http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/ TAS-IT: IT in education, Tasmania Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:54 GMT martin chambers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4004 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4004 Agree Ken - Had a small group it in last year that thoroughly enjoyed it.... doing the same this year. This time there are sections for absolute beginners as Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:52:09 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4003 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4003 This may be of interest. http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/ "Learn to program in Python while you compete! The School of IT at the University of Sydney is running a Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:28:30 GMT Loenneker, Philip S http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4002 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4002 It may well be the best option available at the moment. You might be able to go to a per user license, but there are more users than devices, and you would Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:01:28 GMT Barrows, Eric J http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4001 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4001 OMG, if what you say is true, and it does trigger a decade old memory (purchasing WinNT4 licence) then somebody has been very very silly to get us into such a Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:35:32 GMT Loenneker, Philip S http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4000 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4000 Hi Eric, The license I'm talking about is not the server license... it's a Client Access License (CAL). Each client, regardless of hardware or software used, Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:21:20 GMT Barrows, Eric J http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3999 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3999 Hi Philip, Ok so forget the Linux bit, I was just thinking of the Eeepc. We'll go Macbook. And where you see open source, read; Gimp, Inscape, Joomla, Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:49:38 GMT Loenneker, Philip S http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3998 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3998 Hi Eric, I have only had a quick look at your document, but on the point of saving money by going to open source etc, it's not as simple as changing the Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:10:48 GMT Barrows, Eric J http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3997 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3997 http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df5s8hmr_20hdc2mqf9 Here's a link to our draft strategic plan, if it's of help to anybody tyring to structure theirs. Note a Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:15:32 GMT Loenneker, Philip S http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3996 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3996 Hi Eric, I have seen one of these units in a school, and one at training. It is a pretty good little unit... it gives individual sound, video, keyboard and Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:03:13 GMT Bales, Jennie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3995 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3995 Game playing became an issue at my school last year when students were playing a variety of games, some quite violent at lunch and after school in the library, Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:13:46 GMT Barrows, Eric J http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3994 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3994 Is anybody using ncomputings X series? http://www.ncomputing.com/Xseries.aspx may be a way of cutting down on the Microsoft agreement. (we only pay per Pentium Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:31:29 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3993 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3993 Thanks Eric The document that you refer to is a national one, so it is necessarily general, but I'm wondering how school plans will focus on something more Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:28:51 GMT Bowes, Janine A http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3992 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3992 Hi again THe DET funds (as advised by our ITS consultant) must be used to achieve the specified computer to student ratio. The unit price allocation is $1000 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:59:16 GMT Ian Williams http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3991 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3991 Life is a game where your decisions have major consequences. With game playing the children at least learn the consequence of their actions. With no real Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:40:04 GMT Barrows, Eric J http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3990 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/3990 Hi Rosemary, For a game to succeed these days it has to educate about something because learning is fun. A biological fact that Nintendo are taking to the