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

[Mark KELLY]

'cos the off peak bandwidth is still bad ...

On 18 July 2012 15:01, Hutchison, Geoffrey G <
hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

>   Think a better analogy is your street is dual lane, with just you on
> it, but out on the feeder tollway (!) there are a zillion cars between 9
> and 3.30. Outside those hours, very few cars on the tollway or local street.
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> Which begs the question, Mark: why aren't your techies doing their
> downloads outside of school hours?
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> *From:* yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 July 2012 2:34 PM
> *To:* Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] U2O1- suggestions for next
> task with slow internet?
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> 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...
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> 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?
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> On 18 July 2012 12:45, Esther Andrews <ANDREWS.Esther at bssc.edu.au> wrote:
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> 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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> Mark Kelly
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Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
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