[Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries

[Robert Timmer-Arends]

Hello Roland

we are using outlook calendar system across the board now. Our 10-12 students no longer have paper diaries. I am not sure how well it works yet but reason given was that it is in-house on our intranet so it much faster than ultranet which is very slow apparently. It also integrates with our sharepoint intranet.

Regards
Robert T-A
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roland Gesthuizen 
  To: itapps at edulists.com.au ; eLearning mailing list 
  Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:19 AM
  Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Student diaries


  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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  Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College

  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead



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