Re: [LINK] Australian Government abandons CIO role

2014-05-06 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Excuse me for responding to my own posting, but I've been told about Recommendation 62 b from the National Commission of Audit "consolidating the e-Government effort through a single team under the leadership of a Chief Digital Officer;" And in the details: "The transition to e-Government woul

[LINK] Australian Government abandons CIO role

2014-05-06 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
This government's a bit of a worry. Information, information systems and information technology are all growing in importance both in their own right and as enablers for better government. So what does this lot do? Get rid of the experts who advise the government on policy in such areas and wh

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Brendan
On 05/07/2014 01:45 PM, Glen Turner wrote: > Michael wrote: >> The Lenovo netbooks supplied in NSW were bios password protected centrally >> to stop kids changing stuff and to maintain a single standard OS image. > > This "standard operating environment" approach is the exact opposite to > the "bri

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Glen Turner
Michael wrote: > The Lenovo netbooks supplied in NSW were bios password protected centrally > to stop kids changing stuff and to maintain a single standard OS image. This "standard operating environment" approach is the exact opposite to the "bring your own device" approach. The SOA is dead in u

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Was the password to stop the laptop booting up in Linux? [LINK] Linux sneaks onto NSW school netbooks http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2009-April/082708.html Marghanita Michael wrote: > The Lenovo netbooks supplied in NSW were bios password protected centrally > to stop kids changing stu

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Michael
On 7 May 2014 09:37, Jan Whitaker wrote: > At 09:11 AM 7/05/2014, Tom Worthington you wrote: > >They wanted to turn the old Netbooks into Chromebooks > >(which sounds a reasonable idea to me), but have yet to track down the > >code needed to unlock the BIOS to change the OS. > > I don't understan

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-05-06 Thread Jim Birch
Yep. It seems almost trivial to upgrade the memory in a the voice and data recorders to current memory capabilities. Likewise, battery technology has moved along. However, as I said " It seems unlikely that any retrofit to would be justified in terms of opportunity costs for improving flight saf

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Whitaker
At 09:34 AM 7/05/2014, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: >Stephen, > >I am not sure that Apps are the way to go. Online courses need to be >open - available across >platforms. I would not have thought compatibility would be a problem >in this day and age! >Ofcourse teaching about tools is a different iss

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Whitaker
At 09:11 AM 7/05/2014, Tom Worthington you wrote: >They wanted to turn the old Netbooks into Chromebooks >(which sounds a reasonable idea to me), but have yet to track down the >code needed to unlock the BIOS to change the OS. I don't understand that. Do Chromebooks use a specific bios setting in

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Tom, Teachers googling for Teaching support Materials seems to be common - though it might not be as much reinventing the wheel as we think. Richer schools do employ Technology Managers. By the way, it isn't only IT - use of PAs is terrible too. There is definitely a need for online education.

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Tom Worthington
On 06/05/14 09:46, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > As usual, what I heard of this discussion, focussed on the device rather than > the human > capability of schools/teachers to support the stuff ... I spent last Friday and Saturday at University of Canberra, with school teachers and university acade

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-05-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > It seems unlikely that any retrofit to would be justified in terms of > opportunity costs for improving flight safety. > http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/6/5686572/easa-black-box-upgrade-proposal --- 5 inShare The notoriously cost-sensitive a

Re: [LINK] Bring your Own Device

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Loosley
Marghanita writes, > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:46:10 > From: marghan...@ramin.com.au > Subject: [LINK] Bring your Own Device > > As usual, what I heard of this discussion, focussed on the device > rather than the human capability of schools/teachers to support > the stuff .. > http://www.abc