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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

For purely selfish reasons, I have been wondering if homes can get access
to this data? Have been craving one of those blinking light boxes that the
Carbon Cops used a couple of years ago.

Regards Roland

On 18 July 2012 15:05, Groves, Brett G <groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

>  Hi Esther,****
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> ** **
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> The connection through Netspace is slow but not THAT slow, at least in our
> experience. I’d be getting the techs to have a good look at your router
> settings.****
>
> Re offline data sets, one that you can get easy access to is the schools
> electricity account ring the power company and they will supply it in .csv
> form). The meters in schools monitor at 15 min intervals and send it off by
> a cellular data transponder attached to the power board. You can actually
> find out some quite interesting stuff with a decent visualisation…just a
> thought.****
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>
> Regards****
>
> Brett Groves****
>
> ICT Manager****
>
> Croydon Maroondah College ****
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> Croydon Campus****
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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?****
>
> ** **
>
> 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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>  ****
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> Has slow web access been an issue for any of you in government schools?***
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>  ****
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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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>  ****
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> Thanks,****
>
> Esther****
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