10th July 2009
Purpose: Important
connectivity information
Audience:
This work has been classified as low
risk and should not affect school staff wanting to access systems
remotely.
Contingency plans are in place
should there be any connectivity problems on Wednesday 15th July such
that any changes can be readily rolled back to ensure full network connectivity
for the next working day.
Should you have any queries
regarding this outage please contact the ICT Service Helpline 08450 450
973.
Strategic
Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools
Purpose: Reminder
Audience: Headteachers and / or Senior
Leaders in Secondary Schools with
responsibility for ICT
Venue &
Date:
We aim to host regular events to help keep schools
informed on strategic ICT developments. We would like to invite the Headteacher and/or the
member of your Senior Management Team with
responsibility for ICT to this event. The agenda will cover a range of
important strategic issues and is as follows:
- BSF: the
way forward and ICT issues - Alan Kippax, BSF Programme
Director
- BSF from a
non-BSF school perspective - Steve Howard, Deputy Principal,
- What does
E2BN do? - Representative from E2BN
- Video
Conferencing - Tim Daines, Secondary ICT
Advisor, Education ICT Service
- Accredited
Secondary ICT Subject Leader Course - Tim Daines, Secondary ICT
Advisor, Education ICT Service
- National
Digital Resource Bank - Gareth Davies, E-learning Manager, Education ICT
Service
During the meeting there will also
be the opportunity to discuss any issues you might have.
We
hope you will be able to meet with us to discuss these important topics. Please
book your place by contacting ICT Courses:
Email: ict.courses@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Tel:
01480 376670
For those who are
unable to attend the
actual meeting we will arrange for any papers/presentations to
be made available after the event. Please view via the
Education Portal via this link or by searching using Search ID
4717:
Portal
link to 'Strategic Implementation of ICT Events'
Potential Video
Streaming Service
Purpose: Register
interest
Audience: ICT staff
in schools
We have had requests
from schools about the availability of a central video streaming service that
could provide one or more of the following
facilities
(1) Video Streaming
of live
video streams (e.g. watching a bird's
nest in real time);
(2) Video Streaming of uploaded video files;
(3) Uploading student created video (e.g. an
animation) for subsequent playback, download, embedding in a web
page.
We have been discussing the
provision of such a service with other authorities in the East of England
through E2BN, our Regional Broadband Consortium. Before going further we would
like the views of schools on the possibility of such a service and the features
it should contain.
We would encourage you to comment by
completing the online form that can be found at http://www.e2bn.org/videoform.html
Depending on responses received
further discussions about the viability of such a service will take place in
September.
Cambridgeshire Online
Training Search
Cambridgeshire Online
Training Search
(COTS) is a database of training opportunities provided by the Local
Authority. It can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet
without the need for a password; its powerful search engine will help you to
find suitable courses. Eventually, all providers will be using this
database, please check the Providers list for the services currently
represented. You will already find the complete listing of courses offered
by
ICT Service Blog and
Helpline Blog
The information in this briefing is
also available through our blog. This means that you do not have to wait for the
fortnightly distribution; news items go online immediately. Other relevant
information about ICT is posted there too. It is also possible to use the blog to
comment on items and to give us feedback.
There is a link to the blog from
our website or you can visit it
directly at http://educationictservice.blogspot.com/ If
you use a newsreader such as Google Reader, you can subscribe to the blog using
the link in the left-hand column; your news reader will automatically highlight
new blog items for you. If you would like to learn how to do this, contact the
Helpline.
For up to the minute Helpline
information, please visit the ICT Service Helplines Blog by searching for
Resource id: 3750 from the Education Portal or by using this link: ICT Service
Helplines Blog. You can subscribe to this blog in
exactly the same way.
More ICT News on the
Portal...
Do you regularly check
the ICT News page on the Portal? It features all the latest ICT-related news of
importance to Cambridgeshire's schools.
To take a look, simply
search for resource ID: 584 from the Portal front page,
or click on 'News' on the ICT Service home page (www.ict.ccceducation.net).
