[Yr11 Information Technology] U2O1- suggestions for next task with slow internet?

[Mark KELLY]

Yes, the department gives us a 100Mbps pipeline, and our service provider
gives us a trickle of data along it.
It's like being given a new 8 lane freeway and a mule to use on it.
We alleviate things by having an ADSL connection to a 'real' ISP for the
techies to use for their BIG data transfers...

It's a shame that many of these good data sources can't be downloaded or
even cached.
Maybe try to find a data source which you can store locally?

On 18 July 2012 12:45, Esther Andrews <ANDREWS.Esther at bssc.edu.au> wrote:

> Our school joined the Department’s internet portal (terminology?) at the
> start of this year. I am finding it is too slow for students to do
> research. This Outcome 1 requires students to “select appropriate sources
> of data and identify relevant data”. Last year I gave them a list of
> websites that contained a range of datasets and asked them to select their
> data. Our web access is so slow I don’t think I can do that this year.****
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> Has slow web access been an issue for any of you in government schools?***
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> If so, how are you addressing this? Are you providing the students with
> the datasets?****
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> (I really don’t want to do this, but the situation here is intolerable!!)*
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> Thanks,****
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> Esther****
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