INFORMATION  &  COMMUNICATION  TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

What is the Ultranet ?

The Ultranet is an intuitive student - centered electronic learning environment that supports high quality learning and teaching, connects students, teachers and parents and enables efficient knowledge transfer.
Key functions include:
- The Ultranet brings together a range of key functions that support teaching, learning and administration.
- All information related to students is centralised and will remain with the student as the student moves through the education system.
- Ultranet functionality will benefit a range of users; schools, parents, students, DEECD and Regions.

The Ultranet will be operational in schools BY mid 2010. Tenders have been finalized at the moment. We look forward to this exciting ICT initiative.

Here is a look at a multi media online resource that you could use with staff and students. It is easy to use and you can get some pretty good results  http://animoto.com/play/3hprwbOyimolbe4nuBIUkQ

Looking to the future at SEPS

We had a visit from the Southern Region Ultranet Team to inform us about this exciting technological initiative that is soon coming to all Victorian Government schools.
The Ultranet is an intuitive student-centered electronic learning environment that supports high quality learning and teaching. Not only will it provide an online space to manage the running of the school,
it will also provide an environment where teachers, students and parents can collaborate, share ideas and curriculum content as well as provide space to record progress and report to parents.
The Ultranet Team are looking for pilot schools to trial this project in 2008, and SEPS is hoping to be a candidate for this. With our 4 star rating from our last ICT audit, as well as the enthusiasm of SEPS
staff for everything ICT, we are confident we will be considered.

On a similar note, Mrs Walton and Ms Parker attended a conference on “21st Century Visions” presented by The Australian Council for Educational Leadership. Some powerful and inspirational speakers
gave us a glimpse of the future of education and how the needs of our children are changing as technological and global issues impact on our society.
Children in schools today are likely to be working in jobs that have not yet been created! As a result, we need to teach skills that are based around problem solving, creative thinking, technology and that
have a community focus. We have to create concerned citizens who are going to have the imagination and creativity to come up with solutions to problems that our world is currently facing and
problems which we have not yet even encountered!
The implications for our schools and our teaching methods is enormous and we look forward to the challenge of moving SEPS into the 21st Century. Further discussions and research into our future will be held.
For some interesting statistics and a glimpse of what we are facing, look at Karl Fisch’s video on the internet entitled “Shift Happens”, a look at globalization and its impact on the 21st century (American concept but still interesting!). There are several versions available.