they need it, but can't afford it - not good! Show them there are legal and free alternatives such as Google docs or Open Office and they won't be guilty of software piracy!!

Cheers
Ros

I agree - three cheers for Roland.
Great stuff
Peter

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