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6.6 Reading/activities for the completion of your Development Plan

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6.6 Reading/activities for the completion of your Development Plan

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6.5 REQUIRED assessment - Peer to Peer Activity - ICT Development Plan

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6.5 REQUIRED assessment - Peer to Peer Activity - ICT Development Plan

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6.4 Supporting students with Special Educational Needs

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There are some students with special needs in our school, but no one has disabilities like seen in SEN videos. I'm not sure if social and special pedagogues are using any special technology. I know that one special pedagogue is helping students to learn with dog this year. These children are special and we need to give them a chance to express themselves through different things. We will need to consider to use proposed ICT technology, if student with that kind of disabilitiy will be integrated in our school. ICT is definitely one powerful tool that can change teaching and learning quality.

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Making information accessible to all students is nowdays very important. Our students get information from teachers, who are basically using powerpoint presentations, videos and some other tools. I did not know Amara exists. I googled in web and it's not even hard to use. So thanks for this great tip Nuno. Those students, who are absent in class, can get information on school webpage and virtual subject classrooms.

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Very useful list of new tools. I already use some of them like Sketchup, Moodle, Kahoot, Quizizz, Prezi, Powtoon, Scrapnook, Smilebox, Audacity, Pro Profs... Padlet is interesting and I'm using it since this course. I find Makey Makey fascinating.

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New technologies are useful for everybody, teachers and students. Choosing the right technology is very important in learning process. For now we are exploring cloud computing in TouchDevelop and computing with Lego Mindstorm. 3-D printing is used in some schools, but not yet in ours. Virtual reality and virtual personal education assistant are two things which I'm definitly going to explore in the future.

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I have formal qualification for ICT organizer, but it's not enough. The technology is extremly developing, so are problems and troubles. I 'm improving my skills through discussions with other ICT colleagues, meetings, face-to-face courses, MOOCs, YouTube tutorials, surfing on the internet trying to find the best solution, etc.
There are still a lot of skills to get.

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5.4 Ways to reduce ICT costs in your school

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5.4 Ways to reduce ICT costs in your school

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Our school already made some savings with reducing small printers in every office and replacing them with rented network printers. Teachers now have three rented network printers. The rent includes toner and some quote of free copies  per month. We do print on both sides and extend margins. Suggestion about choosing the right font to save ink was new to me, so thanks, I will transfer this information to other colleagues.
Teachers use Drive to store their documents and some teachers use Moodle interactive classrooms. Last year we also bought some refurbished computers. They work as good as the new ones.

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5.3 The challenges of an ICT administrator (working with limited resources)

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5.3 The challenges of an ICT administrator (working with limited resources)

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All three of you are great and are doing everything in your power to  achieve and successfully integrate technology into curriculum.
Keep up the work you're doing.

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It would be great to have full-time job just for ICT like in Iceland. A combination of teaching and ICT administrator can be quite tough job.  My teaching schedule is very dispersed, so it has happened to me, that we had a problem with wifi connection in our school, the  external partner, that provides maintenance and support for our infrastructure was eliminating the problem and I forgot to go to the class.

For the second video, I was surprised that they replace computers every three years. We did replace some laptops and computers in the past two years, but we still use computers from year 2006.

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Jenny very well described the situation of profile ICT administrator in Slovenia. I must say, everything she wrote is absolutely true. Last year i was 55% in class teaching and 45% ICT organizer. This year I'm 30% computer and technic teacher and rest i'm ICT organizer.  The computer, other accessories, work for ICT worker are increasing, while the percent of ICT worker is decreasing because of the number of classes.

Qualification is needed to be an ICT organizer in Slovenia. I'm now ICT organizer for four years and I needed to complete degree course in computer science and informatics. Although I completed this course, I still learn by myself, attend free courses live or online whenever I can.

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4.5 The eSafety Label/Safer Internet Day

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4.5 The eSafety Label/Safer Internet Day

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We do know about Safer Internet Day, on second week in February. Safer Internet Centre Slovenia (www.safe.si) is the national project promoting and ensuring a better internet for kids. They are organizing activities for students and lecture for parents and teachers. eSafety Labels are new to us.

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4.4 Using mobile phones in schools and Acceptable Use Policies

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4.4 Using mobile phones in schools and Acceptable Use Policies

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Students are not allowed to use their smartphones in our school. The school owns 13 tablets, that can be used by students.

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The main keys to protect ICT infrastructure from attacks are password protected network divided into several V-lans, (such as: computer lab, administrative, pedagogical and guests), turned on firewall and good antivirus program on every computer. The antivirus must be up to date. It's also good to have admin protection on every computer. The users can´t download software to the school's computers, unless the administrator password is entered.

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About three month ago we dealed with trojan horse on secretary's computer. She didn't even know, that it was there. The computer was getting slowly, not responding and so on. Connecting new printer to her computer was mission impossible. I became suspicious, so I checked firewall. It was turned off. I also scanned all computer with antivirus program. There it was, trojan horse. We scanned all the other computers in the network and luckily it didn't spread around. I backup secretary's documents, formated all partitions and reinstalled OS and other programs.

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4.1 Webinar: Flipped Learning Session with Jean-Noel

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4.1 Webinar: Flipped Learning Session with Jean-Noel

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3.5 Peer to Peer (P2P) Activity - Your development plan

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3.5 Peer to Peer (P2P) Activity - Your development plan

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3.4 How cloud computing can benefit education?

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3.4 How cloud computing can benefit education?

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To use or not to use cloud services is a decision of each teacher him/herself. As i said, some of our teachers use Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud or OneDrive (via Office365) for their personal document  storage, but for teachers group work we use Google Drive. This decision was made from our principal.

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There were no special challenges, when we integrated Google Drive in our school infrastructure. For now we only use Drive among teachers. We have shared documents like:

- Suggests and updates for ICT equipment, in which every teacher can suggest what he needs for better teaching.

- Reservation of computer lab, so that every teacher can see, when computer lab is free or occupied.

- Reservation for tablets, which students can use in classrooms,

- Students grading monthly plan

- Short project descriptions for current school year

-  Attendance at lectures plan

- Teachers education plan

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I already know some things about cloud computing.

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We mostly use Google Drive for shared documents between teachers and Moodle for the students. Cloud is an ideal opportunity to create or share documents with coworkers and you can open thes documents any time on any computer or device. Some of our teachers also use Dropbox or OneDrive for their personal document storage.

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2.6 Module 2 Additional viewing and reading

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2.6 Module 2 Additional viewing and reading

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2.4 Activity: Share your experiences with wifi set up and BYOD

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2.4 Activity: Share your experiences with wifi set up and BYOD

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We do have wifi network in school. Our school has 3 floors and ground plan which is in shape of letter L. For now, we have four AP. Two AP's are Lancom L54-g and the other two are Linksys EA 6300 - AC 1200. One AP Lancom is placed in ground floor (lobby). This AP is covering only 6 classrooms. 2 classrooms, gym and dining room don't have wifi signal. Another Lancom AP is placed in 1st floor in computer lab, and it's covering 12 classrooms. Other 6 classrooms and 2 offices in 1st floor have very weak signal, so this places must be LAN connected. The administration offices are also LAN connected. 3rd floor has 2 Linksys AP's, one north and one on a south side.

Some teachers use wifi connection instead of LAN connection for their laptops or when they rent tablets for student. For now we have 12 tablets, so 2 student work on 1 tablet. WiFi is protected with password and is only avaliable for teachers and other employee and not for students.

We know these 4 AP's are not enough to cover all the school area. We were thinking to expand our WiFi connectivity and enable students access via Eduroam but our internet provider told us to wait, because the Ministry of education will invest in wifi connectivity in Slovenian schools in a few months.
Like most of Slovenian schools and also ours, has school rules in which mobile phones and other devices are not allowed in school area. So we don't run BYOD project in our school. Despite that use of mobile phones and tablets in learning process bring many advantages, we also must be aware of many difficulties (students have different phones, with different system, we can encounter on phone exchange, stealing, abuse, disturbing learning process by phone ringing, the student must bring connection cables and charger adapters, economical differences among students…).

To avoid many of these difficulties, it would be meaningful that school, in cooperation with parents and students, prepares special rules for BYOD to school and using them in learning process.

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2.3 Webinar Network aspects of School infrastructure

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2.3 Webinar Network aspects of School infrastructure

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Sorry, i've missed this webinar :(. Is it possible to view recording of this webinar?

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Like most of Slovenian schools and also ours, has school rules in which mobile phones and other devices are not allowed in school area. So we don't run BYOD project in our school. Despite, that use of mobile phones and tablets in learning process may bring many advantages. We also must be aware of many difficulties (students have different phones, with different system, we can encounter phone exchange, stealing, abuse, disturbing learning process by phone ringing, the student must bring connection cables and charger adapters, economical differences among students…) just like Guillermo and Sergio pointed out.

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We do have wifi network in our school, but not like in Hermann's school. We only have 4 AP's wich doesn't cover entire school or signal is too weak. In that case the classrooms must be LAN connected.

Ensuring fast WiFi is to use latest technologies and WiFi standards. Also SW of AP's and devices should be up to date. Setting up QoS which enables you to “shape” the traffic that passes through your network, and prioritize certain applications. Use of different channels with as little interference as possible. Usage of antivirus and antimalware SW.

Our two AP's are Lancom L54-g and the other two are Linksys EA 6300 - AC 1200. We know that these 4 AP's are not enough to cover all the school area, so we will expand our wifi covoerage with more AP's. If we want to enable students access via Eduroam, we will need to buy AP's that are stronger and fully equipted by Radius service.

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Module 5: THE EFFECTIVE ICT ADMINISTRATOR

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Module 5: THE EFFECTIVE ICT ADMINISTRATOR

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1.7	Activity 2: Upgrading the school infrastructure

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1.7	Activity 2: Upgrading the school infrastructure

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There were a lot of activities and upgrades of ICT infrastructure in past few years. We bought a lot of new  computers, projectors, interactive whiteboards, tablets and switches. We renewed computer lab and also speed up our LAN connectivity from 40/10 Mbps to optic fibre 1Gbps connectivity speed. In near future, we will change switches to support more data throughput nad buy more AP to improve our wifi connectivity. Now we have only four AP's, and these four are not enough to cover all the school area.

I think that we practicaly could not expand school network anymore. Every teacher has laptop and projector.

We had ASA with firewall, which managed external operator. Now, our router and filtering the traffic on net is manageed by the internet provider Arnes (Academic and Research Network of Slovenia).

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Module 2: WIRELESS NETWORKING AND BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE 

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Module 2: WIRELESS NETWORKING AND BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE 

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1.6	Webinar: Networking principles, recommendations and guidelines

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I didn't have a chance to participate the webinar live, but i havr listened and watched the recording afterwards. There were topics that I already know and some were new to me. Very useful webinar.

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1.5	Activity 1: the educational purpose of the ICT infrastructure

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1.5	Activity 1: the educational purpose of the ICT infrastructure

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In past four years we bougth quite a lot of new laptops and projectors, some interactive whiteboards and tablets. So, every teacher have laptop and projector, some of them also whiteboard, in his/her's classroom.  Our vision for ICT in future is to update older computers and projectors and improve wifi connectivity. We have shared document, Suggests and updates for ICT equipment, in which every teacher can suggest what he needs for better teaching. Each and every teacher has the same possibility. If they will use it, it's up to them.  I must say, that majority of our teacher use ICT every day, subject teachers (math, physics, biology, chemistry, native and foreign languages, technik and technology, history, geography…). Teachers, who teach 6-10 years old children use ICT less and sports teacher only use tablets for measurement physical education card.

The students have access to computer lab, which was renewed during summer holidays. There were 16 computers for approximately 25-28 students in class. Now we have 26 computers, two are still missing, so every student can work on is own computer.
We use shared document, Reservation of computer lab, so that every teacher can see, when computer lab is free or occupied. We also use similar shared document, Reservation for tablets, which students can use in classrooms. Students do not use their own devices. Our network capacity is sufficient for now.

Here is how our renewed computer lab looks like.

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Interesting Panagiota's overview. I also agree with many other comments: Good infrastructure and equipment + teacher commitment = teaching added value, i also like this one: ICT > hardware + software. The big role in all this has ICT administrator, who is beside ordinary teacher, also ICT coordinator, leader, researcher for new ICT resources and support for teacher colleagues.

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1.3	School case study 3: An elaborate setup

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We have two external partners, Perftech and Kron Telekom, that provides maintenance and support for our infrastructure and ip telephony. For example, if something is not working properly, we are contacting their heldesk and technician comes to our school to check and solve the problem. The good thing about this is imidiate help and the bad one are high costs.

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1.2	School case study 2: A more extensive setup

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1.2	School case study 2: A more extensive setup

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One week ago, we were connected via cooper cable with 40/10 Mbps connection to the internet.  We were part of govermental project called IR optic with 1 Gbps.  Because we have 2 switches with 100 Mbps speed connection, we bought one 1 Gbs switch, so the teachers now have 1 Gbps speed connection. Our router and traffic filtering is now managed by the internet provider Arnes (Academic and Research Network of Slovenia). Our LAN network is divided into four V-lans, computer lab, administrative, pedagogical and guests.

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For the past three years i'm also responsible for IT infrastructure in school. We have one computer classroom with 27 PC's and all the others of 28 classrooms, have laptop and projector. Seven classrooms also have interactive whiteboard.  The PC's in computer lab are LAN connected, laptops in other classrooms are LAN or WIFI connected.  All cables are labeled and connected to patch panel and switches, which are mounted in locked computer cabinet in computer lab.

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Module 1: OPTIMISING YOUR SCHOOL NETWORK

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Module 1: OPTIMISING YOUR SCHOOL NETWORK

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Hi everybody! I'm Petra, math and tehnology teacher at Primary school in Bled, Slovenia. For the past three years i'm also responsible for IT infrastructure in school.