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My name is Vlasta Vlahović. I live and work in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.
I am teacher of mathematics and computer science in my school.
I'm 42 years old, married and have two daughters and a dog.
I usually manage network in our school but I think that my knowlege of network in general is not that good so i want to learn more about this topic.

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Administering School ICT infrastructure: developing your knowledge and skills (2nd edition)

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Administering School ICT infrastructure: developing your knowledge and skills (2nd edition)

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The course aims to build our knowledge, skills and confidence in six key topic areas: Optimising the school network, Wireless networking and Bring Your Own Device, Cloud models and services, Securing networks and digital safety, New tools and services (including technology for special needs), and Professional skills and tips, including producing a school ICT development plan
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Modul started with Eleni Zalavra from Greece, who gave an overview of her school infrastructure and then focus on the networking part; her advice is "Start simple!"

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I'm math and computer science teacher in primary school in Zagreb.

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I am teacher of math and computer science. In my classroom I am in charge of 22 desktop computers and LAN. I want to learn more about admistering

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I learned about larger setup of network, including interactive whiteboards, server rooms, devices in classrooms, etc.
Typical LAN topologies

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My school, like most in Croatia, is connected to Interenet hosted by CARNet. Speed is very slow now but the CARNet promise us a new connection via optical cables soon and 100Mb/s.
There are two different networks, one academic and one just for management. We also have wi-fi for whole school and all classrooms. We have problems with connectivity on weekly basis.

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Some administration work is done by me and school janitor. Our wi-fi network is constructed by external IT firm and they occasionally come and fix problems. Carnet helps us with school LAN.

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Finally, Panagiota Argyri talks about the role of the school IT administrator: the challenges, the roles, and the interaction with the other stakeholders

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ICT Administrators | M1 |Video 4 Panagiota

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There is no national strategy for my school, but some of the schools are in national project called e-schools where they have ICT stategy developed. We depend on support of local and regional authorities and managemet of schools.

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Marc Khayat
Download of Marc's presentation

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Two free Cisco Networking Academy self-paced courses mentioned by Marc:

Introduction to Cybersecurity:

Introduction to the Internet of Things:

You can take the courses any time in 2018 and on completing them, you will receive a Certificate of Course Completion from Cisco NetAcad.

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I have learned how other colleagues deployed a wifi network in their own school, how to improve and deepen knowledge and understanding of wireless networking principles (network design, sizing, and coverage security), learned about general principles behind BYOD, the challenges, and the technical solutions, heard from other colleagues how they introduced the BYOD approach, the difficulties they faced, and the solutions they came up with.

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My school hired a company to install WiFi. And they took care of it for about a year. Now me and school janitor are responsible for proper work and use of wifi. Wifi is used only by teachers, not by pupils. We use it for desktop computers in every classroom that we need in teaching process.  We have small range access points in hallways. Network is devided in several parts and each have its own password. Password are changing in regular basis.

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Hermann Morgenbesser presents the wifi setup he has designed and put in place in his school.
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Students are not allowed to use their own device at school during teaching. Except in my classroom where I teach ICT, sometimes I ask them to bring it if I have previously organised an activity like kahoot.

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Semyon Ovsyannikov
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Network aspects of school infrastructure

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I have Improved and deepen my knowledge and understanding of Cloud principles, opportunities and pitfalls, models, and platforms, heard from colleagues why and how they decided to move to the Cloud.

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Basic principles behind Cloud Computing
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I use Dropbox, Google Drive and Office 365.

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Video fromTeresita, who talks about the benefits she finds in adopting Cloud services in her school and presents a palette of available services of interest.
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Cloud services are rarely used in my school because many students don't have computer with internet connection at home for schoolwork. Some of the collegues use Office 365.

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How Nuha has been using a wifi network as a support for a BYOD project.
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There is no offical agreement for using cloud services. Teachers decide will they use it and for what purpose. School administration use cloud for saving important legal documents and important data. School principal decides and makes final decision.

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I Learned more about the technical aspects of security, discovered how to promote safe behaviours, shared and solved problems related to security and safety in my school.

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Jean-Noël Colin
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Security - prevention, detection and recovery

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We installed basic free antivirus software on students computers and students do not have permission to install programs. On administration computers we have installed payed commecial antivirus programGeneral protection is provided by the CARNet network through which we connect to the Internet.

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Tito Lívio Filipe gives an overview of what he has done in his school, shows how the school network is secured, and talks about involving parents and managing incidents.
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video - Sabrina talks about school mobile phone policies. In addition here is a useful checklist for schools: Using mobile phones in schools.
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We have established Information Technology Security Policy in which students can use cell phones in class only if teachers give them permission.

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I did not know about the eSafety Label. In my school every year we participate in Safer Internet Day.

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In the following video, Enid Bonello describes how her school obtained an eSafety Label.

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In this video, Enid Bonello describes how her school obtained an eSafety Label. She also explains how students try to by-pass the school's SquidGuard [http://www.squidguard.org], filtering software and how the network is divided up. This video is part of the Administering School ICT infrastructure: developing your knowledge and skills course of the European Schoolnet Academy.

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This module includes interviews with ICT administrators about their school, role and daily tasks, saving money, ICT development planning, and own personal development.

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I teach mathematics and computer science 90% of my time and 10% is administration. I ususally install software on computers, manage school’s website , help teachers with their use of ICT and deal with technical issues. It' s all on voluntary basis. I spend a lot of my free time on jobs other then teaching. Every school shoud have ICT administrator or I shoud get payed for doing that job too.

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I am impressed.

My school does not have enough resources to get all the necessary equipment.

We sure need to employ somebody for IT support because teachers cant manage so many work and also they are not educated for administering.

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School's principal can make a big difference. If principal is a good manager, he can get donations . Half of our equipment is donated. But the problem is that donated stuff is already used for 5-6 years and we get outdated equipment.

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Learn more about saving money in this article: Technology in schools: saving money with cloud, open source and consortia (Nick Morrison, The Guardian, 21st February 2013).

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Teachers need to improve  skills in order to be ready for new challenges and new software and technologies. I regularly take courses here at EUN academy, Cisco academy, Oracle academy and courses from our Agency of education and CARNet.

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If something gets wrong colleagues allways call me first and expect me to fix everything and know about everything.Teachers who work with computers should know how to fix minor problems. School could have clubs with students who want to be digital leaders nad help with maintance.

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I discovered trends in educational technology and key emerging technologies, shared and explored new tools and services appearing in leading-edge classrooms, e.g. Virtual Reality, robotics, MakerSpaces, coding, wearables, and implications for ICT administration, found out about apps that enable students with special needs and disabilities to access learning

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BYOD, virtual reality and robotics, online learning.

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Kahoot, Purpose games, Match the memory, Linoit, Plickers, Powtoon, Geogebra, Moodle, Office365, Google Drive, Vimeo, Animoto, Prezzi,...

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Students with special needs are integrated in regular classes and usually have personal assistant that helps them do the tasks during class. Every teacher has to make special program of teaching content and teaching methods for every special needs student.