VIVA hot spots
Episode 123 - 25 March 2024 - PAUL & BRETT
What's New with Stu?
The Week 9 issue of news.T4L was released today! Let's take a deeper dive.
Share the link to the latest issue of T4L Kids with your staff! It's aimed at stages 3&4.
Laurens' Tip of the Day
High schools - Should you consider Unreal Engine for your Stage 5 & 6 tech courses?
Learn How to Code - Create your first 3D game
Unreal Futures: Careers in Animation
Unreal Futures: Careers in Fashion
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Paul Jeffers - Stages 2&3 teacher at Moorland Public School
Paul coordinated 3MAPS - or the Three Mountains Alliance Public Schools - four schools, one destination: Quality Education initiative. Let's find out all about it and what else is happening with tech at his schools!
Brett Kent - RFF STEM teacher and School ICT Coordinator at Hilltop Road Public School
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Episode 122 - 18 March 2024 - GRANT/PAUL - ERINA HS
What's New with Stu?
The brand new issue of T4L Kids just dropped! - Share the link with students and staff at your school!
Anyone having problems with AirServer and connecting Chromebooks and iPads in particular? A couple of Viva Engage threads have popped up in the past few days without resolution:
The School Visitor Check-In iPad app and Service NSW app had an update released last Monday afternoon. Some schools have reported that their app did not update, so further instructions were posted. If there is still no joy, it's been reported that "Erase This iPad" is the last resort, which allows Jamf Pro to redo everything.
Laurens' Tip of the Day
Have you tried Google Earth Studio? Laurens checks it out to see how it could be used in the classroom.
Today's Viva Hot Spot
Grant Ward and Paul Green - Erina High School
Grant is the school's Head Teacher Administration and Paul is the Teacher Librarian. Together, they'll discuss technologies at the school and the strategies and specialist programs they have currently running.
Erina High School's BYOD program
What is the Year 7 NEXUS Program at Erina High?
The Fire-Ed Up teaching program for bushfire education
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Episode 121 - 11 March 2024 - KEIRA & CHRISTY
What's New with Stu?
2023/24 T4L Rollout -
Instructions have been added to the T4L Rollout webpage to advise schools of the correct process to confirm your school's device deliveries
Late on Friday, the security certificates for Internet@Edge's detnsw.net authentication portal were updated. Please be aware of the fix for unmanaged devices.
Update on the Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base) notebooks F12-build issue:
Builds appear to be completing successfully now with the alternate Acer TravelMate option provided
The fix will be merged into the standard Win 11 and Win 10 offerings in time
The School Visitor Check-In iPad app and Service NSW app have had an update released as of 3pm today
Laurens' Tip of the Day
CoSpaces Edu enables students to learn by doing, with many options for use in class:
Creation toolbox / Coding features / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Class management
What can you do with CoSpaces Edu? Demonstration 1 / Demonstration 2.
We've got a limited number of licences available for schools that will commit to using them. Find out more and understand the terms of use on our CoSpaces Edu page!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Keira Fotakopoulos - Claremont Meadows Public School
Keira is very busy as the school's English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) AND Anti-Racism Contact Officer (ARCO). And on top of that, she's the schools ICT Coordinator. Let's get a tech update from her about this amazing school in Sydney's west.Christy Hutt - from Exeter Public School in the Southern Highlands is both a Stage 3 teacher and the school's Assistant Principal Curriculum & Instruction (APCI). Being a small rural school doesn't mean they aren't kicking big tech goals!
Check out Exeter Public School's podcast called The Bell
Ever considered the STEM Virtual Academy?
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Episode 120 - 4 MARCH 2024 - JESS MCCARTHY
What's New with Stu?
The Week 6 issue of news.T4L was released today! Let's take a deeper dive.
Update on the failure to compete the build on some Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base) notebooks.
Laurens' Tip of the Day
A closer look at the RØDECaster Pro II mixing desk which is part of the new stem.T4L Podcasting Kit
Today's Viva Hot Spot
Jessica McCarthy - Head Teacher, Teaching & Learning at Mosman High School
Having very recently seen the opening of brand-new school facilities, let's find out all about tech at this amazing school!
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Episode 119 - 26 FEBRUARY 2024 - SHARON & MAxine/Aaron
What's New with Stu?
Chromebooks for NAPLAN testing - NESA has advised that the Android app will no longer be used on Chromebooks and that the NAP LDB kiosk app from 2023 will be reinstated. ITD has pushed this out to all DoE enrolled CBs, so please ensure you start them up to allow the kiosk app to deploy well before testing commences. Updated Chromebook advice is here.
97% of T4L Rollout devices have been delivered! Every school was emailed on Tuesday 20 February with the subject line: 2023-24 T4L Computer Equipment Rollout order status. This email contains important information about confirming your school's rollout order delivery. To date, only 25% of delivered devices have been confirmed by schools.
There is still no formal resolution to the reports of failure to compete the build on Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base). While not affecting every device, a significant proportion seem to be affected, both with Windows 11 and 10 builds. Acer's technical team are now involved.
If you are facing similar issues with that model, specific advice from EDConnect was posted in that thread.
Laurens' Tip of the Day
Has your school tried WeVideo? While Apple Macs and iPads have always had access to iMovie, Windows PC and Chromebooks are not supplied with an effective video editing app. WeVideo is a powerful cloud-based video editing app, and the stem.T4L team have made licences for WeVideo a kit that schools can borrow until the end of 2024!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Maxine Johns and Aaron Campbell - Hilltop Road Public School
H.Pop Studio has been running at Hilltop Road for a few years now, producing podcasts or all kinds of genres, using students from K-6. Maxine and Aaron have been the driving force behind H.Pop Studio, so let's find out all about it!Sharon Raj - Specialist RFF STEM Teacher at Dee Why Public School
Dee Why's Tech Hub hosts all kinds of STEM lessons from K through 6 with big projects planned for the second half of each year. So many great initiatives that we look forward to finding out about!
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Episode 118 - 19 FEBRUARY 2024 - ANN/JESSICA - NAPLAN SPECIAL
What's New with Stu?
T4L Rollout deliveries are still happening as vendors get supplies for each model that was ordered. For an approximate delivery date of all device models, refer to the delivery timeframe spreadsheet
In schools where shipments have landed, some are reporting of failure to compete the build on Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base). If you are facing similar issues with that model, specific advice from EDConnect was posted in that thread.
On Friday a very strange issue was reported with enrolling Chromebooks (any brand) into the Department's Google domain. After investigation, we discovered that it began on Thursday, but seems to be working today. Concerns were raised with Google and they confirmed an issue at their end. We are still awaiting more details from Google.
Laurens' Tip of the Day
Laurens tested out a new type of headset after advice from his doctor. How does the type of computer technology we use impact our health?
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Ann Martin and Jessica Allison - While online NAPLAN testing has been happening for a few years now, school staff move around, different people become responsible for running it locally, and operational changes come through each year. So it's important that all schools focus on this important time for all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Ann is the Manager of NAPLAN in the Student Assessment and Online Reporting team and her NAPLAN work goes way beyond the two-week testing window. Jessica, from ITD, works closely with Ann's team to ensure the tech side for all device types is ready to roll. We chat to them both to get every school as ready as possible for when testing commences in Week 7!
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Episode 117 - 12 FEBRUARY 2024 - LAUREN/DAN & YVETTE
What's New with Stu?
The first issue of news.T4L for 2024 was released today! Let's take a deeper dive.
The annoying issue with the new Teams client makes finding students to add to a team difficult has been resolved!
The spell check function that suddenly disappeared in the new Teams desktop client is also resolved!
Laurens' Tip of the Day
Blazepods are an impact-based technology that boosts student physical activity and give teachers data to track improvement and performance. Use Blazepods in PDHPE as a small group activity to build reflexes, create gamification, and help students see their own progress. How do they work?
The Blazepod Youtube channel covers everything!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Lauren Crockford and Dan Hart - The just announced NSWEduChat AI Pilot with 16 schools will help to ensure NSW Education delivers safe, secure and effective generative AI chat in the classroom for use by students. Loz and Dan will tell us all about it and provide a quick demo
Yvette Poshoglian from the T4L Team joins us again to fill us in on what's new in terms of T4L resources and what's coming!
We've got the Beginning Teacher Tech Guide for 2024!
And our brand new School Administrative and Support Staff tech guide!
PLUS, always visit the T4L Website for all things T4L!
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Episode 116 - 5 FEBRUARY 2024 - HUBERT & MITCHELL
What's New with Stu?
A bunch of things have happened to start the year. Here's a reminder of several Viva Engage threads worth being aware of:
Self-Serve Print Queue Management is now in BUD
If you need different people managing your school's website this year, access is now granted through MSA
An annoying issue with the new Teams client makes finding students to add to a team more difficult
AssessedIT is now live and will help schools with the task of gathering parental permissions to use online applications
Not one but THREE new special issues of magazine.T4L have landed!
We've updated our wildly popular Beginning Teacher Tech Guide for 2024!
To support our school libraries and teacher librarians, get the Teacher Librarian special edition of magazine.T4L!
Our brand new School Administrative and Support Staff tech guide is now available!
Rob's Tip of the Day
Tired of emailing spreadsheets with colleagues and fearing accidental edits? Rob McTaggart demonstrates how you can turn your data into an app with a single button press using SharePoint and Power Apps.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Hubert Lam - Rejoining us for the third time is the Head Teacher of Maths at Normanhurst Boys High School in northern Sydney. He's a prolific sharer on Viva Engage and has some great back to school tips for schools that extensively use Microsoft 365
Mitchell Gibbs - is the Assistant Principal and Aboriginal Instructional Leader at Gorokan Public School on the Central Coast. He's a Google Workspace champ with some great ideas for using Workspace in primary schools.
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Episode 115 - 11 DECEMBER 2023 - MIKAELA & TOM
What's New with Stu?
When will Windows 11 be available for all schools via F12? You said it would be today!!!
Have you shared the FREE downloadable Microsoft 365 quick reference guides available here?
NAPLAN testing will again be held in Term 1 (13-25 March) - There are some changes to one particular locked down browser.
Greig is leaving us today! 😢 - Did you miss our special episode together last week? If you did, make sure you watch the recording!
Greig's Tip of the Day
Metro Schools and Interactive Displays/MLD's
What devices best fit classrooms for teaching and learning in 2024 and on.
T4L MLD resources - Main Learning Displays - Technology 4 Learning
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Mikaela Cashin - The tiny Cabbage Tree Island Public School on the far North Coast was badly affected by floods and as the school's DCO, Mikaela focussed on growing staff confidence and competence with tech as the school was rebuilt.
Tom McLean - He comes for the opposite end of the state's coast at Bermagui Public School, where as the DCO he brought about change across the whole school with his innovative work.
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SPECIAL SHORT EP - 6 December 2023 - STU & GREIG
What's New with Stu and Greig?
We had some big news just drop in the T4L team, and while we couldn't have a live session with our regular attendees, we knew we had to put this special episode of Viva Hot Spots together.
As a key leader and member in the T4L team, Greig has made a massive impact on both the team and on schools across NSW. It's definitely worth checking this special short episode that we put together just with him.
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Episode 114 - 4 DECEMBER 2023 - NAOMI & MELISSA
What's New with Stu?
The last issue of news.T4L for 2023 was released today. Let's go through it.
A sneak preview of AssessedIT - the new tool that schools will be able to use at the start of 2024 to produce letters to parents requesting their permission for their children to use selected online learning tools in class.
Laurens' latest tech
At very short notice joining us today, Laurens shared details of the new podcasting mic that will be included in the stem.T4L Podcasting Kit due to be released soon!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Naomi Northey - She's a one day per week Digital Classroom Officer at Clunes Public School who's been making an amazing difference to this north coast school
Melissa Robinson - How does a social science teacher and DCO at James Fallon High School manage to bring about change across the whole school?
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Episode 113 - 27 NOVEMBER 2023 - SCOTT & TANYA
What's New with Stu?
Reminder that at the end of this year, our current contract with Zoom will not be renewed.
But what do you really know about Google Meet as an alternative?
Hour of Code is on next week! Lots of activities worth considering with your class!
The T4L team has many great offerings this week to get teachers going
If you're looking for more, the official Hour of Code site has you covered - Learn (hourofcode.com)
Microsoft also has a special event - Minecraft: Generation AI
Adobe has a special event on at the end of term in their Sydney Offices called Expressify Teaching and Learning
Tues December 19 - 1:30-3:30pm at Darling Harbour - let your interested staff know!
Greig's Hot Question for the day
Wireless Webcams - do they pass the pub test?
There are brand new wireless webcams on the market. Greig takes a look at some.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Scott Copland is a Teacher - Special Education and Digital Classroom Officer at Kelso Public School near Bathurst
Tanya Riach is a Digital Learning Advisor in the Digital Support Team at Information Technology Directorate
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Episode 112 - 20 NOVEMBER 2023 - THE INNVISIONEERZ & NAV/SANDY
What's New with Stu?
While Windows 11 is not going live just yet, the pilot has helped us to identify the impact of the move to Microsoft's latest operating system. Let's take a deeper look at some of the numbers.
For non-compliant devices, Windows 10 v22H2 will still be under Microsoft support until October 2025
All users (staff and students) that hadn't already switched to the new Microsoft Teams desktop client should have seen a message today saying it was ready to be turned on. While you can switch back to the old, it's recommended you get used to the new. It's here to stay.
Greig's Hot Take!
Video editing options on school Windows devices is a bit confusing these days. Windows Movie Maker is gone, the video editor in the Photos app is also gone. Microsoft want people to use Clipchamp which is available in the eT4L Software Catalogue. But Clipchamp is still a consumer product and is not well integrated in our Microsoft 365 offering. Greig takes us through where we are up to with it, and what alternatives there are for schools.
Adobe Premiere Rush is an Enterprise Software title in UDM for all staff and students
WeVideo is a fully browser based video editor that can be used on all platforms and has a limited number of licences available for classes as a kit to borrow through stem.T4L
For Apple devices (iPad and Mac), iMovie still reigns supreme
Today's Viva Hot Spots
The Innvisioneerz are the five students from The Ponds High School in Sydney's north-west, who along with their teacher, Melissa Daveson won the secondary high schools competition in the 2023 Game Changer Challenge!
Students Sanjana, Saanvii, Sarah, Thehara and Diya blew the competition away with their amazing concept for an augmented reality app that uses artificial intelligence to correct the posture of people who work at a computer!
Nav Virdi from the department's Braille and Large Print Services team, and Sandy Phillips from the stem.T4L team in ITD are getting together to tell us all about the Learning Access with Technology live event being held on November 29 after school at Rydalmere.
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Episode 111 - 13 NOVEMBER 2023 - DAVID & BENJAMIN
What's New with Stu?
Week 6 means another issue of news.T4L! Let's take a closer look at it and what it all means.
EDConnect today replaced its service desk system from Remedy with ServiceNow - for the vast majority of users of Remedy, it's a brand new system and they are still getting accustomed to it. If you are talking to an EDConnect rep, and digital field services rep, or a specialist team member about an issue you've logged, please be aware of the extra pressure they are currently under. Please advise your office staff who have questions about Finance, Admin or HR that their support teams are in the same boat with the new system.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Have you tried a To Do or Task app to help organise your day? Both Microsoft and Google have apps that link up the things you do in your other apps, Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Classroom etc and lets you keep organised.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
David Walsh is the RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Wellington Public School in the Central West
Benjamin Wells is the RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Sanctuary Point Public School on the South coast
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Episode 110 - 6 NOVEMBER 2023 - ALEX: GREENLAND SPECIAL
What's New with Stu?
The release of Windows 11 via F12 build is planned for this week, but must first pass change management on Wednesday. We'll advise via an announcement on Viva Engage if it is proceeding as planned or not. The trial schools uncovered a WiFi issue that the team is still sorting out.
The self-service trial of the new Teams client that started in early September has proven to be very successful with few calls to EDConnect and better performance. ITD will now move to deploy the new client to ALL staff and students that have not yet taken the plunge. This will occur from 20 November. Schools that use Teams with students may want to alert them of the upcoming change, which they can jump into now by flicking the switch at top-left of the old Teams.
Our managed Chromebooks should all now be receiving ChromeOS v117. A restart of each Chromebook will be needed to install the update. A more rapid monthly update process will follow for all future stable releases. Users can keep up with all the updated features of every new Chrome release from the Google team.
Greig's 3D Printers Update!
The stem.T4L printers currently are the FlashForge Adventurer 4 - These are now end of production. It's replacement is the FlashForge Adventurer 4 Pro - Almost full auto Levelling.
The FFAdv4Pro is now available on EdBuy through Bilby 3D.
Upcoming is the Adventurer 5 M and 5 M Pro - these are their 'Fast' printers
Alternatives:
Bambu Labs X1, P1, A1 mini and X1E - Bambu Lab | Unleash Your Creativity with Bambu Lab 3D Printers - Bambu Lab - also has an AMS system for multi colour prints. up to 16 colours.
Super large Printer: 500 x 500 x 500mm
Check out Ivan Miranda's Marble Clock. BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt.1. - YouTube
All the components are 3D Printed with a ComGrow 3D Printer - T500 Large 3D Printer ,Z1 Pro Laser Cutting Engraver Machine | Comgrow
Today's Viva Hot Spot
Alex Motyka is a Principal Solution Designer in the Digital Design & Delivery team in Information Technology Directorate. But today, we have him on to talk about his recent trek across the Greenland ice sheet.
Alex's Viva Engage thread
Ousland Explorers - the Norwegian adventure tour company that Alex chose.
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Episode 109 - 30 OCTOBER 2023 - LAURA & KATE
What's New with Stu?
An issue with Microsoft Edge appeared today, following an Edge update from Microsoft:
Tabs aren't loading with a strange URL appearing at the top: extension://acallcpknnnjahhhapgkajgnkfencieh/loading.html# ...
ITD are aware and working on a solution. Workarounds until the issue is resolved include:
Press F5 key if you see this when trying to open a link
Switch to using Edge in Private Mode
Switch to Chrome browser instead of Edge
Are staff at your school looking for an electronic Day Book based on OneNote? Regular Viva Hot Spots viewer, David Walsh from Wellington Public School put one together for 2024 and shared it via Viva Engage! Let your staff know!
Greig did a spot on Canva's Magic Studio last week, and then the T4L team hosted a webinar all about it and collaboration with Canva. If you missed it, the recording is now available!
Greig's Hot Tip!
Just like Canva and its new Magic Studio feature, Adobe Express is making leaps and bounds with new additions appearing all the time. If you haven't yet checked out Adobe Express, it's worth doing!
Where to access Adobe Express - https://new.express.adobe.com/
Some great quick tutorials covering some of the newest features
Lots of new Quick Tools to create images from text and animations from audio, create funky QR code posters, simple video editing and much more!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Laura Keech is the Stage 3 teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Berrigan Public School in the NSW Riverina
Kate Jones is one of Information Technology Directorate's Digital Learning Advisers
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Episode 108 - 23 OCTOBER 2023 - JARROD & Dominic
What's New with Stu?
A new term of news.T4L starts with a bunch of big news items. Let's take a look through them.
T4L Rollout deliveries delay - more information will be provided as soon as available
PL: Moving to the cloud - Google and/or Microsoft
Four modules on demand, with four more running this term
Greig's Hot Tip!
Have you tried Canva's Magic Studio?
Looking at the new AI tools in Canva - Magic Design, Magic Design for Presentations, Magic Design for Videos, Magic Write and Magic Shortcuts
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Jarrod Miles is the STEM teacher and ICT Coordinator at Blue Haven Public School
Dominic Bova is the Manager of the MyPL platform in Information Technology Directorate
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Episode 107 - 16 OCTOBER 2023 - HARSHIT & KIRI
What's New with Stu?
A glitch at Google's end is stopping Google Delegated Admins for selecting and deploying Android apps to enrolled Chromebooks. It's been happening since September 15. Google reports that they will deploy the fix for this issue over the coming weekend and expect it to be resolved for use next Monday 23 October
Enrolling or building Jamf Pro-managed MacOS devices is currently broken. Jamf don't expect to be able to fix the issue until the end of the year, so the End User Services team in ITD is releasing a workaround fix which is being tested now. We expect general release on Monday 23 October.
Earlybird info about Windows 11 - watch today's show to find out more.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Check these two Chrome browser settings!
Google recently introduced new Ad Tracking defaults to the Chrome browser. It tracks your browsing more deeply and delivers ads that are more closely aligned. Here's how to turn it off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=l5Z6HNLuYk8
In addition, if you've ever clicked the option to Allow Notifications that pops up when visiting some websites, you can clear that setting you applied to your browser by choosing the ... menu top-right, Settings...Privacy & Security...Notifications and turning off or removing undesired sites where notifications have been allowed.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Harshit Verma is the Business Manager at Sydney Distance Education Primary School
Kiri Burgess is the Digital Classroom Officer and ICT Coordinator at Sir Eric Woodward School
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Episode 106 - 18 SEPTEMBER 2023 - AMY & Mathew
What's New with Stu?
Things launched in the past week and coming up over the holidays:
Bookings are now open for stem.T4L Kits for Term 1
Latest advice for Jamf Pro-managed Apple Macs
School Holidays - ITD Maintenance window 6pm Fri 29/9 - 6pm Sun 1/10
Our current Zoom licence won't be extended after December - more details in week 3 news.T4L
Cybermarvel kicks off in Term 4!
Mona Sidhu and Sharon Dancer join us to tell us all about that's happening with Cybermarvel in 2023
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Amy Greenwood is Teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Longneck Lagoon Environmental Education Centre
Mathew Bushell - Senior Network Specialist in Information Technology Directorate. specifically dealing with in-school network infrastructure.
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Episode 105 - 11 SEPTEMBER 2023 - ANDY & AIMEE
What's New with Stu?
The Week 9 issue of news.T4L was released today. Let's take a deeper dive
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Have you had a go at using Microsoft Loop in Teams?
Eventually we expect to see Loop components in Outlook, Word and even a desktop app for Windows
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Andy Klavins is a Secondary Science Teacher at Tumbarumba High School
He manages school tech and is also the school's Digital Classroom Officer
Aimee Phillips - Principal Education Officer for the Digital Support Team in Information Technology Directorate.
The Digital Classroom Officers in 1,051 Rural Access Gap schools are directly supported by Aimee's Digital Support Team
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Episode 104 - 4 SEPTEMBER 2023 - BETSY & KEVIN
What's New with Stu?
We switched on access to the brand-new Teams client! The client was rebuilt from scratch and now it loads and runs faster and uses much less of your device's memory - give it a go (but maybe not while we are on live)!
Big change to Minecraft licencing! On Friday afternoon, licences for Minecraft Education were turned on for ALL staff and students, K through 12. All you need is the ME client installed and you can single sign-on
There's an interesting new AI graphics generator that is free to use, unrestricted in what you produce and is currently unblocked for students. https://ideogram.ai lets you create square (1:1), portrait (10:18) or landscape (18:10) images using regular text prompts and unlike many AI image sites, handles text quite well (usually)
The File3 VM on eT4L Servers in High Schools will be retained and updated to Windows Server 2019, meaning these schools still using that server can continue to use it. Check the Staff Noticeboard article.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Most people have tried or at least heard of Canva, but did you know Adobe has an online alternative that all staff and students have access to? Check out Adobe Express!
Adobe Express is at https://express.adobe.com - Single sign on using your department email credentials
Access learning resources for Adobe Express at the T4L site
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Betsy Pickering is the Learning Support Teacher at Coogee Public School
Betsy's been working on a high-quality Podcast project with year 3-6 students with some great English, HSIE and Aboriginal Education outcomes!
Check out all of the episodes so far here - https://coogeeandthecoast.podbean.com/
Kevin Elgood - Principal at Homebush Boys High School. He also leads the Technology Reference Group for the Secondary Principals Council, representing all high schools in meetings with ITD every term,
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Episode 103 - 28 August 2023 - TIM & CURTIS
What's New with Stu?
Dave Smith - Acting Director of End User Services announced today that Teams v2.1 Client will be available to all Teams users very soon!
The change when sharing files from OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint came into effect last Wednesday afternoon. When sharing files now, you must nominate WHO you are sharing with (watch the recording to see the options)
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Demonstrating Audience response from a Powerpoint presentation with the new Forms option
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Tim Grech - long time Viva Engage user, ICT Coordinator and now Head Teacher Admin Strathfield Girls High School
Tim recently posted about the new audio and lighting system installed in his school
Curtis Landesmann - TSO at Randwick PS and Georges River College - Penshurst Girls Campus
Inventor of FARSIGHT now managing over 100,000 clients!
Latest round of new features - Profiles!
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Episode 102 - 21 August 2023 - KIMBERLEY & ADAM
What's New with Stu?
Issue 100 of news.T4L came out today! What's in it?
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Christina Potts from Narooma High posted a question about QuestionWell - AI for Teachers on Yammer this morning. It's an AI site aimed at helping teachers to generate questions, quizzes etc for things like Kahoot. Greig takes a look at it.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Kimberley McPhillips at Grafton Public School - Teacher
Kimberley has been kicking some goals in the Digital Classroom Officer role at the school. Let's find out more about her.
Adam Pullinger - Digital Learning Adviser at Information Technology Directorate
Adam has been getting on top of the new Single Sign-On for Canva, so we have a chat about that, as well as him regular role supporting the use of tech in the classroom.
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Episode 101 - 14 August 2023 - CARSON & SCOTT
What's New with Stu?
T4L Rollout Ordering is complete with 100% of schools submitting their order!
The Minecraft Education Teacher Academy provides self-paced learning modules that take you from Getting Started all the way through to Minecraft collaboration!
Do you know about all these ICT based communities to join in Viva Engage? So much great sharing happening across so many different areas - https://T4L.link/vivaengage
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Are you still stuck on Google Chrome? MS Edge has some great features! Greig will demo the new Split Screen function.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Carson (CJ) Whitney - Technology Support Officer at Hawkesbury High School AND Rouse Hill High School
Carson is another of our young TSOs working out local tech support at two very different schools.
Professor Scott Sleap - STEM Curriculum Advisor at Education Standards - Scott is one of Australia's leading STEM in education influencers:
He leads the department's STEM Industry Partnerships team
He's coordinating the department's involvement in a international Computer Animation Festival
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Episode 100 🥳🎉- JOSH ROBERTS & MARK GREENTREE
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Josh Roberts - Acting Chief Information & Data Officer for the NSW Department of Education
Mark Greentree - Executive Director Digital Learning in Information Technology Directorate
Schools Digital Strategy - The department's seven-year roadmap empowering schools to determine their own digital future and support them with the skills and tools they need to succeed.
What's New with Stu & Greig?
We'll be back with regular news updates and tips from episode 101!
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Episode 99 - 31 JuLY 2023 - SAM & GRANT/WARREN
What's New with Stu?
Monday of Week 3 - that means it's time for another deep dive into the latest edition of news.T4L!
Laurens' Subject of the Week!
Let's have a chat about Photogrammetry!
Personal demo - https://poly.cam/capture/f999622a-cbf5-46ae-8496-d31395890e12
Capturing and Preserving - https://sydney.pedestal3d.com/r/KMiqryz157
SketchFab - https://sketchfab.com/feed
Megascans as gaming assets - https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/content-cat/assets/megascans?count=60&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0
ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2022 - https://artexpress.vr.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Sam Nelson - STEM Coordinator at Southern Cross School of Distance Education - Sam delivers STEM and STEAM education at the school, offering students of all ages access to a wide range of STEM gear. Recently he presented at a STEM Education Conference and his presentation is highly recommended! - Sam Nelson - STEM Education 2022 on Vimeo
Grant Weatherby - TAS Teacher and College Robotics Leader &
Warren Reynolds - STEM Project Officer and STEM Excellence Academy Leader - at Hastings Secondary College
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Episode 98 - 24 JuLY 2023 - Robert & andrew
What's New with Stu?
It's our first episode in a T4L world that no longer has Joachim Cohen in it! If you didn't see our special episode with Joe from 13 July, the link is below.
The 2034-24 T4L Computer Equipment Rollout is finally here! Details at the T4L site. Notification emails going ut to all participating schools from today. Ordering window opens next Monday morning for two weeks. Deliveries commence mid-term 3.
Variety NSW's annual grant for disadvantage high school students has re-opened. Full details posted on Viva Engage.
Laurens' Products of the Week!
What's nReal Air?
What's Spacetop?
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Robert Melisi - Technology Support Officer at Bossley Park High School - Why on earth would a former student of any high school want to immediately come back to that same high school after they finish year 12 to work there? Let's find out.
Andrew McMillan - ICT Support Team Leader in Digital Field Services, supporting the Albury/Griffith areas. - We've chatted to a few staff from our Digital Field Services teams across NSW. Let's find out more from another one!
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SPECIAL SHORT EP - 13 JuLY 2023 - STU & JOACHIM
What's New with Stu and Joachim?
We had some big news drop in the T4L team during the Winter school holidays, and while we couldn't have a live session with our regular attendees, we knew we had to put this special episode of Viva Hot Spots together.
As a key leader and member in the T4L team, Joe has made a massive impact on both the team and on schools across NSW. It's definitely worth checking this special short episode that we put together just with him.
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Episode 97 - 26 June 2023 - JOSH & KATHRYN
What's New with Stu?
The new Department logon page launched over the weekend.
Did you miss The Beginner's Guide to Google Delegated Admin?
As part of our Enterprise Agreement with Adobe, we get access to exclusive professional learning from time to time. Coming in July, Adobe has much on offer and it's all free!
Hubert Lam from Normanhurst Boys High works a lot with SharePoint and has developed multiple systems in use by the school, eg his Staff and Student Learning Tracker. He's sharing his expertise with anyone interested in learning more about SharePoint Lists:
Register to join an online Teams meeting next Tuesday, 4 July from 9:00-11:00am. It's a great opportunity to get some face to face tips on SharePoint and PowerAutomate
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Project Management Tools for you and your students
MS Planner - MS 365/Teams online app
Focalboard - Free - Focalboard: Open source alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion
Trello - Free to a point https://trello.com/
Monday - Free to a point https://monday.com/
Notion - Free to a point - https://www.notion.so/
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Josh Cauchi - TAS teacher at Leichardt Campus - Sydney Secondary College - Trained as an English teacher, but switched to TAS. We're going to find out why?
Kathryn Gibney - Technology Support Officer at Toormina High School - We've chatted with many TSOs over the years, and almost always they've been male. Kathryn's been doing this role for nine years now. Let's find out why she loves it!
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Episode 96 - 19 June 2023 - STEVE & CRAIG
What's New with Stu?
Another issue of news.T4L just landed - let's take a deeper look at what's in it
For DoE-enrolled Chromebooks, we've pushed out v113 of Chrome OS. It's a big jump from the last update we released, which was 105.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Chrome and Edge Browser extensions - Lots of rules around what you can and cannot use on managed devices, but this is your opportunity - share in the chat what your favourite extensions are and why?
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Steve Johnson - Vendor Operations Manager at ITD - he monitors the performance of our contracted user device vendors when it comes to their provision of warranty services and intervenes when issues arise
Craig Jones - R/Manager School ICT Infrastructure at ITD - Working closely with State Infrastructure NSW, he makes sure that all new school builds and all major works involving ICT infrastructure are built to department standards
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Episode 95 - 5 June 2023 - CHRIS & LISA
What's New with Stu?
The department's Online Marketplaces have grown with the inclusion of a new Student Wellbeing external programs Marketplace. This is in addition to the Online Learning Tools Marketplace and the Administration Marketplace Panel for Schools
Sadly, we won't be having Teams Avatars at this point in time. Here's why.
There's been some discussion about getting unapproved Chrome Extensions allowed and the process for doing so. Here's a reminder of how to do it.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Microsoft PowerPoint includes a cool new presentation feature called Cameo. It lets you include your webcam content live on slides while presenting, and you can then do a screen recording to capture it all to a video that can be shared. Really cool feature. And students can use it as well!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Chris Dodds - He's a Digital Learning Adviser working with many schools as part of the Rural Access Gap program and he's developed various digital teaching and learning resources and challenges that he'll tell us all about.
How Cool is My School? - sample resource from Albury West PS
Lisa Harmer - is the Manager of the T4L Rollout in ITD's Digital Learning. With the launch of this year's T4L Rollout happening very soon, let's have a chat to find out more about it!
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Episode 94 - 29 MAY 2023 - Susan & MARK
What's New with Stu?
Another issue of news.T4L just landed - let's take a deeper look at what's in it
There was a problem today relating to Scan-to-Email from multifunction devices
There's already a nice feature update to Farsight following our chat with Curtis last week!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Microsoft Stream now does a really nice job with recording your screen and including your webcam and capturing system sounds as well. And students can use it as well!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Susan Palmer - ICT Coordinator and very busy RFF teacher at Smithfield West Public School. Let's have a chat and find out all about her school and the cool things happening there with her 320 students.
Mark Young - is the ICT Coordinator and Stage 3 teacher at Woy Woy South Public School - probably the happiest school on the entire Central Coast! Let's find out what school life is really like for this burgeoning school of 630 students.
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Episode 93 - 22 MAY 2023 - CURTIS: FARSIGHT
What's New with Stu?
The department updated the Yammer "Rules of Engagement" last week
Fake Windows Defender security warnings are popping up
It's browser-based and could be related to a website you visited, maybe delivered by a compromised Extension that's installed, or part of Adware in a program or app that is installed.
Resetting and cleaning up the browser via Settings may resolve the issue, along with removing unneeded extensions
If unsure, please call EDConnect for advice
Teachers, ICT Coordinators and TSOs are often asked by parents about Internet Filtering at home
Family Zone is one service provider that many parents used, but it's being replaced by Qustudio
This Yammer post uncovered some other options worth looking into
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Microsoft's Math Solver in Edge browser is a handy tool to be aware of
Learn how to solve maths problems with the Solver
You can also get it as an app for iOS and Android
A quick demo of the tool in action
Today's Viva Hot Spot
Curtis Landesmann - he's the TSO at Randwick Public School and Georges River College - Penshurst Girls Campus.
In his own time, he developed a tool for schools, called FARSIGHT to monitor their Windows fleet of devices and provide remote management options.
The FARSIGHT client is now available on eT4L Software Catalogue, making it simple to deploy to all of the school's Windows clients
In this episode, we get a complete demo of FARSIGHT - what it does and how you use it!
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Episode 92 - 15 MAY 2023 - JACOB & SHAFQAT
What's New with Stu?
The new Dead-on-arrival procedure for devices purchased through rollout or received via various rollouts.
After much confusion, ITD's Vendor Manager worked directly with EDConnect and with our contracted vendors to streamline the process.
JAMF recently updated the YouTube playlist of short instructions/tutorials for how to perform various mobile device management tasks in Jamf Pro. If you have any new Jamf users that need to get up to speed, this is a great self-paced starting place.
eT4L Software Catalogue is playing up, particularly around accessing it. Some people can get in fine, others are seeing an issue around failed sign on via Microsoft.
Work has been going on at the back-end to move authentication to MS Azure and for some users, it's been problematic.
A Sentral/3PI data sync issue was raised today by multiple schools in case you weren't aware.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Greig may or may not be joining us today from Cook School in the Sutherland Shire. You'll have to watch to find out!
Many thanks to Yvette Poshoglian who jumped in like a champion at short notice and saved the day!
Today's Viva Hot Spots
Jacob Comber - he's the Technology Support Officer at Goonellabah Public School with their school affected indirectly by the Lismore floods, he'll fill us in on what happened and where the school is up to now.
Shafqat Ali - is the brand new Technology Support Officer at St Marys South Public School who only started in the role at the start of this year. What's it like being a brand new TSO? Let's find out.
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Episode 91 - 8 MAY 2023 - David & John
What's New with Stu?
The week 3 issue of news.T4L was released today - let's take a deep dive!
Laurens' Tip of the Week!
Take a look at the Technology Integration Matrix from the University of South Florida.
Teachers can expand their professional knowledge to successfully integrate ICT by exploring how various models or frameworks explain elements of the teaching & learning cycle. The Matrix itself looks at the active role students and teachers play and presents opportunities for the use of ICT in each of the roles.
Today's Viva Hot Spots
David Shrubb - Computing Teacher and ICT Coordinator at Nambucca Heads High School
In 1992, Nambucca Heads High School first opened, and David Shrubb was a foundation teacher at the school.
John Doherty - RFF Teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Bletchington Public School
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Episode 90 - 1 MAY 2023 - JAMES & JOACHIM
What's New with Stu?
A new term, a new name and kicking off with the 90th episode!
On eT4L Windows computers, there is no longer a FORCED default browser. Chrome was the forced default, but many users logged calls to say they wanted Edge since the Chromium version was released. Since April 12, users have been able to choose their own default browser - per device.
The stem.T4L team introduced a new short term loan kit!
A.I. Art & Photography - Yammer's newest community! You should join.
Segment Anything is a cool new and ridiculously easy AI tool for isolating and extracting any part of a photograph and pasting it into other applications. Watch how it works.
Laurens Derks shared another clever AI imaging tool called Blockade Labs Skybox - if you use Unity to code 3D worlds, you'll love it!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Networking the new FlashForge Adventurer 4 3D printer in schools
Discussing How To + Pros and Cons of networking your 3D Printers
Today's Viva Hot Spots
James Jarick - Teacher Librarian and ICT Coordinator at Sylvania Heights Public School
Joachim Cohen - School Technology Innovations Lead in the T4L Team at ITD
What's coming up in term 2?
New stem.T4L Kits! LEGO Spike Essentials | Code Jumper | Telepresence
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Episode 89 - 3 APRIL 2023 - BRENDAN & MARK
What's New with Stu?
The Microsoft Education Store closure has been postponed
So how is the Urgent Windows Security Update deployment going? And what needs to still be done?
Managing your USB Ethernet Adapters appropriately.
Episode 89 will be the end of an era with the final episode of Yammer Hot Spots. As Microsoft transitions Yammer into Viva Engage, we'll be kicking of term 2, and episode 90 with our new name - Viva Hot Spots!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
What's Tinkercad Sim Lab? Just released, Sim Lab is a new feature that will help your students build momentum with their 3D designs.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Brendan Daly - IT Admin at Westfields Sports High School
Famous sports stars in the WSHS Hall of Fame
What's Hudl Focus? - automated action video capture
Mark Berger - LaST / ICT Coordinator and DCO at Medowie Public School
MUST WATCH - fascinating discussion on the use of AI text at the school
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Episode 88 - 27 MARCH 2023 - AARON & YVETTE
What's New with Stu?
Yammer is a very powerful communications tool inside the department. Today we're going to discuss the positives and the negatives of Yammer
So there was an urgent cyber security announcement posted by ITD right in the middle of last week's Yammer Hot Spots and it caused a stir. By the time I saw it, the discussion was already completely out of hand, so we needed some sanity brought back in quickly.
Within the hour, we posted this advice to shed light on the reason for the urgent action
The following morning, before school we posted some more advice about what you might expect to see and how you should act on it
And the next day, and every subsequent day, we provided updates on how the security fixes were going
Then also on Wednesday, we demonstrated the right way to keep people advised when a problem was reported saying there were driver issues related to F12 rebuilds on a variety of devices.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Ever needed to extract text from a JPG or PNG image file? Greig will show us how to easily save retyping using Google and Microsoft tools we all have access to.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Aaron Gardener - Deputy Principal at Yandelora School
Yvette Poshoglian - T4L publishing superstar talks all about the latest issue of T4L Kids magazine!
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Episode 87 - 20 MARCH 2023 - BRENT & NICHOLAS
What's New with Stu?
Issue 95 of news.T4L came out today. Let's take a deeper dive.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Remember Amazon's drone delivery service that failed? Here is the next big development in Drone delivery services
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Brent McLaughlin - Technology Support Officer at Broken Hill High School
Nicholas Dingle - Computing teacher at Denison College - Kelso High Campus
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Episode 86 - 13 MARCH 2023 - GAI & MARK
What's New with Stu?
NAPLAN kicks off on Wednesday!
Microsoft's 365 Updates that just arrived or are coming very soon!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
LEGO EV3 end of life but not dead!
EV3 Classroom very slow to start - watch the Tip/Work around
EV3 Python Programming - MINDSTORMS EV3 Support | Everything You Need | LEGO® Education
Microsoft Windows Store for Education is closing
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Gai Cross - Disability Support Adviser | Access Inclusive Education
Mark Collinson - Learning and Support RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Mullumbimby Public School
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Episode 85 - 6 MARCH 2023 - LISA & GLENN
What's New with Stu?
We have a solution for the missing world-facing webcam on Dell base Chromebooks and HP base Notebooks
ITD's ICT Strategy team is hoping to gather details about local tech initiatives developed in schools.
Some great contributions have already been shared by many schools - check them out in the Yammer post!
Stu's Demo of the Week!
ITD are currently working on the necessary replacement for eT4L's Universal Desktop Manager (UDM) as we eventually move from Config Manager at the back-end to Microsoft InTune. We are currently working on user-acceptance testing of a prototype of Cloud Device Manager (CDM) which will deliver functions that the InTune console will not deliver. Stu will take us through a demonstration of the current prototype.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Lisa MacDonald - RFF STEM teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Shell Cove Public School
Glenn Tester - R/Head Teacher Admin, Stage 6 Industrial Technology Multimedia teacher and ICT Coordinator at Moruya High School
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Episode 84 - 27 FEBRUARY 2023 - Jessica & ANDREW
What's New with Stu?
The Week 6 issue of news.T4L for Term 1 -has been released. Let's take a deep dive.
2023 PL offerings from Google for Education Australia are now available.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
3D Printing with 'Exotic' Filaments - beyond PLA and ABS.
Flexible filament demonstration with Bowden feed on Adventurer 4
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jessica Allison - Online Assessments ICT Coordinator in Digital Field Services
Get ready for NAPLAN testing by confirming all devices to be used have been prepared for use
Andrew Balzer - Education Success Manager at Microsoft Australia
Check out all of Microsoft's free PL offerings for Semester 1 & 2
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Episode 83 - 20 FEBRUARY 2023 - TIM & KELLY
What's New with Stu?
Google Drive File Sharing - some changes are coming soon
Microsoft Visio on the Web is part of our enterprise agreement!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Main Learning Displays (MLDs) - Should teachers be using the built in Android OS, or an eT4L Mini PC?
Let's discuss it!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Tim Martin - Stage 4 IST teacher and new Digital Classroom Officer at Woodenbong Central School
An example of the use of VR with Senior Maths
The source code for this project can be loaded into Unity to run the simulation
This version of the VR Vector project has been rebuilt for the T4L HP Reverb G2. It doesn't require Unity. Just run it from the folder where it is unzipped to.
Kelly Burke - Digital Learning Leader in the Digital Teaching & Learning Team at ITD
More details and resources at the Rural Access Gap website
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Episode 82 - 13 FEBRUARY 2023 - DREW & LAURENS
What's New with Stu?
Did you know that all staff now have access to Google Workspace for Education PLUS?
One of the new included features is AppSheet Core. All staff can sign in using their DoE Google account and start creating responsive web apps that work across devices.
Bookings with Me is now available in our Outlook webmail. It's really easy to set up and works quite well. Worth checking out.
During the Christmas break, teachers started hearing about ChatGPT and the "problems" it might bring in schools. There's an interesting Yammer thread about it.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Google Classroom - Originality Reports
What is it, why would you use it and what are the limitations?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Drew Janetzki - Substantive Principal at Fern Bay PS, Professional Learning Officer at the NSW Primary Principals Association and chairman of the PPA Technology Reference Group.
Laurens Derks - Learning Designer in the stem.T4L team
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Episode 81 - 12 DECEMBER 2022 - HISTORY OF ICT SPECIAL
SPECIAL EVENT: The History of ICT in NSW Public Schools
It's the last episode for 2022, so we thought we'd go out with a bang in this bumper show!
Join us LIVE at 3:30pm on 12 December 2022 via https://T4L.link/hotspots and participate via chat
Greig and Stu will go through how tech was used in our school for the past 4 decades!
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Episode 80 - 5 DECEMBER 2022 - NAVKARAN & ADAM
What's New with Stu?
It's the last issue of news.T4L for 2022. Let's take a deep dive.
TAFE NSW are offering free Micro-Credentials for school students in Cyber Security!
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Did you know that you can control the webcam hardware settings in Teams? Greig will show us how.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Navkaran Virdi - Project Officer in the Braille and Large Print Services team.
Adam Boyd - A/ Deputy Principal at Carlingford Public School
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Episode 79 - 28 NOVEMBER 2022 - GArry & katherine
What's New with Stu?
In our last episode we pointed to a problem with the Microsoft Store for Education app on our Windows 10 devices. It only shows 25 of the 90 apps currently approved for access/use. Until Microsoft resolves the issue, the recommendation is to use the browser-based store.
Note that Microsoft will be closing the Store for Education customers in the first quarter of 2023.
Get Canva for Education's November news sheet! Lots of great tips, teaching and learning templates and a look at what's new on the online design platform.
With Hour of Code coming up next week, why not register your class for the Minecraft Education Edition: Escape Estate?
Greig's Tip of the Week!
There are lots of Logitech MeetUp conference cameras in schools, but did you know you can control the camera with and iPhone or iPad using an app?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Garry Stokes is a Stage 6 Computing teacher and ICT Coordinator at Great Lakes College Senior Campus.
Katherine Hannaford is the Teacher Librarian (and so much more!) at Macquarie Fields High School.
Check the school's 360 degree virtual tour!
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Episode 78 - 21 NOVEMBER 2022 - Annalissa & NICHOLAS
What's New with Stu?
New advice for How to deal with "Dead on Arrival" devices
The Microsoft Store seems to be broken - only the first 25 titles appear - A through E alphabetically. It's been reported.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
More MS Whiteboard tips!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots - Game Changer Challenge Winners!
Annalissa Roy is a Stage 3 teacher at Aurora College.
Her year six students blew away the primary schools competition in the Grand Final!
Nicholas Dellagiacoma is the Computing teacher and ICT Coordinator at Gymea Technology High School.
His school is the 2022 Champion in the High Schools competition
Check the Game Changer Challenge: Grand Final Report
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Episode 77 - 14 NOVEMBER 2022 - Gillian & STUART
What's New with Stu?
The week 6 issue of news.T4L for term 4 is out now! Let's take a deeper dive.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Microsoft Bookings and Bookings with Me
Setting up a Parent & Teacher booking system (YouTube)
What is Bookings with Me? (YouTube)
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Gillian Manning is the eLearning Coordinator at Dungog High School. Let's find out what that is and about the great things happening at the school.
Stuart Holstein is an ICT Team Leader in the Ultimo Digital Field Services team, but we won't be discussing that. Today, we'll be focussing on Stuart's amazing photo skills shared in Yammer's Photography community to give it some wider exposure.
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Episode 76 - 7 NOVEMBER 2022 - GAME CHANGERS
What's New with Stu?
A brand new Administration Marketplace Panel for Schools has been released
11 different approved cloud-based school admin titles are available via EdBuy with price caps and Single Sign-on.
It's Scams Awareness Week and the department has plenty of resources to help everyone learn how to spot a scam and avoid them.
eSafety webinar for older Australians is on tomorrow at 11am. They are being targeted very often and need to understand how to spot a scam - Register here.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
The new sidebar in Microsoft Edge is starting to appear in schools - let's take a closer look!
As long as you have Edge v107, it should be available. If the sidebar doesn't show up automatically, make sure you're on the latest version of the browser, and then click the “···” menu in the top right. You should see a “Show sidebar” button. If you don't, go to Settings > Appearance, and scroll down to the Customize toolbar section, where there's a “Show sidebar” toggle
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joachim Cohen, Sandy Phillips and Rob McTaggart are back as the T4L team reporting live from the Game Changer Challenge Grand Final at Parramatta State Office.
Find out more about what the Game Changer Challenge is all about!
Watch the Grand Final pitch live stream from 12:30pm on Wed 9 November!
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Episode 75 - 31 OCTOBER 2022 - Liz & HUBERT
What's New with Stu?
The Google Shared Drives are missing issue was resolved by Google on Friday afternoon. They recommend users force a Refresh in their browser which accessing Shared Drives (Ctrl-F5 on Windows or Cmd-Shift-R on Mac in Chrome)
350+ School Member Servers (that are joined to DETNSW) will have Microsoft Defender Endpoint remotely installed onto them to enhance security of these servers. No action is required on the part of the school. An email will be sent to affected schools this week.
Video Tip posted - How to create a re-usable controlled online meeting for events - there have been many questions on how to create Teams meetings like how Yammer Hot Spots works.
Greig's Tip of the Week!
Have you uses Google Maps with your students?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Liz Johnston is the Stage 3 Assistant Principal at Wirreanda Public School.
Recently the school was chosen to be part of Canva for Education's global launch
Hubert Lam is Head Teacher of Mathematics and ICT Instructional Specialist at Normanhurst Boys High School.
He's a 2022 Winner of the Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Episode 74 - 24 OCTOBER 2022 - BOYDEN & JESSICA
What's New with Stu
It's week 3, so that means we'll have a run through the latest news.T4L - issue 90!
We've had a hiccup with the T4L Rollout from HP as identified in this Yammer thread, relating to the HP Base Notebook.
Greig & Stu's Show & Tell!
Probably the quickest and easiest way to watch ANY YouTube video without ads or comments and in full screen:
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Boyden Sapsed and Jessica Wang are teachers at Guise Public School in south-west Sydney. Their school was chosen for a case study around the stem.T4L Robotics kits which were used across two classes for all of term 2 this year. The research paper was recently released and they're coming on to tell us all about how it went.
Check out all the other stem.T4L research papers!
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Episode 73 - 17 OCTOBER 2022 - ANDREW & GREG
What's New with Stu
The department's legacy F5 Remote Desktop (Terminal) Services will be shut down in Term 1.
If you school has one of these servers, you'll need to plan how you'll replace the functionality.
The department's recommended service is Azure Virtual Desktop
Get your 2023 School Calendars for your:
It looks like the Minecraft Education Edition multiplayer problem was resolved
How is the 21H2 in-place upgrade process going?
Greig & Stu's Show & Tell!
This is more a tip/demo for personal use rather than for schools - but it's up to you!
Magnetic USB Charge and Sync Cables and Connectors
- eBay link - but there are many different suppliers. We are not endorsing this or any supplier. For info only.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Andrew Lai is an Industrial Technology Multimedia teacher at Freshwater Senior Campus of the Northern Beaches Secondary College
Greg Bass is the Executive Principal at Toomelah Public School - a small remote school with 100% Aboriginal student enrolment on the Queensland border near Boggabilla.
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Episode 72 - 19 SePTEMBER 2022 - MEGAN & ROB
What's New with Stu
Great stem.T4L Kit Giveaway is underway!
The ordering section of the T4L Rollout for 2022-23 is officially over! Let's take a look at some of the numbers.
How is the 21H2 in-place upgrade process going?
Greig's Hot Tip!
Google Flex is coming along nicely as a way to convert Out-of-Warranty Windows and Mac devices. Greig had his first play with it
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Megan Anderson is a Digital Learning Adviser in ITD's Digital Support Team
Rob McTaggart is a Learning Experience Developer at ITD who is deeply involved in the use of PowerApps in NSW Education.
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Episode 71 - 12 SePTEMBER 2022 - CARYN & IAN
What's New with Stu
Did you see the post on Yammer about the Great stem.T4L Kit Giveaway??
news.T4L for week 9 of term 3 was published today. Let's take a deep dive.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Cloud Storage Tips: Managing your Cloud based files and making it easier to access, create, move etc.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Caryn Jacobs is a Stage 3 teacher and new Digital Classroom Officer at Albury West Public School.
She's been doing great work with Financial Literacy and Behaviour and shares her Excel template.
Ian Munn is a VET teacher at Yass High School.
Ian's post about the Elgato Stream Deck
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Episode 70 - 5 SePTEMBER 2022 - MONA & SHARON / JOACHIM
What's New with Stu
The T4L Computer Equipment Rollout ordering portal went live today and is open until Friday, 16 September. All details are in the new Device Catalogue. Don't forget to share your thoughts on this year's rollout with this quick online form.
Microsoft have released a range of new Surface models for schools on EdBuy. To find out more about each of these new models, please visit the Microsoft Surface on EdBuy information page.
Pending approval, the 20H2 to 21H2 in-place upgrade is scheduled to go live on Thursday evening.
Why does it seem to take so long to do something simple like adding a new driver to any given device? Understanding the size of the department's fleet of devices and the comprehensive change process required as a result, and you start to understand.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Greig's been testing something brand new in 3D printing. It may not use filament, but it will fill you up!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Mona Sidhu and Sharon Dancer from the Cyber Safety team to discuss
the upcoming Cybermarvel events for schools
lots of PL that your schools can register for now
Joachim Cohen is ITD's Schools Technology Innovations Lead and he's back to update us on all the amazing things that he's been discovering and working on.
Edutech was in Melbourne last month and Joe attended
The latest T4L Kids and magazine.T4L are out - take the challenge!
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Episode 69 - 28 August 2022 - JOSHUA / GEORGE
What's New with Stu
Google Delegated Admin has been really taking off with several schools that were managing their own Google domains converting their Google Education Upgrade licences for their domain to the department's so they can enrol them all
Right now we have 91,000+ chromebooks enrolled
With 1,402 GDAs representing 718 schools!
Reminder! Our newest PL experiment starts tomorrow morning - 15 Tips in 15 Minutes!
15 Canva tools tips in 15 minutes - Tuesday 30 August at 8:00am
15 OneDrive tips with Microsoft - Tuesday 6 September at 8:00am
15 Collaboration tips with Google Drive - Tuesday 20 September at 8:00am
Greig's Hot Tip!
Integrate Expo is Australia's premier annual AV and Integration trade show that starts tomorrow in Sydney. Greig previews some new products:
Coming soon - 21:9 wide interactive screen from HDi
VC camera options:
Logitech - Rally Bars - Logitech Rally Bar - All-In-One Video Conferencing System
YeaLink MeetingEye - Video Conferencing Devices (yealink.com)
Immersive learning spaces:
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joshua Sharpe joins us again! You may remember him as the year 10 student from Cooks Hill School that wanted to work in IT support for the department. We'll he's in year 12 now, and it's time for an update.
Don't remember what Josh said in 2020? Watch the recording.
George Morton-Ramwell is Head Teacher - Teaching and Learning at Pittwater High School on Sydney's northern beaches. George has been very busy solving problems that all schools have using PowerApps. Check the demonstrations below.
A run-through of Good Vibes - one of George's PowerApps
Know Your Students and My Best Work and other PowerApps by George
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Episode 68 - 22 August 2022 - EMMA / DARREN
What's New with Stu
The week 6 issue of news.T4L has been released. Let's take a deep dive into it.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Canva has some great new features. If you're not using it, why not?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Emma Phillips classroom teacher at Berrigan Public School in the Riverina
a small school doing great things with technology for their students!
Got Chromebooks? How to get WeVideo for your class
Darren Ponman is Deputy Principal at Hunter School of the Performing Arts in Newcastle.
There's some unique tech at this school to find out all about
How Canvas is used at Hunter School of P.A. - webinar recording
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Episode 67 - 9 MAY 2022 - BRONWYN / CATHY
What's New with Stu
The week 3 issue of news.T4L has been released. Let's take a deep dive into it.
T4L Rollout deliveries ETAs update.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Bronwyn Hatzis is the School Admin Manager (SAM) at East Hills Girls Technology High School in south-west Sydney
she's the first SAM we've ever chatted with on Hot Spots!
Cathy Brown is STEM specialist at Double Bay Public School in Sydney's east.
Check out Cathy's YouTube channel
Here's Cathy's Virtual Teacher page where she shares great STEM resources
Some great resources that Cathy uses with her students to assist with video in the classroom
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Episode 66 - 2 MAY 2022 - JOSHUA / ROBERT
What's New with Stu
Windows 10 21H2 is now available for F12 build only Recommendation for remaining v1909s at your school:
F12-rebuild student devices
Allow staff devices to In-Place Upgrade wherever possible - so ALERT YOUR STAFF that have 1909 devices that this will be enabled at the end of May, right after NAPLAN testing window closes.
Are you using Apple Macs for NAPLAN testing? There is a new Lock Down Browser app that must be installed!
Did your school get any new interactive Main Learning Displays? The T4L team have put together a page full of resources to help teachers get up to speed with their specific model !
Greig's Hot Tip!
Windows Nearby Sharing works on T4L devices in schools!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joshua Bowman a Year 4 Teacher at Eastwood Public School in northern Sydney - but he's been doing so much more:
Joshua's Yammer post on exporting 3D models from Minecraft into PowerPoint
Mr Bowman Makes - Joshua's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBowmanMakes/videos
Stage 3 Science & Technology: https://youtu.be/T6mOb5jtJfs
Stage 3 Geography: https://youtu.be/QnX_yzPNVXQ
Robert Eaton is the instructional leader Deputy Principal at Wee Waa High School in north-west NSW.
He's been putting together some practical and effecting PowerAutomate and PowerApps scripts to automate tasks at the school and he'll demonstrate some today.
Have you joined Yammer's PowerApps Playground community?
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Episode 65 - 4 April 2022 - ALICE / ANDREW
What's New with Stu
System outages reminders:
Windows 10 21H2 - both via F12-build and via In-Place Upgrade from existing v1909 will be available from early next week. Recommendation: For remaining v1909s at your school:
F12-rebuild student devices
Allow staff devices to In-Place Upgrade wherever possible - so ALERT YOUR STAFF that have 1909 devices.
Greig's Hot Tip!
We know that Chrome is about to be re-set as the department's default browser from April 7, but don't forget about the fantastic extra features that Microsoft Edge offers!
Collections - Microsoft Edge
Vertical Tabs - Microsoft Edge
Copy and Paste - Microsoft Edge Tips
Capture and MarkUp - Microsoft Edge Tips
Clipboard History - Clipboard in Windows (microsoft.com)
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Alice Leung is the Head Teacher Secondary Studies at Concord High School - but you'll regularly find her online on Yammer as well as:
tweeting away about education on Twitter
or education-focussed writing articles for her blog
Andrew Nordstrom is the Head Teacher Secondary Studies at Menindee Central School in far-west NSW.
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Episode 64 - 28 MARCH 2022 - ALISA / BEN
What's New with Stu
NAPLAN trial testing uncovered some issues, mainly with Chromebooks that won't load the LDB
It's more than likely an available space issue and Powerwashing is the best option.
What's happening with the old Connected Classrooms in schools? Are the Tandberg/Polycom VCs still used?
Serious security issue for Google Chrome browser - Windows and Mac
Emergency update to version 99.0.4844.84 - will be automatically pushed out, but for any personal devices, it's worth checking for updates.
The update is also needed for Microsoft Edge, so check for updates on that too.
Greig's Hot Tip!
How to 3D Print colours using permanent markers!
3D Printing Custom Colors with Markers (YouTube)
Print your own 3 or 6 marker holder (STL files)
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Alisa Stephens is the ICT Coordinator at Braidwood Central School where she also teaches and manages all things tech. And she's a Yammer regular too!
Ben Krisher is a teacher at Terrigal Public School, and for a change away from tech, we'll be chatting about Yammer's Photography community and the amazing shots that Ben has been sharing there lately.
Join the Yammer Photography community
Take a look through Ben's posts
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Episode 63 - 21 MARCH 2022 - AARTI & KaTE / Simon
What's New with Stu
It's Week 9, so yet another news.T4L was released this morning. Let's take a deeper dive.
The T4L team released a new site today to help schools ensure their devices are ready for NAPLAN online testing
Greig's Hot Tip!
The Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams has had some nice improvements. One of them is sharing your physical whiteboard and printed documents using your camera.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Aarti Malik is the Principal Project Manager and Kate Courtney is the Communications Lead for the project that will see Google Chrome become the default browser. But there's more to it than just that. Let's have a chat about it.
Simon Gethin is the Principal Business Analyst in the Rural Access Gap program He's been working on various online services and a new one was launched last week - The Universal Resources Hub. Let's take a look at it with Simon.
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Episode 62 - 14 MARCH 2022 - Jodie / Darren
What's New with Stu
The Windows 21H2 pilot went live a few days ago in about 20 schools. We are hoping to release 21H2 to all schools during the April school holidays
The new Universal Resources Hub was release on Friday! Make sure you share the link with your staff.
Microsoft has released Visio for the web and it's now also built into MS Teams!
Did you miss the T4L Digital Drive-Thru we held last week? You can watch the recording here.
Start next Tuesday morning with a brand new skill! You can now create and edit video with Canva!
Greig's Hot Tip!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jodie Hartwig - Teacher, ICT Coordinator at The School of the Air in Broken Hill
School website - https://schoolair-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
Darren Hope - ICT Team Leader in the Digital Field Services team at Dubbo office.
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Episode 61 - 7 MARCH 2022 - REBECCA / Yvette & JOACHIM
What's New with Stu
T4L Rollout deliveries - the ETA doc has had an update
Windows 10 v21H2 is about to be piloted by numerous schools. Following a successful trial, it will be made available as F12 rebuild and in-place upgrades - both for 1909 and 20H2 builds.
Photoshop and Premiere Elements are NOT included in the current Adobe enterprise agreement and existing installations must be removed before May.
As first announced in news.T4L at the end of term 3.
Alternatives? Try Canva and WeVideo or Adobe Premiere Rush (deployable from UDM)
Greig's Hot Tip!
PowerPoint Recording - Recording your slides or the screen to an MP4 video has been improved extensively!
Screen Recording with Stream is another option
And coming soon is PowerPoint Cameo - sneak peek
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Rebecca Toltz - Teacher Librarian, Level 2 Google Educator and Canva Champion at Bourke Street Public School
Want to be a Certified Google Educator?
Take a look at Bourke Street Public School's new build
Check out the department's Information Fluency Framework
Yvette Poshoglian and Joachim Cohen - The dynamic duo from the T4L team
Register now to join tomorrow's T4L Digital Drive-Thru
Get the latest copy of T4L Kids magazine
Get the latest copy of magazine.T4L
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Episode 60 - 6 DECEMBer 2021 - GREG / IAN
What's New with Stu
T4L Rollout ordering closed on Friday! - What did schools order?
Greig's Hot Take!
It's Hour of Code week and Greg will share his review of the various events on offer
Hour of Code: Join the largest learning event in history, December 6-12, 2021
stem.T4L Resource board - Hour of Code 2021
magazine.T4L – Hour of Code edition
T4L.kids - T4L Kids – Hour of Code edition
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Greg Mawson - External ICT Support for four schools, and Google Delegated Admin
Ian Tobitt - D.P. and Head Teacher, Teaching and Learning at Sydney Distance Education High School
SDEHS Showcase - Video production, podcasting, virtual events and VR tours
The school uses MS Sway for its newsletters
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Episode 59 - 29 NOVEMBer 2021 - Sandy / Yvette - HOUR OF CODE
What's New with Stu
The last issue of news.T4L for 2021 was published today - let's take a closer look
Privacy and the use of web and cloud-based services with students - a very interesting and important topic
Greig's Hot Take!
Looking ahead at 3D Printing!
What's happening with the FlashForge Inventor 2?
What's happening with the other models in the FlashForge consumer range?
What about high-end 3D printers?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
All about next week's global Hour of Code events!
Sandy Phillips - Digital Classroom Adviser in the stem.T4L team
Yvette Poshoglian - T4L Utilisation and Innovations team
Magazine.T4L is all about supporting you in the classroom with resources to get your students coding, prototyping and designing in no time
T4L Kids is about app and game design, from prototyping to production especially for Stages 3-4
Check the magazines and join us for one of 9 live T4L webinars and incursions in Weeks 9 and 10 and explore one of 44 dedicated Hour of Code resources (or more)
Register your own official school event – there are currently 250+ school events registered!
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Episode 58 - 22 NOVEMBer 2021 - KENT / JOACHIM
What's New with Stu
The 2021-22 T4L Rollout was launched today and generated a bit of discussion
Google Blogger will no longer be available to students K-12 from the end of the year
As the year draws to a close, staff will leave your school. Are they still members of your MS Teams or Google Shared Drives?
Greig's Hot Take!
What happened to the MS Whiteboard desktop app?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Kent Hughes - Program Architect - Technology 4 Learning
Joachim Cohen - School Technology Innovation Lead, T4L team
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Episode 57 - 15 NOVEMBer 2021 - DAVID / MICHAEL
What's New with Stu
All-day Wednesday and Thursday morning outage for two weeks in a row. What's going on?
REMINDER - If you have students leaving a NSW Public School, they need to be aware of their access to school services
Who wants a sneak peek at the T4L Rollout Devices Catalogue? You'll need to watch the show!
Greig's Hot Take!
Real-world robots:
Automated Grocery Shopping in the UK (YouTube link)
Grocery shopping US style (YouTube link)
Inside Amazon's Smart Warehouse (YouTube link)
Five Amazing Warehouse Robots (YouTube link)
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
David Charters - TAS eacher and Computer Coordinator at Parramatta High School
Michael Teague - ICT Coordinator and Stage 3 teacher at Grays Point Public School
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Episode 56 - 8 NOVEMBer 2021 - Chris / elizabeth
What's New with Stu
news.T4L issue 79 was released - let's take a closer look
The launch of the process to approve YouTube videos for K-10 students
The authorisation (via MMA/MSA) of certain staff at the school to be YouTube video APPROVERS - to whitelist videos for restricted users
A significant wireless connection outage affected most schools on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Online collaborative whiteboard shootout:
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Chris Harris - STEAM teacher at Fairfield Heights Public School
Elizabeth Jugovac - ICT Coordinator and RFF teacher at Villawood North Public School
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Episode 55 - 1 NOVEMBer 2021 - ARTHUR / BRETT
What's New with Stu
The New Staff Portal was released
Integrating the Staff Essentials with Inside the Department (DoE Intranet)
Manage School Essentials is now live, with the ability to push shortcuts to students
Join the NSW DoE Portals group to share any feedback
What's going on with Google Chrome Extensions and Add-Ons for Students?
Greig's Hot Tip!
What's happening with Lego WeDo 2.0?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Arthur Zigas - Senior Pathways Officer
Brett Kent - STEM Community Leader and Adobe Education Specialist
Apply to join the Adobe Champions program
Upcoming T4L Adobe PL Events: Adobe Spark | Adobe TeachMeets - session 1 & session 2
Check out the Adobe Education Exchange
And don't forget! So many Adobe self-paced learning courses at LinkedIn Learning!
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Episode 54 - 25 OCTOBer 2021 - Jeffery / larissa
What's New with Stu
School's back and YouTube Restricted Mode has been turned on for ALL STAFF and students.
There's a new Staff Portal launching at the end of the week!
NSW DoE Cloud Migration strategy
Greig's Hot Tip!
Main Learning Display options are still causing confusion for schools
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jeffery Reid - School Counsellor (inner-west Sydney)
Larissa Mullan - Change Analyst in the Cloud Migration team
see link above for more on the Cloud Migration strategy
Advice on moving your personal U: drive to Microsoft OneDrive
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Episode 53 - 18 OCTOBer 2021 - LINDA / ROBYN
What's New with Stu
Issue 78 of news.T4L was released! Let's take a closer look.
DELL Latitude 7420 needs a BIOS update
The T4L Digital Drive-Thru is moving timeslots from next week. Have your say on when it should be starting from week 4.
Greig's Hot Tip!
360 degree Cameras
Great resources on the stem.T4L website - 360° Camera kit
Ricoh Theta 4k 360 camera - 360-degree camera RICOH THETA - Available on EdBuy. $539
Here are some alternatives - The best 360 cameras in 2021 | Digital Camera World
Software: Situ and CoSpaces Pro have free to use license with the stem.T4L kits.
CoSpaces Basic free. Pro US$75 per year 5 seats.
Situ 360 - $250 per year 35 seats
Software that comes with cameras.
T4L Software - How to Make a Digital Art 360° Panorama with Photoshop CC 2018
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Linda Lazenby - PEO - Digital Support Team and stem.T4L
DLA positions close this Wednesday
Robyn Veugen - Teacher Librarian and Digital Classroom Officer at Dubbo Public School
Check the case study of the proof of concept for the Rural Access Gap that Dubbo PS was involved in
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Episode 52 - 11 OCTOBer 2021 - DIGITAL LEARNING ADVISORS SPECIAL
What's New with Stu
Windows 10 v1809 devices in schools will be disabled from 1 November and will need an F12-rebuild ASAP.
The old Netboot option for Apple Macs via eT4L was decommissioned today
DoE's Google Workspace service now allows staff to easily lookup students, staff and auto-generated Groups using Autofill
Queensland Education's Coding@Home webisodes are all now available online! They are a fantastic resource for students interested in kicking off their coding journey!
Greig's Hot Tip!
Hour of Code is coming up in December!
MTA will be adding the new Root iRobot onto EdBuy very soon, hopefully with better pricing for schools.
Here is their current purchase information
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Craig Merrick and Michael West join us from the Digital Learning Advisors team to discuss
Former Yammer Hot Spots guest, Craig Merrick returns together with Michael West - they are two of the eight Digital Learning Advisors (DLAs) that started in their new role in Term 3 and will tell us all about it!
A further seven DLAs are being recruited right now to bolster the statewide team.
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Episode 51 - 13 September 2021 - CYBER SECURITY SPECIAL
What's New with Stu
Google Chrome Extensions and Add-Ons - Yammer came to the rescue!
Using the Microsoft Authenticator app on your Phone to simplify authenticating the Azure Virtual Desktop sessions.
Google Forms Autosave feature - it's now alive!
Greig's Hot Tip!
New Outlook Webmail after migration to Exchange Online
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Mona Sidhu and Sharon Dancer join us from the Cyber Safety team to discuss
the Cybermarvel website for fun videos, games and other curated resources and scheduled events to get your students involved throughout October and beyond.
the eSafety Commissioner’s Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education
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Episode 50 - 6 September 2021 - JOACHIM / MARK
What's New with Stu
The latest issue of news.T4L was released today. Let's take a deeper dive!
Reading Progress was released in our Microsoft 365 tenant together with a launch webinar to be held tomorrow!
Hot on the heels of the K-6 and Early Learning Guided Activities there are new 7-10 Learning Support Activities to share with your high school teachers!
Greig's Hot Tip!
Coding in the Accessibility space
Core Jumper - Code Jumper
On-line resources - Unpacking Code Jumper : Code Jumper: An inclusive physical coding language - Microsoft Educator Center
Purchase from:
Humanware - Humanware - Code Jumper - Low vision & blindness solutions
Vision Australia - Code Jumper | eShop (visionaustralia.org)
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joachim Cohen - Leader of the T4L Utilisation and Innovation team in ITD
Mark Greentree - the department's Director of Technology for Learning, who is also the R/Executive Director of Customer Experience and Service Delivery.
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Episode 49 - 30 August 2021 - curtis / NEIL
What's New with Stu
New Learning for Home resources for High Schools (stages 4 & 5) coming on Wednesday
There is a new Cyber Safety community on Yammer
Things coming next week:
Sept 8 - The first schools in the general migration to Exchange Online - schedule to be published in news.T4L
Sept 9 - ChromeOS 92 will begin rolling out to DoE-enrolled Chromebooks
Greig's Hot Tip!
The Jabra PanaCast series of web conferencing cameras are worth taking a look at.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Curtis Landesmann is a newer Technology Support Officer, currently working at both Randwick Public School and the Penshurst Girls Campus of Georges River College. Let's have a chat!
Check out Curtis' little side-project - Farsight
Neil Lavitt - principal at Cronulla South Public School joins us again to fill us in on how his school has been managing teaching and learning from home.
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Episode 48 - 23 August 2021 - BEN / CHRIS
What's New with Stu
New resources to help staff and students with getting onto Canva for Education:
There is an ongoing Teacher to Student email issue happening at the moment.
It's being investigated. Some have said the issue doesn't happen if sending from Outlook desktop.
Greig's Hot Tip!
YouTube Trimmer is a very handy tool that:
Lets you easily share just a section of a YT video with students
Present the segment in full screen (no recommended videos or comments)
Doesn't include ads.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Ben Tindale is one of ITD's amazing Service Relationship Managers that lead a local team of ICT Field Operations staff that directly support schools in their area. Ben covers the Macquarie Park operational area.
Chris Cividino is a Digital Learning Advisor in the Digital Support Team. What's all that about? Let's have a chat!
Digital Support Team webpage
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Episode 47 - 16 August 2021 - SARAH / LEO
What's New with Stu
news.T4L issue 76 for week 6 is out! Let's take a closer look.
Newly updated Guidelines to support schools using live video with students
Regular Learning from Home Webinars every Wednesday
Greig's Hot Tip!
This might help while working from home with web conferencing
Upcoming Robotics competitions:
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Sarah Kennedy is a teacher and School ICT Coordinator at Oatley Public School in southern Sydney. Let's catch up and see what's happening there.
Leo Guisti is a relatively new Technology Support Officer at St Clair High School. Let's have a chat!
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Episode 46 - 9 August 2021 - MARLENE / GREG
What's New with Stu
Remote Access for School staff now with a handy getting started video
Zoom went down across Australia today for about an hour
What's the plan for Zoom in NSW DoE going forward?
Hot off the press - New student portals will be released in September - high schools first and then primary schools
Greig's Hot Tip!
Microsoft MakeCode updates!
Note: MakeCode Labs are experimental platforms
BuildBee | MakeCode - Approved to join the Official MakeCode group soon! (Australian)
3D Printing using Programming - Block, Java and Python languages.
Applied understanding of XYZ Coordinates, Shape Formulae, Coding and more
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Marlene Filippi is the Teacher Library and School ICT Coordinator at Newbridge Heights Public School where multiple technology teaching and learning initiatives are in place.
Greg Pollard is the Head Teacher Admin and School ICT Coordinator at Kirrawee High School. Let's have a chat!
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Episode 45 - 2 August 2021 - SHEREE / YVETTE
What's New with Stu
The fix for the Adobe sign-on on eT4L computers was pushed out to all managed devices at schools and in corporate offices. Devices that are at home and unable to join the DETNSW network will need to continue with the workaround.
I produced a couple of Getting Started with Yammer videos that are worth sharing with any staff at your school who are yet to discover what Yammer is and how they are missing out.
The TSO's Toolbox is a cool Wiki page put together in Yammer by Ondrej Zima, highlighting the various online tools that TSOs can use. This follows on from the handy pinned posts at the top of the ICT Support and Microsoft Teams groups.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Handy Adobe PhotoShop alternatives:
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Sheree Joseph is the Campaign and Strategy Lead in the Content and Digital Transformation team. She is currently leading the daily Education LIVE initiative , producing livestreams for students across NSW
Check out past Education LIVE recordings at the Learning from Home website
Yvette Poshoglian is a Superhero content creator in the T4L Utilisation and Innovations team. She's also an accomplished author and was a presenter on Education LIVE!
Check out all the books that Yvette has published
Over 18,000 students are registered to join into the 2021 Virtual Book Week!
Discover the Everyone's an Author set of resources
Find all the past issues of magazine.T4L and T4L Kids
Subscribe to T4L's Virtual Staffroom podcast
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Episode 44 - 26 JuLY 2021 - ANDREW / NGAIRE
What's New with Stu
Issue 75 of news.T4L was released! Let's take a deeper dive.
Dealing with inappropriate posts by students on Teams or Classroom
Greig's Hot Tip!
Have you discovered the Speechify extension for Chrome or Edge Chromium to easily do text to speech?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Andrew O'Brien is a STEM Curriculum Adviser for Secondary Schools at Parramatta Office
Have you joined the Statewide Staffrooms for your KLAs?
Ngaire Booth is the Teacher Librarian at Nyngan High School who you'll find regularly on Yammer!
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Episode 43 - 19 JuLY 2021 - BRENDAN / NICK
What's New with Stu
Adobe Creative Cloud apps on Windows reporting "Update required" when trying to sign in
New T4L Learning pathways have been shared to help staff build their skills in:
In case you missed it, SketchUp Pro 2021 is still available for free for home use until the end of this year
Is Yammer a safe space for us all to ask questions about our work?
Greig's Hot Tip!
Accessing commonly used websites into progressive web apps via Chrome or Edge Chromium
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Brendan Jones is a long time Yammer user and Teacher Quality Advisor in the Adamstown Office
Nick Patsianas is back for a second chat to discuss his new role in NSW DoE as a Publications Officer in the Digital Solutions team
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Episode 42 - 21 June 2021 - Greg sharkey retirement special
What's New with Stu
With one week of school left, we only have limited time to identify all remaining "out-of-support" Windows devices at schools:
1607 and 1709 MUST be F12 rebuilt
1809 can be F12'd or allowed to run the eT4L In-Place Upgrade
Known issues with the IPU for Windows 10 v1809 devices:
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 - dock and webcam may not work. To fix, install the "17763" driver from here
Acer TravelMate x514 (advanced notebook) - Wireless driver missing. To fix install the Intel 9560 driver from here
HP EliteDesk 800 G2 (advanced desktop) - nVidia graphics driver missing. Still being confirmed.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Learn something new over the school holidays! If you're stuck at home these holidays, why not use the time to learn something new?
Is there a robot or other STEM peripheral at school that you'd like to learn about? Take it home with you and find out how it works!
What about learning more about some of the amazing Digital Tools available to all schools?
Have you never really got into the amazing Adobe Creative Cloud tools? Why not learn how to use PhotoShop?
Or just catch up on past episodes of Yammer Hot Spots that you might have missed!
Today's Yammer Hot Spot!
We'll have an extended chat with Greg Sharkey who is the ICT Service Relationship Manager for the Ultimo operational area, and who is also about to retire from the NSW DoE after 37 years in teaching and IT support.
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Episode 41 - 7 June 2021 - FIONA / JOE
What's New with Stu
The old script that was paused in April 2020 was resumed on Friday - Any managed Windows device that has not been used for more than six months had its DETNSW computer record disabled.
YouTube Restricted Mode - a pilot was run in 2020 with 24 schools to trial this across Kindergarten through Year 10. Following discussions with the Secondary Principals Council, it's been decided that YouTube will be opened to ALL high school students from the middle of Term 3. Years 7-10 will get Restricted mode, while Years 11-12 and staff will continue with their current access level.
Java SE and Flash Player are expected to be remotely removed from eT4L devices from 18 June 2021
Apple Caching Server - new Mac Mini M1 model now on EdBuy!
NOTE: While you can buy these now, it is essential that when purchasing, the Apple Caching Server is the ONLY item on your purchase order with Apple
It's recommended that you don't connect and turn on before the start of Term 3, while final configurations on the central JAMF Pro service are completed.
Greig's Hot Tip!
Getting your head around native screen sharing in Windows 10
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Fiona Gawne is the Technology Support Officer at Narrandera High School in the Riverina area
Joe Knagge is the ICT Service Relationship Manager for the Dubbo operational area, which takes in Narrandera and far beyond!
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Episode 40 - 31 MAY 2021 - DEB / MARY
What's New with Stu
Since the new lock screen appeared last Thursday, 20H2 builds have sped up. We now have almost 90,000 complete!
It was at 65,000 last Monday
UDM update to allow for a 20 character alphanumeric Comment to be added to each device is scheduled for 10 June (assuming it's approved by the change management committee)
This will help with identifying each device either by age and/or owner
Connecting Metro Schools? When is it happening?
What options do metropolitan schools have for getting their network infrastructure upgraded?
Greig's Hot Tip!
Maths Whiteboard - online collaborative whiteboard tool
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Deb Hogg is the Teacher Librarian at Bankstown Girls High School.
Find out more about Shootsta and Schools Video
Bankstown Girls High School website
Mary Nikolakopoulos is the Teacher Librarian at Clemton Park Public School.
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Watch the recording here! - NOTE: something happened and Teams only recorded audio. We're trying to recover the video, but no guarantees. Sorry!
Episode 39 - 24 MAY 2021 - Jacob / ANDREW
What's New with Stu
The latest news.T4L is out! Let's go through it a little more closely.
Internet@Edge - new sites getting a Fortinet FortiGate appliance. Three different filters are now in use across DoE.
Greig's Hot Tips
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jacob Druce is a Film and Video Graphics Designer in the T4L team.
Andrew Balzer returns to YHS, but this time representing Microsoft!
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Episode 38 - 17 MAY 2021 - YASMIN
What's New with Stu
Primary Principals Association Technology Reference Group meetings are held each term and I provide them with an update. Here is the latest.
Adobe Creative Cloud / Acrobat activation code expiry - What's going on?
Wireless driver issue on Windows 10 v1909 and 20H2 on newest model HP and Dell laptops - see Mohammed Riyazuddin's post - Still being worked on by DDAC.
Today's Yammer Hot Spot
Yasmin Narielvala is the acting Executive Director of Infrastructure Services at ITD. As one of the members of ITD's executive Leadership team, she manages a wide variety of teams that provide the nuts and bolts of the department's technology infrastructure.
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Episode 37 - 10 MAY 2021 - Merryn / nick
What's New with Stu
Scheduled UDM maintenance tomorrow afternoon
LinkedIn Learning is free via some public libraries
Where are we up to with old Windows 10 rebuilds?
The release of Chrome OS 88 has been delayed due to NAPLAN testing. Now expected the week of 24 May.
Transformation of Support Services in NSW DoE - there are opportunities to have your say
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Merryn Whitfield is the Instructional Leader Literacy at Peakhurst Public School. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but she has been doing great things with technology in the classroom for many years, so let's find out!
Nick Biddle works at Newcastle High School as the Head Teacher of Computing Studies. As well as a regular on Yammer, he's been doing amazing transformational work at the school.
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Episode 36 - 3 MAY 2021 - ERIC / JOANNE
What's New with Stu
The latest news.T4L is causing a bit of a stir with some of the articles it included. Let's go through them.
Hot product of the Week with Greig
What on earth is an mBot Neo?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Eric McCarron is a stem.T4L Community Leader. He's been doing amazing work, particularly in promoting creativity in the classroom.
Creating a Digital Second Brain - a good visual link to follow
Joanne Sheppard works at Fairvale Public School and as well as being a classroom teacher, she's the school's ICT Coordinator and a regular on Yammer.
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Episode 35 - 26 ApRIL 2021 - CATHIE / DAVID & JAMES
What's New with Stu
The Rural Access Gap Program - It's starting to roll out, and with it are some new standards
New Windows devices will be "Ready for T4L" and don't require an F12 build
Windows 20H2 was released, and schools are already updating in big numbers. But what will happen to old 1607, 1709 and shortly 1809 that are all end-of-support as far as Microsoft is concerned?
Tip of the Week with Greig
New proposed standards for wireless screen sharing/casting/mirroring/extending in NSW DoE.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Cathie Circosta is a Teacher at Hoxton Park Public School in Sydney's south-west. She's a long time Yammer user at a school that's been doing amazing things with technology and kicking goals for many years.
David Isaacs is the Systems Administrator and James Rudd is the Network Administrator at one of the department's premier selective high schools, Sydney Boys. It's one of only a few non-eT4L schools in the state, so let's find out what that's all about.
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Episode 34 - 29 MARCH 2021 - DAVID / JO
What's New with Stu
Did you know this episode caps off the first year of Yammer Hot Spots?
We're had 65 different guests to chat to and produced 18.5 hours of recorded viewing!
Windows 20H2 is almost here, but many schools are jumping into the pilot and building devices
With the Adobe Creative Cloud 2020 suite, you can only be signed into 2 devices at a time!
Tip of the Week with Greig
Remote Desktop Manager - David Summerville's discovery
You can install and run this for free and it will let you RDP to multiple devices in a room at the same time - great for remotely kicking on a rebuild via Software Center!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
David Summerville is the Head Teacher of Technology at the Wallsend Campus of Callaghan College in Newcastle. A long time Yammer user and a longer time school computer coordinator. We'll be chatting about the past and the future and they amazing things happening with tech at his school.
Jo Horne is another long term Yammer user. As the TSO (Technology Support Officer) and Science Lab Technician at Wee Waa High School, she'll be sharing stories about her school's recent changes, the Rural Access Gap and how everybody has coped with it.
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Episode 33 - 22 MARCH 2021 - LAURA / WAYNE
What's New with Stu
news.T4L for week 9 /T1 was released today. Let take a closer look.
It's been really wet. What should you do if you get water damage to computer devices?
Tip of the Week with Greig
Windows 10 screen snipping tools
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Laura Chaffey is the new relieving Principal at Stroud Road Public School, but for many years she's been a Yammer devotee and an amazing teacher at The Junction Public School in Newcastle. Let's catch up on her really big change!
Wayne Forbes is one of a team of Digital Classroom Officers directly supporting new build schools and also now Rural Access Gap schools with taking control of their big influx of technologies
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Episode 32 - 15 MARCH 2021 - Craig / sung
What's New with Stu
Edge Chromium browser is coming to eT4L Tier 1 apps! Pilot is about to start.
Minecraft Education Edition - From 1 April, it is expected that individual licences will again be required for all students and staff
Adobe Creative Cloud - older devices still using CC 2018 with an enterprise activation may stop working
Find of the Week with Greig
What is the Jellybean Printed Car?
Open RC F1 cars
#OpenRC - Fully 3D Printed RC McLaren F1 Racing Car - YouTube
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Craig Merrick is a TAS teacher at Armidale Secondary College who has been doing a lot of work with gamification in the classroom
He's been doing this for a long time! Education and Dragons - the gamification of schools
Take a look at the brand new Armidale Secondary College
Check out Craig's Yammer posts all about gamification!
Sung Yoon is a long term PDHPE teacher and brand new School ICT Coordinator at Central Sydney Intensive English High School who also recently joined Yammer. His school is also very new!
Take a look at the brand new Central Sydney Intensive English High School
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Episode 31 - 8 MARCH 2021 - SIMON MAIZELS
What's New with Stu
The delayed T4L Rollout has started! The ordering portal is open and the T4L Rollout Catalogue is available!
Setting your profile pic in Yammer - finally there's a way to show yourself in Yammer with a photo or avatar instead of just initials!
A great question about livestreaming from school brought up some excellent discussion and resources
Tip of the Week with Greig
What is Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and why should you consider using it on your livestreams?
Using a virtual whiteboard in a live or recorded session by writing on the video display
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Our extra special guest today is Simon Maizels - Group Director, Teaching and Learning Experience in ITD
It's not often we get to speak with senior executives, so this should be good.
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Episode 30 - 1 MARCH 2021 - Neil / Mona
What's New with Stu
The week 6 issue of news.T4L is out - let's take a closer look
Check out picktime.com - could be a very handy (free) online calendar booking service for your school
Stu's YouTube Channel - almost 80 videos up there!
Tip of the Week with Greig
What are Interactive End Point devices?
magazine.T4L feature on MLDs and MoCoWs
Interactive End Point devices are coming soon!
Also, upcoming changes to MoCoW and MLD definitions
and a new category in the works called a SSLeD (Screen Sharing Learning Display).
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Neil Lavitt – Principal at Cronulla South Public School
also, Neil is a representative on the Primary Principals Association (PPA) Technology Reference Group (TRG)Mona Sidhu – from the Digital Education Solutions team at Parramatta Office
Find out about the different website categories used by the DoE web filtering service
A handy video explaining the importance of understanding a web service's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
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Episode 29 - 22 february 2021 - DaNIEL / SANDY
What's New?
In a follow-up to last week, SMART Notebook Basic 20.1, Adobe Acrobat DC 21 and NAPLAN Lockdown Browser 2.4.6 is now in the eT4L Software Catalogue.
Google Drive for Desktop is also available. But is there a problem with it?
Our chat with Mark Greentree last week about the T4L Rollout raised some questions...
Tip of the Week
Making your own Microsoft Teams Mute Button using Makey Makey
Will it work? You'll have to watch to find out. Resource links below.
Back of the Board Tutorial- More Inputs! – Joylabz Official Makey Makey Store
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Daniel Woo – Apple iPad external tech support at multiple schools
Sandy Phillips – Digital Classroom Adviser in the stem.T4L team at ITD
Find Sandy in the stem.T4L group
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Episode 28 - 15 february 2021 - MARK / JAMES & JONO
What's New?
What teachers who use SMART Notebook 11.4 can do now that Flash is dead.
The biggest talking point of the past week has been the new brand-guidelines compliant My Essentials icons in the Staff Portal.
Tip of the Week
Have you had a play with Experiments with Google?
It's Google's ever-growing showcase of amazing experiments using Chrome, Android, AI, Web VR, AR and more.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Mark Greentree – Director T4L and R/ Executive Director, Customer Experience and Service Delivery
Updating us on the two T4L Rollouts scheduled during 2021
James Quiring & Jono Phillip – ICT Service Relationship Managers at Tamworth Operational area
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Episode 27 - 8 february 2021 - JO / stephen
What's New?
The first issue of news.T4L for 2021 was released today! Let's take a deep dive.
The Oracle Java predicament will help drive Windows 10 1909 rebuilds
Tip of the Week
What's a Raspberry Pi Pico? Greig will explain it all!
Resources:
Where to buy (with soldered headers) - https://bityl.co/5X11
Alternative supplier and learning resources to support its use in class - https://bityl.co/5X13
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jo Sayers – Principal at Rainbow Street Public School in Sydney's east
Find out about the amazing redevelopment at her school
Stephen Turner – Technology Support Officer at Coonabarabran High School
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Episode 26 - 7 DECember 2020 - MARK / GILLIAN
What's New?
The final issue of news.T4L for 2020 was released! Let's take a deep dive.
Google CloudPrint closing down at the end of December. If you use this with Chromebooks, you'll need to find an alternative.
Tip of the Week
Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings are coming soon!
Check out Experiments with Google - this is a one-stop shop of all the little geeky experiments Google teams have produced that don't yet have a formal home as an approved products. Most of them need Google Chrome (or Edge Chromium browser)
Have you had a play with AppInventor since MIT took it over from Google?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Mark Hailston – ICT Senior Support Officer and Apple Champion from our Goulburn office
Gillian Maugle – Teacher Librarian at Wiley Park Public School in Sydney's south-west
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Episode 25 - 30 November 2020 - NATHAN / JOSHUA & MITCH
What's New?
Tip of the Week
Yes, it's still the default browser, but it's time to convince all staff and students to stop using Internet Explorer 11 unless they really need to use it for compatibility.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Nathan MacGregor – Teacher at Soldiers Point Public School and long time Yammer user
Nathan's Book Creator beginner's guide
Nathan's Countdown game in SMART Notebook
Joshua Sharpe and Mitchell Hill – Joshua's a year 10 student at Cooks Hill Campus, where Mitch is also the TSO.
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Episode 24 - 23 November 2020 - AISLING/OLIVER & MARTIN/ROSEMARIE
What's New?
Tip of the Week
Prowise Connect is now available online and is a great way to collaborate with students around your interactive touch screen.
SMART Notebook Basic V19.1 is in Software Catalogue for deployment via UDM.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Aisling McKillop & Oliver Best – Strategic Communications team & NSW DoE Yammer owners
Martin Lee & Rosemarie Sirol – Bribbaree Public School
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Episode 23 - 16 NOVEMBER 2020 - "THE RAG" WITH MARK & MICHELLE
What's New?
news.T4L for W6 | T4 is out - Let's take a deep dive
Bootable USB Stick for eT4L PCs - A must have tool for School ICT Coordinators and TSOs
Tip of the Week
Drones and 3D Printers in schools - New official safety advice
Today's Yammer Hot Spots - The Rural Access Gap Special
Mark Greentree – Director T4L and R/ Executive Director, Customer Experience and Service Delivery
Michelle Michael – Director, Learning Design and Development
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Episode 22 - 9 NOVEMBER 2020 - THE EDUTECH SPECIAL WITH LYNDA & JOE
What's New?
Apple WiFi Certificates update - Make sure you do this if you don't use Jamf Pro to manage your Apple devices!
Windows 10 v1909 - We're up to almost 48,000 builds already!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots - The EduTECH Special
Linda Lazenby – Principal Education Officer, stem.T4L team
Joachim Cohen – Leader - T4L Utilisation and Innovation Team
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Episode 21 - 2 November 2020 - PETER N & PETER C
What's New?
Get your 2021 School Calendar for Outlook - or if you'd prefer - Get it for Google Calendar
EduTech 2020 - Get 10 free tickets for your school to join into EduTech this year online!
Tip of the Week
Artificial Intelligence in Office 365 - PowerPoint's new A.I. Designer
A quick video to demonstrate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1-0R-oZI8
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Peter Noakes – Ingleburn High School - Maths Teacher and ICT Coordinator
Peter Coppola – Director User Interface & Portal in Information Technology Directorate
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Episode 20 - 26 OCTOBER 2020 - KARL & ADAM
What's New?
news.T4L issue 66 was released - Let's go through and discuss the articles.
Broadband uplifts for schools - The original goal was a minimum of 5mbps per student by 2025. That's being brought forward!
Cyber Security - NSW Directive - Email from Emma Hogan to all staff on 23 October
Tip of the Week
Artificial Intelligence in Office 365 - starting with Microsoft Editor
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Karl Easton – Kellyville Ridge Public School
Adam Watson – STEM Community Leader in the T4L team
Adam's channel on Stream - cool, quick tutorials on STEM
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Episode 19 - 19 OCTOBER 2020 - THE ADOBE SPECIAL WITH TIM & BRETT
What's New?
Adobe Creative Cloud is now via SSO! - For all DoE staff and students - no need for redemption codes from Kivuto any more!
Apple WiFi Certificates update - Make sure you do this if you don't use Jamf Pro to manage your Apple devices!
Windows 10 v1909 - We're up to 28,000 builds already!
Tip of the Week
Meet the brand new BBC micro:bit - now with speaker and microphone! Coming in November 2020
Today's Yammer Hot Spots - The Adobe Special
Tim Kitchen – Senior Education Specialist for Adobe in the Asia-Pacific region
Brett Kent – STEM Community Leader in the T4L team, and an Adobe Education Leader since 2012
T4L Adobe familiarisation webinar - This Thursday from 3:30-4:00pm
Adobe MAX International Creativity Conference is on THIS WEEK! Don't miss it.
Inject Creativity Live Events - Every Wednesday at 6:30pm - for 1 hour of NESA-endorsed PL!
The Adobe Education Exchange - Connect with educators from all over the world who use Adobe products
Adobe for Education on YouTube - Great video masterclasses designed for teachers!
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Episode 18 - 14 SEPTEMBER 2020 - ASK US ANYTHING!
What's New?
Windows 10 v1909 is coming! - From this Thursday, you can deploys the latest eT4L build!
Adobe Single Sign On - It's coming sooner than we thought! For some types of access, anyway.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots - ASK US ANYTHING!
For 17 episodes, we brought you latest news, tips and great chats with fellow NSW DoE staff, from schools and from ITD. But for the last episode of this term, we thought we'd do something different!
Have your question(s) prepared - hopefully something to do with tech
Raise your virtual hand and when we acknowledge you...
Turn on your webcam and mic and ask away!
We have no idea how this will turn out, or what we will say, but there's only one way to find out - that's to join us live!
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Episode 17 - 14 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STAN & JANINE
What's New?
The latest issue of news.T4L - A quick run through issue 65 - Week 9 of Term 3.
The Great Apple WiFi Outage - This was two days of frustration last week.
Tip of the Week
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Stan Strijakov – Network Plan and Design Lead in ITD - Stan is from Infrastructure Services and helps to look after one of the largest computer networks in the country
Janine Parlevliet – ICT Support Leader at Tamworth Field Operations - Supporting 60 schools in the New England area, Janine and her team address EDConnect tickets plus much more!
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Episode 16 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2020 - LAURENS & GEORGINA
What's New?
Streamlined.Logon has a launch date for all remaining schools! Can't wait.
Hubert's Chrome Tips - plus a few other extensions to look at
Tip of the Week
Greig will discuss the update to LEGO Mindstorms for EV3. If using a Mac, the old block-based programming tool doesn't work on the latest version of MacOS. Instead, there's a new Classroom version that does based on Scratch. Note: LEGO EV3 Mindstorms is still available and works on Windows 10. Check out the LEGO Education Resources webpage to see all the alternatives available, including Python.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Laurens Derks – Learning Designer, stem.T4L team - Laurens works at maintaining authenticity when it comes to applying a variety of technologies in teaching and learning
Georgina Taylor – EAL/D at Eastlakes Public School - A long-time Yammer user, Georgina loves her tech and strives to make best use of it at school
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Episode 15 - 31 AUGUST 2020 - DDAC SPECIAL: RYAN & STEPHEN
What's New?
Did you miss the T4L Expo last week? You can now join in on-demand. Greig can fill us in on how it was put together.
Streamlined.Logon has kicked off for all corporate staff and for 104 schools. First impressions?
Tip of the Week
Who has lots of browser tabs open whenever they use they are on the Internet? Stu looks at some cool ways that Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chromium allow you to manage tabs.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Today is our DDAC Special! The Directories, Desktops & Collaboration team are part of ITD's Infrastructure Services. They specifically manage the standard devices and key systems behind the services that schools use every day, like MS Office, Email, web conferencing. Previously, we've chatted to other DDAC representatives like Dave Smith who covered user directories, email and conferencing and Coreen Burt who talked all about software packaging in eT4L. Today we'll be speaking with:
Stephen Gosch – Principal Configuration Manager Specialist - All the stuff that keeps eT4L systems manageable like Config Manager, system updates, build images, testing and confirming new devices.
Ryan McDonell – Senior Technology Lead - Ryan's team looks after all our standard devices, Windows, Macs, iPads, Chromebooks and what goes onto them.
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Episode 14 - 24 AUGUST 2020 - AMANDA & DENISE
What's New?
Latest news.T4L - week 6 term 3 - A review of important articles and background information.
What can you do about broken power ports on the blue HP Probook x360?
Tip of the Week
Live Streaming events from your schools - advice from Comms & Engagement team
Example Virtual Assembly website - Sydney Distance Ed High School
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Amanda Galvin - Director, ITD Service Operations & Security - Amanda joins us to talk about the importance of data and personal security
Denise Lofts – Principal, Ulladulla High School - A senior member of the Secondary Principals Council, Denise also plays an important representative role in supporting the department's Information Technology roadmap - Link to lesson structure resource
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Episode 13 - 17 AUGUST 2020 - SHARON & ANDREW
What's New?
Mandatory Data Breach Preparedness training - Something all staff have to complete, so please let all staff at your school know.
With Streamlined.Logon coming soon, it's a good idea to set a browser home page at your eT4L school. Here's a free one!
This isn't new, it's actually old, but it's a good introduction to our first guest today.
Tip of the Week
Have you heard of NSW Spatial Digital Twin? Me neither. So Greig will provide a demo of the data representation you can get from it and a couple of ideas about what teachers and kids could do with the data
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Sharon Cooper - Team Teacher- Georges Hall Public School - Sharon's pretty unique in how and her school work. Let's find out why!
Andrew Balzer – STEM Community Leader, stem.T4L team - In a follow-up to last week's guest, Andrew joins us to get closer to what's happening on the ground as a result of the stem.T4L project.
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Episode 12 - 10 AUGUST 2020 - Jayson & Linda
What's New?
Standardised.Logon kicks off next week - please make sure your staff are ready for it! We're pushing out messages to as many staff screens as possible, but we know some won't get the message without your help.
3:30-4:00pm is a great time for some online learning. This week, the T4L team has some great sessions on offer.
From today, EMU is no longer accessible from home and the bulk password reset has been removed
Got a DELL laptop that refuses to network boot and build? It could be the DELL USB network adapter needs a firmware flash.
Tip of the Week
If you want to teach robotics to your students but don't have sufficient (or any) actual robots, did you know you can do it virtually?
CoderZ - https://anz.gocoderz.com/ - LEGO Spike - EV3 etc Virtual programming - BlockBased and Python - Free
VEXcode VR - https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexcode-vr - VEX robot programming - BlockBased and Python - Free
Virtual Robotics ToolKit - https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com/ - LEGO, VEX virtual and real programming - $$
iRobot Robotics - https://code.irobot.com/?project=NEWPROJECT#/ - Root Robotics Virtual and real programming - Free
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Jayson Pencil - Technology Support Officer - Albion Park High School - Jayson is an original NSW DER TSO from 2009! Let's have a chat.
Linda Lazenby – Principal Education Officer, stem.T4L team - This amazing team has been kicking goals all over the state. Make sure you visit the stem.T4L Learning Library to get all the info about the kits, lesson plans and academic research as discussed!
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Episode 11 - 3 AUGUST 2020 - AIMEE & BEN
What's New?
The latest issue of news.T4L has been released - Standardised.Logon, new Mac management
Streamlined.Logon is coming soon after August 17! It's worth getting ready for as well.
Tip of the Week
Office 365 includes Immersive Reader. But do you know about Immersive Reader mobile that is part of the Office Lens app?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Aimee Phillips - Digital Classroom Officer - Foundations.T4L team - Aimee has a very unique role in ITD. Let's hear about it!
Ben Hillsley – Learning & Tech Support Officer, Aurora College - This school is quite unique in NSW DoE. We'll find out more about it and what Ben's role is all about.
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Episode 10 - 27 JULY 2020 - JOANNE & GREG
What's New?
Some of your blue HP base notebooks may have a manufacturing issue.
Standardised.Logon is coming for all school staff! We have a date and Yammer Hot Shots viewers will be the first to know!
Tip of the Week
Main Learning Displays (MLD) and Mobile Computer on Wheels (MoCoW) are becoming more common in classrooms everywhere. Greig shares some tips for sorting out niggly issues, like devices going to sleep and wirelessly projecting from a mobile device.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joanne Willott - Bankstown South Public School - Joanne is a long-time Yammer user and school ICT coordinator
Greg Sharkey – Service Relationship Manager, ITD - Greg has been providing ICT support and service to schools for 25 years and now manages a large ICT support team covering over 500 schools. Greg is also a Yammer veteran.
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Episode 9 - 29 JUNE 2020 - GREG & ERIC
What's New?
So, is there any where we can look up the list of sites a student has visited?
magazine.T4L issue 9 was released on Friday. We've called it "The Play issue". Let's look a little closer at some of the articles included.
Tip of the Week
ClickView can now be integrated into MS Teams!
What's ClickView?
How can schools get it?
What does it cost going forward from 2021?
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Greg Alchin - Lead, Disability Employment - Greg recently posted on Yammer about some new professional learning workshops on creating inclusive documents in MS Word. Let's find out more about this and the important work his team does in NSW DoE.
Eric Land – Learning Design and Development Adviser - Finding new technologies and developing robust ways to enhance the syllabus using these technologies is not a straightforward exercise. Eric and his team have multiple roles in helping teachers across NSW.
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Episode 8 - 22 JUNE 2020 - JOSHUA & EDCONNECT: LESLEY/ASHLEA
What's New?
First things first - what's going on with Yammer Email Notifications?
Issue 62 of news.T4L was released today. Let's look a little closer at some of the articles posted
Tip of the Week
MoCoWs and MLDs - so much choice, so much confusion. Find them in EDBuy by searching for the terms MLD or MoCoW
Mini PC requirements
Screen sharing options
Wireless connectivity and wireless peripherals
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Joshua Westerway - Curriculum Support Project Officer - Science 7 – 12 - Let's find out how Science and science teachers in high schools have moved with the times when it comes to applying ICTs in the classroom
EDConnect – Lesley Dobson – Service Desk Analyst – Wollongong State Office - Have you ever wondered how the EDConnect Service desk works? What actually happens when you log a ticket? EDConnect is a fascinating part of NSW DoE, but so few really understand it.
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Episode 7 - 15 JUNE 2020 - MARK GREENTREE
What's New?
How much should schools be spending on old, out of warranty devices to make them more usable or give them more life? What's worth buying and what isn't?
Tip of the Week
Getting Started with SharePoint Spaces
stem.T4L Learning Library resources for SharePoint Spaces
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
While we usually have two or even three guests on each episode, today is a special day because we've managed to secure the department's Director of Technology for Learning, who is also the R/Executive Director of Customer Experience and Service Delivery. As you can imagine, we've got a lot to talk to him about! We hope you can join us for a chat with Mark Greentree!
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Episode 6 - 1 JUNE 2020 - MITCHELL & DAVE
What's New?
Week 6 means a new issue of news.T4L - so many things are happening. Let's take a look at some of them.
COVID-19 has caused major shortages of laptops and desktops across our three Windows and Chromebook vendors and there have been lots of people raising it on Yammer.
Tip of the Week
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Our first guest is Mitchell Gibbs. He's a teacher at Gorokan Public School on the Central Coast, where there have been many amazing things happening with ICTs in the classroom for several years now.
Gorokan Public School's Home Learning Hub
Gorokan Public School's response to COVID-19
Dave Smith is the R/Manager of the Collaborations team in ITD who often jumps into Yammer when there is discussion around email and user logon accounts. Two important areas of our daily working lives. Let's have a chat!
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Episode 5 - 25 May 2020 - COREEN & NICK
What's New?
School is back! Students are back! Educational Technologies got hammered over the past two months. Have a look at some of the stats.
A month after YouTube was unblocked for all students at school, as all students return to school, the block is back on. But what does this mean for the future?
The Web Filter Check Tool has finally had an update. No we can more easily check if there are differences between Proxy and I@E schools, and log tickets to request adjustments where required.
Tip of the Week
DroidCam is a wireless webcam. It turns your mobile device into a webcam for your PC!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Our first guest is Coreen Burt. She's a Senior Software Packager in ITD and she's based on the Central Coast. Find out all about packaging for the eT4L Software Catalogue!
Not long ago, Nick Patsianas was a high school student at Erina who helped out with technology use at the school. Now he's a Technical Support Officer at Morisset High School and a long time Yammer user. Let's have a chat!
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Episode 4 - 18 May 2020 - MARTIN, JULES & MICHAEL
What's New?
Duncan Pollock shared a really handy Google Sheet that's well worth grabbing a copy of for your own use. Stu made a video that explains exactly how to use it.
There as been an update to the Additional 3rd-Party Software for Schools - with the cost covered by NSW DoE. As well as the original 4 titles we covered last week, they've added two more!:
A new base model Desktop PC is now available from HP on EdBuy. Comes with a new, faster processor and a 256GB NVME SSD instead of a spinning hard disk.
Tip of the Week
There are many utilities that allow you to add functionality to your webcam. Snap Camera is one for both Windows and Mac. But today, we're going to look at a different tool for Windows, being SplitCam and Greig will give us a demonstration on one of its handy features.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Our first guest is Martin Gray. He's the teacher librarian at Singleton High School and he's also a Specialist teacher and long-time Yammer user
Jules Merrifield is a Senior ICT Support Officer based with the Wagga Wagga field operations team. Our field support staff are so important to keep the ICT in schools functioning well. Let's find out about her role
Finally, we are joined by Michael Clipsham - he's responsible for keeping our Office 365 environment working properly across all schools and corporate offices!
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Episode 3 - 11 May 2020 - GAYLE & BERNARD
What's New?
What's this? Additional 3rd-Party Software for Schools - cost covered by NSW DoE. For more information on the services on offer:
Issue 60 of news.T4L is out now!
Tip of the Week
Have you tried Microsoft Stream to share video content with your students? MS Stream - Create Recording – Stream has a great feature with its mobile apps allowing you to create a recording. You can annotate as well as use clever tool to enhance the recording.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Let's hear from Gayle Pinn. She's the Principal at Mulwala Public School on the Victorian border - a small school doing great things with technology and staying connected via Yammer
Bernard Kingsley from Cronulla High School is very active on Yammer, often providing technical support to users across a wide range of areas. As a newer Yammer member, let's find out how Yammer works for him
Only two guests this week. Deanna can't make it, but should be with us next week.
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Episode 2 - 4 May 2020 - HUBERT, RUSSELL & JOACHIM
What's New?
What's this? YouTube is now UNBLOCKED for K-12 Students at school?
With all the online learning and meetings going on, what's the story when it comes to recording meetings?
Tip of the Week
Have you used the Yammer Desktop or Mobile apps? It's available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android!
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
Let's hear from Hubert Lam. He's at Normanhurst Boys High and they do amazing things with OneNote, Teams and Office 365
Online Lesson Reminder Form+PA+Teams post, which is a slight modification of the one demo'ed in YHS:
The workflow for OneNote + Teams + Stream (VIDEO - almost an hour long - that includes an entire recorded lesson)
Intro to Power Automate via the Microsoft Community
Russell Cairns from Jasper Road Public School is very active on Yammer, always sharing content. Let's have a chat!
The T4L Utilisation and Innovation Team's own Joachim Cohen is legendary when it comes to producing incredible PL content
Weekly Webinars - https://t4l.schools.nsw.gov.au/events/2020.html
Everyone’s an Author - https://t4l.schools.nsw.gov.au/news/2020/4/everyone-s-an-author.html
Resource Pages - https://t4l.schools.nsw.gov.au/resources.html
On Demand PL - https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/learning-from-home/teaching-at-home/learning-on-demand/technology
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Episode 1 - 27 April 2020
NSW DoE Yammer communities relating to technology (consider joining all of these groups!):
T4L News for Schools - Get the latest DoE tech news and updates - Join to get notifications of announcements made
Learning from Home - Getting teachers prepared for teaching and learning through online tools
ICT Support - If you have a technology question of any type, this is a great place to ask if you're not exactly sure of the group to use
School ICT Coordinators - A great group to join if you have the role of managing/supporting technology use at your school
TSO - Technology Support Officer - More technical discussions happen in here with an amazing group of supportive TSOs across NSW
DoE ICT Tips and Tricks - Not a place for asking questions, but a great place to post and find great tech tips for DoE staff
ICT in the Classroom - Getting the most out of devices and software in teaching and learning
Technology in Education - Looking for ideas or want to share your experiences? This is the right place.
Adobe Products Support - A dedicated group helping staff with all things Adobe - Creative Cloud, Elements, Acrobat and more
Apple iPad & MacOS - Everything Apple - a place to discuss iPad management and learning opportunities. Beginners welcome
Google G Suite - Everything about Google's G-Suite apps and Classroom in one place
Google Chromebooks - Needing help with setting up, understanding and using Chromebooks?
Microsoft Office 365 - A group to support staff with using Office 365 at school and corporate offices
MS Teams for Education - Support for staff using MS Teams for Education at school and corporate offices
What's New?
Zoom web meetings are now available and our meetings are secured. But students might have problems joining.
Microsoft Teams meetings will soon offer nine webcam views on the screen at the same time and they are working on adding more.
OneNote 2016 or OneNote for Windows 10 - Which one should you use? Microsoft has released some VERY important advice.
Tip of the Week
ZoomIt (Win) is a screen zoom and annotation tool used for presentations and recordings that include application demonstrations.
Today's Yammer Hot Spots
What are some good options for hosting videos that students can access at school and at home?
Why reinvent the wheel? Get Ronda's Learning from Home hub for your school! Or get some ideas from Gorokan Public School.
What's the current situation with SMART Notebook? What should we be using?
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