05.DER+Digi.Ed.Rev.

= All THINGS WEB 2.0 TOOLS.. places to engage.. [] Week 5 Year 9 Meeting Tuesday Preparing for the Arrival of the "Netties" 1.rbsclaptops for learning Policy. = = 2.PPT for meeting = ===Parent: The Digital Revolution Information Night Information Night for Year 9 & 7 22nd September 2009 Commissioning in schools begins.Today and yesterday! Photos from Syd.Boys.===

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DAY ONE Over and We have learnt lots about commissioning the Laptops. 1. First Tip. Read all the documentation before you turn up to commission your laptop. Are you fully transversed! 2. Watch the video on how to commission. 3. Arrive on time to your designated slot. 4. We are trying to rotate staff through. Be prepared to give away a period to this process. It takes a period easily.Sorry! not our doing!. = LAPTOPS have arrived. Commissioning of Laptops (T1) will begin. Thursday and Friday. = 1.All nominated staff contacted by the TTL Coordinator and advised to visit the Digital Education Revolution NSW website and view the information in “Roll Out Schedule” about Teacher Rollout (T1). Particularly the Laptop commissioning VODCAST and INFORMATION PACK in preparation for the laptop arrival and commissioning. 2 Relevant pages photocopied from the Information Pack and issued to staff. 3. Arrival and sign off of receipt of Laptops. Device manager contacted to sign receipt. Boxes not opened at this stage. Using the list provided by the Principal, SASS personnel write name of an allocated staff member onto each box. The number of each laptop unit is recorded against the teacher allocation list. 4. Laptops stored in boxes in secure area. 5. Device Manger enters the teacher/ laptop number registration details into RMU. 6. Set aside one day for teacher commissioning of laptops. Area is set up with 7 data ports, cabling as required and power for each laptop. 7. In groups of 5 or 6, teachers are rostered through the day of laptop allocation with the Device Manager. The video is shown to each group and each group is stepped and monitored through the process. Each staff member will be commissioning their own laptop. Signing of the loan register, information paperwork and IT Help processes are also explained to each group. 8. Staff take home their commissioned laptop in the issued box to charge and use. They are responsible for the disposal of the cardboard packing box.

THE LINK to the DET #DER. []



VODCAST on how to commission the laptops.

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Update for our Digital Revolution. Week 10 Laptops begin to arrive Monday 28th. Wednesday at Exec, will be the first group to commission the laptops.

Digital Education revolution 'state of Play' Week 8. Term 2.

We have to make a number of decisions in regards to the DER for RBSC. We will need to make decisions on the allocation of 25 teacher laptops before the end of the term and make decisions where the 18 wireless points are to go. Update, we are getting 18 points which is fantastic, they are to go into Learning spaces, however will be trying to flag staff points as well. See the updated rooms

Wireless Points as per rooming across Faculties.
B BLOCK A BLOCK= C BLOCK
 * English; B510, B513 & B501
 * Science:B403 B406 & B413
 * PE: C204 & C102 (yes onthe AMUplan
 * History:Languages A717 & A713
 * Maths:A611 & A617
 * Visual Arts; A708 & A704
 * TAS: A521
 * Social Science: A724 and A719:
 * Music: C212

Which equals 18. Please feed back your discussion on the discussion thread started.

25 allocated laptops based on Faculty spread/ HTs to verify teacher + Priority to Tech team faculty member.
Science 3: Lucy/Gifford, Ry, Tim. English 3: Wendy,Anna, Jeff Maths 3: Bill, Mango, & Sandy Social Science 2: Kelly (Tech team member) and McMurray (HT and Teacher) //(Judith Burke is also a tech team member?)// History/languages 2 Paula & Louise Creative Arts: 3 Donna, Lina, Deb if spare one to Maria PE 2: Ian and Mel DPS/Princ. 3 Library: 1- Kathy Tas 3:- Gary and Ray and Niki/Maria.

Please feed back your ideas and the teacher who will allocated in this first phase. Social Science feedback: Allocate the 25 laptops to the Tech Team members (Kelly / Burke) and HT's (as HT's are meant to be the leaders of their department, the old saying 'lead by example') :) History: Tech team members and then year 9 teachers who express interest. Ian Just moved this to the spot.. good work! My 2 cents ... 1. I think Tech. committee members should all get one ... then each faculty according to staff ratio - under the care of Head teacher. As for room I would like to nominate C102/103 ... especially if as it is a partioned room if we can use both room for the price of one ...??? regards, Ian

Laptop Roll out Very Important Information. Imperative that teachers read.




Some great ideas for L4L (Laptops 4 learning) Now renamed #DER.


 * 1) [[image:http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/184047476/twitdpicnew_normal.jpg height="48" caption="Twitdpicnew_normal" link="http://twitter.com/Darcy1968"]] [|Darcy1968] [|**#L4L**] The Best of 1:1 Advice video[] Thanks to everyone who tweeted a suggestion. //[|1 day ago]from [|web] //

10 things a DET teacher can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms
May 16, 2009 by [|darcymoore] This will be the first in a series of posts designed to help our whole school community gain the full benefit of the rollout of laptops. This year there will be hundreds of laptops flooding into our school and wireless connectivity. We have been [|preparing] for quite a while now and will continue to do so. The pace quickens though and we, each individual, needs to focus on their own particular challenge(s). 1. **Develop a ** **PLN ** – Ongoing collaboration is the best way to stay up to date and developing a [|//Personal Learning Network//]is essential. You really need to start now and I have found [|Twitter] to be invaluable. Quite simply, the concept of a [|virtuous circle] is in in operation here when you establish a PLN (and you will lose ground, so to speak, in the classroom, if you do not have a network to support professional learning).*** 2.** Understand the concept of a PLE **– Students will need to develop their//[|Personal Learning Environment]// and become independent of the teacher rather than being [|aliterate]. Read more about 21st century learning environments in detail [|here]. Another ‘way of seeing’ is to read about the [|toolbelt] students will have to assist learning. 3.** MOODLE **– familiarise yourself with how other staff are using this [|LMS] and build courses through preparing lessons and units of work. 4.** Dialogue **– talk with staff who are enthusiatic and making good progress with digital learning personally. Ask for advice and assistance. Check out one of their lessons. Ask what [|Professional Associations] are doing to support their members. 5.** Dialogue - **talk with students, individually and in groups about how having a laptop will change learning and lessons. Seek their ideas. Spread the word of how[|they] will be more [|independent and self-directed]. 6.** Delicious **– You should create [|an account] and add others to your network. Support [|our collective endeavours] at the school to build a great collection of websites for staff to use. Seek help if you need to know more or watch this [|video]. Do you know the school Delicious account password? Make sure you tag effectively. 7.** 10 minutes **– Learn how to use [|RSS feeds] and make 10 minutes a day to check your [|Google Reader] account for posts from Edubloggers and pertinent websites you have feeds from. Here’s a [|video] to help. [|Kelli’s blog] has a good post about laptops and is an example of how DET colleagues share their experiences and knowledge. [|Tim Hand], [|Elaine Talbert], [|Tony Searl]and [|Melissa Giddens] are DET bloggers too. Organise RSS feeds from these blogs to get started. You’ll soon find blogs specific to your subject area to have feeds from. Check my blogroll to the right for some good blogs. 8.** Find free web apps **– So many excellent tools and [|apps] are available for free online. [|Richard Byrne]and [|Larry Ferlazzo]are two of the best bloggers for staying informed about these apps. Organise RSS feeds from these blogs. 9.** DET portal & TALE **– This [|link](if you are logged on to the portal) will take you to the L4L (Laptops for Learning) page with all the bulletins, links and info available to DET teachers. There is a [|FAQ]. You must read this. The [|TALE site] should be one that all staff are familiar with and increasingly need. 10.** Reflect **- How can students learn best in my classroom? How can we create life-long learners? Am I a life-long learner? Why am I a teacher? How can I help students to be independent? How can my classroom evolve with new tools and pedagogical ideas? How can I keep up to date happily? What risks do I need to take? What do I most need to be careful about? Who can help me? Who can I help?
 * Here’s __10 things__ a teacher can do __prior__ to the arrival of the students’ laptops** (apologies that some of the videos are hosted at YouTube and consequently filtered by DET):

Fact Sheet for Year 9 Students and Parents



Bulletin No 5 **

All the latest On Phase 1. L1 Our Digital Education Revolution **
Phase 1: During Term 2, Week 10, on Thursday 2nd July 2009 a few teachers / head teachers were issued the first round of laptops and began the 'commissioning' process in the boardroom. The commissioning with the first group was held during period 3 (kelly, godby, braid, andre) and all went quiet well - only a few gliches and overall, it was a smooth process. Thanks to Denise who has taken the time to fix the problems during the commissioning phase (Social Science Dept).

Information about the Wireless Installation. FROM IBM

<span style="font-family: monospace,'Sans Serif',Arial; line-height: normal;">IBM will commence Phase 1 - deployment of the "L4L Wireless Connectivity Project" late May 2009. This project, in accordance with DET requirements, will be deployed as follows;

Completed in two phases as follows:

Phase 1b

- IBM will install the required Campus infrastructure and equipment to the "Campus Distributor" and "Building Distributor" rooms. Wireless access points will be installed in the Library and each of the nominated Phase 1 Teaching Space rooms to a maximum of 18 in no more than 3 buildings. Demountables are excluded from this phase.

Phase 2b

Distributor" rooms' and installation of wireless access points to the remaining nominated Teaching Space rooms. Teaching Space rooms have been predefined by the department. The teaching space rooms nominated by the department are listed in the attached Site Survey. If you find that you have more, or different teaching space rooms, please advise us and we will bring it to the attention of the department.
 * - The installation of infrastructure to the remaining "Building

Your school is scheduled to commence implementation on 07/09/2009 and will be finalised by 11/09/2009. Installation tasks will occur between 8am to 4pm during this period.

IBM will deliver the relevant hardware approximately two (2) business days before the installation date. The delivery will consist of a number of boxes that will need to be securely stored at your school. We will provide specific delivery details, including date, box quantity and size closer to the installation period.

Please contact IBM immediately on 02 9928 0220 if any of these dates or times do not suit your school.

To enable IBM to plan the overall deployment a Site Survey has been scheduled for the

29/06/2009. You are requested to review and complete the attached Site Survey documentation Part A in preparation for the Site Survey in particular the rooms that you may wish to nominate for the Phase 1 implementation. This survey has been populated with available information however we require confirmation, correction or completion where required. The actual Site Survey is in two parts as follows: Part A

- Administrative / Nominated Teaching Space Survey / Confirmation - This part is expected to be completed by the Principal or nominated representative and includes information in relation to Contacts, selection of initial Phase 1b Teaching Spaces - Schedules, access and required re-rooming. Part B

- Technical / Infrastructure Survey/Confirmation - This part will be completed by an IBM representative at the agreed time for Site Survey visit and will be completed with input from the school Technical Network Support representative and includes information in relation to required space for new cabinets, existing spare fibre between buildings and Campus Distributor room and Core Switch spare fibre capacity. It is recommended that Part B - Technical / Infrastructure Survey be completed prior to the completion of Part A as this will identify those Building Distributor rooms that are suitable for deployment during Phase 1b and subsequently rooms located near these Building Distributor rooms which can be nominated for Phase 1b. You are requested to complete the attached Part A and return to IBM within 24hrs of the Schedule Site Survey to allow confirmation of your Implementation Schedule dates.

Please send your completed survey’s to:

Fax – 02 9475 1269

Scan/Email - DETL4L@au1.ibm.com

On receipt of your completed survey documentation, IBM will contact your nominated representative by phone to clarify any requirements, and address any project related issues that may have been identified.

Should you require any assistance or clarification please contact the IBM Project Management Office on 02 9928 0220. If this Department is unable to assist you with your query, they will record all relevant details and organise for the appropriate IBM employee to contact you.

If you require further information regarding this matter, please refer to The Department of Education and Training Intranet webpage

[|https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/deptresources/majorprojects/laptops4learn/wireless/index.htm] Kind regards,

L4L Wireless Connectivity Project Management Office