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Feedback
Many schools using EduWeb have
discovered that it offers numerous benefits for student
learning as well as staff productivity. Take a look at what they have to say below. If
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aimed at teachers just like you who are wanting to use technology to
make a difference in the classroom.
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Congratulations on Eduweb 2008. It does
address a very important issue in the DET portal log in. What you
have done is great. I had asked our Sydney West techos could it be
done and they said “no way” so all the power to you. In a role of
technology RFF, EduWeb is vitally important to me. I feed the school
work folders each Thursday afternoon and the lessons revolve around
that each week. I look forward to showing other colleagues at our
school/ district/ region how eduweb can effectively be used. I
always thought that an EduWeb support group in Sydney west would be
the way to go but in talking to one of the TA’s at our SLITIS
conference this week he assured me that a support group was already
happening and to talk to you. If not, I am quite prepared to start
one at our school even just as a file sharing group who discuss the
what it is used for and how in their school. Terry Dauw
- Plumpton Public School
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One of my best mates is Greg Fitzgerald ( next door neighbour on
campus and fellow resident townee in Wagga) and it was he who sold
the idea of Eduweb to me . You may now realise my age and understand
that I am genuine in wanting teachers to know how this outstanding
product can help them in their daily technology use in the
classroom.
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Thank you Stu for developing such an
innovative resource and I am always thrilled to share your creation
with other teachers who haven't used EduWeb before. It is inspiring
to be able to incorporate elements of the Quality Teaching model
into ICT with children so readily using Eduweb as a tool. Well done!
Our school has been using Eduweb since 2002 and we have gone from
strength to strength. Our principal is particularly happy when
showing prospective parents around the school, how the research
performed in the library is utilised in the computer lab / classroom
to be showcased on the student's EduWeb pages across the school. The
older buddy classes love assisting the Kindy's redesign their own
pages too. Some staff are taking their teacher pages on board to
communicate to their students (a slower process, however a starting
point). The other real bonus is the digital portfolios I burn to CD
for each child who leaves the school, i.e., mainly Year 6 students.
They love having a record of their work. Tammy Teppo -
Forestville Public School
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EduWeb has taken off now. I have done several
sessions with staff showing them how to make templates and
discussing possibilities for their classes and everyone is now very
enthusiastic. I have to tell you one success story: We have a child
who has had continuing problems with literacy. He was reluctant to
write anything and what he did do was very basic. He volunteered to
be one of my journalists for EduWeb...much to our surprise. He is
now our star reporter. He has attended all special events at the
school over the last two terms (Music parade, an Anzac service and
the pre-schoolers Mother's Day lunch etc) and written pieces of work
for our EduWeb. Some of his previous teachers have seen his work and
have congratulated him in the playground for his efforts, which has
boosted him so much he is now asking me for more events to cover,
and I have been sending him to other classes to report on special
activities. No one can believe it is the same child....Thanks Stu,
Eduweb has done it again. Liz Crocos - Birkdale South
State School (Queensland)
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We have the whole school on eduweb and I have
been busy training kids and teachers to use front page. An
interesting thing that I have noticed is the little kids pick it up
and learn to edit a page as easily as the older kids. A Reading
Recovery teacher was blown away today as she watched a struggling
Year One student do things on the computer she wouldn't dream of
doing herself. We plan to have every teacher construct their
own page during Term 3, T &D Pupil free day. This term all staff
meetings have been held in the library so that we can incorporate a
technology session into every staff meeting. You know I am an EduWeb
devotee and the kids are absolutely ecstatic about it. When
they get the opportunity to have a go you can't drag them away.
The only issue is making time and getting staff motivated.
Anyway you can't say we are not trying . The new library computers
are going to make a huge difference. Barbara Shaffer -
Canterbury South Public School
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I don't normally submit
feedback to my own feedback page, but lately I have been talking to a few schools who were using EduWeb since at least 2002 to see how their use and application of EduWeb has changed as the new features have been incorporated. One of them has continued to concentrate on the student pages pretty much exclusively, but the one thing they found was that it does actually get easier each year to get started with topics and get the students going again. Even training up the new grades that get on board is getting easier. It's all about getting the staff on-side first. The students are easy to motivate.
Another school started with individual logon accounts for each student last year after using shared accounts in 2002 and 2003. They said they'd never go back. It was "pain-free".
One school put a lot of effort into using the extra school intranet stuff that was introduced in EduWeb 2004, particularly the staff side of things. They saw great benefit in using the Staff Pages to coax more staff to use computers by "forcing" them to check for staff news updates, playground rosters and so on because they were no longer in printed form.
A high school is "really looking forward" to implementing the
subject (high school) side of EduWeb 2005. They will be running EduWeb in English, History, Language, Art and Science exclusively for years 7 and 8 only, with a maximum of
only four topic pages for each (one rich task in each subject per term). There is also a "My Personal Choice" section that the students can use to do intranet sites that cover "All About Me", "My Favourite Hobby", "My Favourite Music" and "My Future". A truly fabulous idea, and the best thing is, by starting small, it's not so overwhelming for everyone involved. They are even scheduling these classes into the computer labs and hoping to pickup wireless notebooks on the computer rollout,
then order a base station and trolley in order to setup a portable computer lab which can be booked and wheeled around from classroom to classroom.
Finally, just after Christmas, I received an email from a parent(!) from a school in regional NSW. Their year 5 child had brought home a CD containing their EduWeb website. He could not believe that an 11 year old could produce such a range of work using various computer applications and questioned me whether it was likely that the teacher actually produced the work. When I told him that it would be very unlikely that the teacher would have done this for 30 students or more and that I have seen masses of student work from kids younger than his, he said he was immediately going out to buy a computer!
If you have any stories you'd like to share, it might just help those who are starting out with EduWeb for the first time, or those who would like to do something but aren't sure of what can be done. Feel free to send them through!
Stu Hasic - Sydney
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I have been using EduWeb
for 4 years now and have finally found a way to get the kids
motivated, I am a visual person and like using photos. The photo
pages become the motivator for writing. This week I have asked for
news reporters from each class. Everyone wants to be one because
they get to use the camera!! 2 boys (year 4) who have been trouble
makers in the past came to me at lunch time this week after their
computer lesson and asked when they could begin!!! These are boys
who HATE school. They then went to the playground without the camera
and became sports reporters on the lunch game of soccer. They backed
up on the second day to write a second report so I relented and let
them take pictures to illustrate the game. After lunch they sat for
an hour trying to type the report into the photo album page before
school finished. (I uploaded the photos). With a little help from me
to edit they were discussing the spelling of words and punctuation
necessary for names as they worked. When it was finished they were
as proud as punch and were so glad that they could now show it to
their classroom teacher in their own room. The news section of
EduWeb has not been as motivating for the students. They don't like
a lot of text to read but they love looking at the pictures and
colours. Hope this motivates other schools to have a try. Linda
Babic - Hilltop Road Public School
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At Sherwood Ridge PS at
Kellyville we are a brand new school, only opening our doors this
year. We are running Eduweb on a Windows XP system/network.
The main benefits for us are:
1. We use Eduweb for EVERYTHING..... staff memos, canteen list,
sporting updates. We all fill in and print off our calendar. We
hardly use the whiteboards in the admin for anything, as it all goes
on EduWeb. I am in charge of technology and find it incredibly easy
to administer
2. Because it's sssssoooo simple to use, almost every class in our
school uses it as part of their teaching/learning day. 95% of kids
have created their own website (including Kindergarten!). I have
used it with my Year 6 to do work samples of many things. I've
attached outcomes and plan on burning all my class a CD at the end
of the year with their EduWeb pages and Powerpoint slide shows as a
meaningful and interactive part of their yearly report (I dare not
say "portfolio"!!!). I must admit that because we are so new,
we have to crawl before we win marathons, so we have only used the
very basics and haven't even explored some of its capabilities. But
next year, I'll be doing I.T. as RFF and will expand its use then.
JUST A SENSATIONAL PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY THAT FORMS THE CORE OF OUR
SCHOOL. I think we'd grind to a halt without it!! WELL DONE!!
Margot Stuckey - Sherwood Ridge Public School
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We
are in the middle of implementing EduWeb at Auburn. At the moment, the
staff pages are up and running fully, but I haven't addressed any of
the personal student pages yet - that's a whole training program for
staff and students. Initial comments and reactions are that
staff and students are blown away. They think it's cool and brings the
school community together. I am promoting it across the school (not
so) subtly (it automatically opens when staff log on!!!) and I have
targeted key people across the school to give them specific areas of
responsibility. All are excited by the responsibility and take on the
role with great enthusiasm and pride. eg, the photos page, the
library page, the news page, the SRC and canteen pages, the memorandum
pages. Staff (in the know about it) are already planning to
present EduWeb to the next School Community meeting. Without
anything being published yet, staff can see the educational benefits
of "story writing". We plan to automatically upload the school news
page to our inTERnet site (eventually). I have also expanded
EduWeb to include a "forms and templates" page for admin type stuff, a
technology page (for manuals), taskforce, help, news, etc, and a
"green piece" page - which is our weekly staff news bulletin.
While some staff are not happy about the news bulletin not being
printed and distributed anymore, they can see the environmental and
instantaneous benefits of having this stuff online. Most staff are
happy about this. I am really pushing the environmentally friendly
aspects of having so much stuff online. The taskforce module is
very cool, particularly the emailing - I have already emailed help
desk. They must be impressed too. Our school is currently
revising all our policies, so this is a great time to establish a
uniform template and upload them to the policies page. The principal
is very happy with this idea, along with the whole package. In fact,
she has often told me that she has a look around the site and is more
and more impressed with its potential on each viewing. My only
grief is that there is not enough time in the school day to "play"
with it and refine it. Steve Wilkins - Auburn Girls High
School
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We are a
'normal' school that had a look at Eduweb last year and decided to run
with it this year. At our place Eduweb is being used from Kinder up to
Year 6 at varying levels depending on the confidence of the teacher.
(A yr 2 teacher has made a simple slide show of the Olympic games and
added voice for the less able readers - dropped quizzes into each kids
folder. Some teachers have developed 'forms' after being shown the
'all about me' page from your website at our stage planning days).
We see it as a means if a more immediate way of integrating ICT into
the everyday work of students via tasks that are able to provide
varied levels that are appropriate to student needs, while at the same
time being aligned to syllabus outcomes. It's all about kids being in
a learning environment that is engaging as well as challenging for
them. The kids are just amazed and delighted at what they have
been given access to as a means of expressing themselves (importing
pictures etc,) and at our 3 way conferences that we use as our half
yearly reporting mechanism the parents were most impressed at the
skills children were acquiring in the technology area. We are
looking to provide digital portfolios at some stage. It's also a
means of encouraging/expecting and supporting our staff to move ahead
in the area of technology in order to provide the best opportunities
for the kids in today's world. Jane Gee - Barnier Public
School
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As a user for the past 3
years in a primary school environment I can only say thank you. It
is the best FREE form of digital school portfolios that is child
oriented. The simplicity of use and scope of creativity it unleashes
allows this to be a truly great educational experience. We can
finally get away from drill and practise games on the internet and
software packages to using the computer as the tool for further
learning and employment. The links to digital photographs and
and web cam experiences is fantastic. No longer are recounts boring
words, but they come alive with colour, sound, animation and
photographs. We learn about the structure of where all our files are
being stored and how to retrieve them. Teachers are not so
fast to embrace the technology because of the unreliability of the
network. Viruses, breakdowns and other problems make them still
insist on paper copies. When the system is down if everything is on
file work grinds to a halt and we are at the mercy of IT personnel
and their availability to come and sort out the mess. This has
occurred three times this year but luckily it was only for a short
time and we have missed our computers! We don't realise how much we
use them each day. Even the principal is getting used to using the
staff pages to look up the playground roster and RFF timetables.
Now he is adding in the policies as they are being updated. The photo link of 2004 is a godsend. We have used up all 6 galleries twice over this term. Children are enjoying seeing their own classrooms and eagerly
line up to write the text message which accompanies the photos. Other classes enjoy reading the information printed and can't wait for it to be their turn to show their classroom to the rest of the school. Cleanup Australia Day. Walk Safely To School, International Peace Day, Olympic Swimming Trials at Homebush, Swimming Carnival at School and
zone trial athletes have all featured this term. I just wish there were more galleries because so much happens during the year and it doesn't leave enough time for all students to see the photos and news before it is time to change them again. The calendar update to the internet web page is another great feature that we are making use of and saving time is what we all need. Thanks again for a great free product that encourages children to read and write from kindergarten to year 6.
Linda Babic - Hilltop Road Primary School
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Where do
I begin? EduWeb is a fantastic tool to motivate not only the
kids but teachers (me!) as well. As Teacher/librarian of
Gosford East Public School, I see every child in the school.
Sometimes it's a bit difficult to come up with activities that are
not the usual run-of-the-mill type of thing. The student pages
section of EduWeb provides the perfect medium. I can create online
activities for the children (or use existing templates) which fit in
with the units they are studying in class and download them onto
their topics pages. In this manner, the children's work is all
related and there is meaning in their daily tasks. The kids love
completing activities, editing their pages to reflect their
individuality and showing others the work they have completed.
The library section has enabled me to link the Premier's Reading
Challenge lists to our EduWeb homepage. The children in Years 3 - 6
have accessed this site on a daily basis throughout the year.
Reading in our school has increased as a result. I had the
dubious honour of introducing EduWeb during a Staff Development Day
earlier this year. The "Wow!" factor was incredible. Everyone
thought there was at least one part (if not lots) which could be of
benefit. The staff links and general links provide a quick ready
reference. Our policies are all available, our news page is
maintained by children and photos are eagerly awaited after each
special event. There is so much more we could do if there was a time
allocation provided, not only for the daily maintenance problems we
each experience, but also for actual teaching with this fantastic
tool. Having said that, Stu's support is incredible. Emails are
answered immediately (I don't know how he does it) and nothing seems
to be too much trouble. Thank you Stu, for your tireless
efforts on behalf of our children and teachers. We couldn't do it
without you. Veronica Hockings - Gosford East Public School
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I am the
Teacher Librarian at Cessnock P.S. and as such teach every child in
the school. All classes K-6, including IM & ED, do two HSIE/Science
based research modules per term. These topics complement or
supplement their class work and are done both as part of their
Library lessons with me and followed up in their computer lessons.
Not only are the kids editing imaginatively using Frontpage but also
the relevant graphics they are inserting into their work via Google
image searches are helping to improve our whole school in the area
of visual literacy. They are encouraged to communicate with me in
the student evaluation box at the end of their module before I grade
it; and students who have been unmotivated academically up till this
point are busting their boiler to get an A+ on their research work!
Kids are now into the routine of slipping straight into Powerpoint
slide show preparation on their favourite research topic if they
finish a research module early. They are extremely proud when these
are linked to their websites. The other facilities such as the
Calendar, News, Library, Photos etc have become a daily 'must see'
for all students, and, most importantly, staff are starting to catch
on - dragged along by their students. Well done, mate!
Michael Kermode - Cessnock Public School
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Thanks, Stu, for this excellent tool. I work in two primary schools - one has been using EduWeb for 3 years and
one where we are just introducing it next term. I think it is brilliant. The staff use the teachers' links, the children are always using the kids' links. Our SRC uses their link, the library has gproxy linked up, the kids love the educational website of the week and I enjoy displaying the student website of the week. All in all the whole intranet works so well.
Barbara Ryan
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First, thankyou for a wonderful package. Login to EduWeb has made the process of opening and saving really
consistent - and that is great. We have only been going for half a term and Year 1 are already independent with logging in. I only had to help 2 children in a class, some others no doubt needed help which was provided by their classmates. I have made individual instructions for the Kinders, with instructions to open a file on the back. After four weekly lessons many Kinder children
log themselves in also. The big time saver for me during lessons is that previously I used to spend a good part of the lesson helping each child save their new file
with the correct name in the correct place. Now I can spend all that extra time helping them learn! The other big bonus is publishing their work. Now it is so much easier to do. We had an Intranet .... that took literally weeks of my (holiday) time each year setting up all those links for over 400 students. In previous years, there never was enough time to publish the work done and most webpages just had lots of clipart and little else. I look forward to making use of all the additional features of EduWeb. Thankyou.
Julie Frankham - Raymond Terrace PS
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I just wanted to say that, so far,
I have just scratched the surface of EduWeb and I'm blown away by
the extent, comprehensiveness and professionalism of what I've found
so far. There are boundless ideas and support for teachers and the
concepts and skills developed in the children will be, no doubt,
extensive. In short, congratulations on a great job. And
thanks. Chris Wallace - Wyrallah Road PS
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The whole school's been swept up in
EduWeb fever - the students are even asking if they can do it at
lunch time! (and this is a trying, PSFP school with some pretty
disadvantaged children, most of whom have no access to a computer
outside school). The staff are also taking it on board which is
great to see. Even the reluctant ones are making the effort as they
can see the benefits and are being carried away with the general
enthusiasm. (I think they're also worried the students will
eventually learn more than they will & they're not too pleased
about being left behind!). We've
created a user on the network called News Reporter which has a
password. This is for the News Reporters (of which there are 3) so
they can do the editing of submitted articles (with me overseeing of
course!). There's one well researched article up there already
(complete with student quotes!) and I'm sure there are plenty more
on the way now I've announced this aspect of EduWeb. Justine
Abell - Irrawang PS
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The question of resourcing for
technology is a difficult one. The research is showing it is not
what computers one has but rather how one uses them. Many schools
have abundant technology, but do not have an effective use of it. I
believe schools need to start from their curriculum and tailor their
technology purchasing to reflect their teaching. The big problem is
that there is no real direction on how computers should be
integrated into children's learning. Some classes and teachers do it
exceptionally well, but there are few examples of whole schools
doing it well. Rather it relies on the enthusiasm of a pocket
of teachers. Therefore there is no uniformity from class to class or
grade to grade (without even thinking about school to school - hence
the problems experienced by High Schools). Educational
authorities need to look seriously at teacher knowledge and
curriculum development integrating technology; i.e. making some
components compulsory. Otherwise the great investment in
hardware will be wasted except for those students lucky enough to
get one of the interested teachers. Programs like EduWeb
are essential for developing cross school integration of technology.
It provides a skeleton to hang the meat on (so to speak). The skills
that can be learnt from a program or structure such as this would
more than meet the needs of every primary student and give them
sufficient skills for High School. If every school used this as a
basis, then uniform web skills, editing, and then add say PowerPoint
and some basic video editing then we would really see some excellent
work being done. Teachers would only have to master Word, FrontPage
(optional) and PowerPoint. Software costs and associated licenses
would disappear except for the instances where a teacher wanted to
pursue a specific slant. Educational authorities should
produce CDs with units of work with web links and blank worksheets
etc which use the mentioned programs and the hard work is done for
teachers who can confidently go back to working with their class to
produce quality outcomes and product. David Harris,
Gwandalan PS
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The use of technology to enhance student learning has long been a
priority at Leura Public School. During 2002, 60 students from
Stage 2 and Stage 3 were involved in a project which aimed to
produce a web-based digital portfolio. The trial of digital
portfolios has proven to be an exciting development in our
curriculum not only allowing accomplishments to be demonstrated but
also enabling students to take increased responsibility for the work
they have done. The EduWeb was used as the framework for the
digital portfolios which are stored on the school's Intranet and are
linked to the KidMap assessment and reporting database.
Student work is publicly displayed within the school promoting
ownership and enabling staff to readily utilise portfolios for
assessment purposes. The project was evaluated by formally
consulting all stakeholders. Feedback has overwhelmingly
indicated that the project is worthwhile and should be continued and
expanded in 2003. The project, while providing a means to
enhance and develop technology skills in students, has also been
shown to improve students' confidence, the quality of their work and
their engagement with learning tasks. Wayne Newman,
Leura Public School
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Thank you for
a fantastic product. We began using EduWeb last year and
unfortunately I couldn't make it to your seminar, but I have seen
the results of Producer and am impressed. We have just
purchased a digital video camera with our year 6 fundraisers and I
am looking forward to trying out new ideas in 2003. Our Year 6
published their Yearbook on EduWeb for the first time this year and
the results were spectacular. Thank you again for making web
publishing so easy. Even our kindergarten have used the web pages
with help from their year 6 peers. Keep up the good work and I
hope you are rewarded for all your hard effort in making IT more
accessible to us baby boomer teachers. Linda Babic,
Hilltop Road Primary School
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This is the
second year I've been using EduWeb as our student-centred intranet.
It's fantastic. We've added and added to it to meet our school
needs, yet have maintained the core element of a place for students
to publish. This year all work done by Year 5 & 6 is published on
the intranet, and not printed. We've gone with the option to create
individual folders for all students and they use these as their
storage area for all work saved. These folders are accessed through
the "My Work Folder" shortcut. Published work has taken the form of
slide shows, word documents and FrontPage pages. The students from
year 2 up have been using the intranet and finding great delight in
publishing their work in this way. Unfortunately our school is
not classroom networked so only what's done with me in the computer
lab (1 hour a week) is included. Wait till we're networked!!!
The staff have embraced its use and I've created home pages for all
staff, many with linked pages. These are accessed mainly through a
staff photo and hot spots for the links.
- Brian
Marsland, Kings Park Public School
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Congratulations
and thanks for EduWeb! Our district Computer Skills Assessment
Consultant has introduced it to four of our senior classes here at
Gosford Public School as a trial run, with outstanding success. All
kids have been able to successfully create an individualised web
page about themselves, despite their previous experience (or lack
of) with web design. The kids with advanced skills are particularly
motivated, although some of the results are hard on the eyes! The
teachers involved in the trial also have a range of abilities, but
all are very impressed with the ease and flexibility of your
program. I am currently working with a couple of the teachers to
produce intranet units for the different stages - yet another thing
that blew my mind away with the possibilities it opens up. Our ESL
group has also had a page created for them - an important way of
disseminating knowledge about other cultures to a wider audience.
Needless to say, we are having a ball with your program. Thanks for
your generosity in sharing your ideas and skills with us!
Sharon Thornton, Gosford Public School
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The Intranet
is a great hit with the kids - so easy for them to use, they are
very busy personalising their pages and linking lots of work!
I love it, the kids love it - our boss loves it! Thanks for your
generosity. Pru Thomas, Dural Public School
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I've
just downloaded and been working with your intranet. Mate, it's
great, and obviously has had a fair bit of work put into it! My kids
(Year 6) have been working on their pages for 2 days now and are
wrapped - they are coming up with some great stuff. We are
using Win 98 in the computer lab (30 computers). Dave Wall,
Wagga Public School
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At BHPS we
have been using EduWeb this year for our Digital Portfolio project.
EduWeb has allowed each student to almost instantly have their own
website and create pages and links to all sorts of work. Students
have added images, sound files, video clips and linked to PowerPoint
presentations they have made, all in only 12 weeks of the program. I
have been amazed at their enthusiasm and willingness to try new
things. Many times I have been asked, "Is it possible
to...". Perhaps however the greatest advantage in using EduWeb
is that it so easily promotes co-operative learning and
peer-tutoring. Everyone can be an expert - I now have expert
graphics consultants, sound people and background specialists! The
kids love it and the teachers are learning heaps too! - Joann
Sayers, Bellevue Hill Public School
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Thank you for
a very handy tool. Just what I needed. Completely pain free, simple
installation. Dropped it into MS Personal Webserver, pasted some
java script for the webcam we use for security, and viola! Saved me
a lot of time. We went from no intranet to one in twenty minutes.
School now has a great intranet, that everyone (staff, students,
parents) are interested in. - Mark, Mullumbimby Public School
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Congrats on a great piece of
programming - EduWeb has made web page building so accessible for
the kids at VEPS - they are having an absolute ball using it! - Jenny
James, Villawood East Public School
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I
thought I would just drop a quick line and let you know I am still
plugging away with EduWeb - quite successfully I might add - at our
school. The kids are having a lot of fun too. It's taking a
while but it is rewarding to see all their work in one place and the
hyperlink skills of linking, having an implemented, meaningful
application for each student. They just LOVE sharing their work with
each other...and parents at interviews are coming up soon, too -
that will be great feedback. Here's a big step for me - I
presented "what's happening in technology at Leumeah
PS" at the Campbelltown Technology day last week and did a
big half hour on "EduWeb"- at the District TA's request
and encouragement - and I was very pleased to hear that in the
evaluation 90% of the participants - principals, high schools &
CCs in primary school said on their evaluation that they "got
the idea!" and they thought it was great - so that made me feel
better and made a lot more people think about it. I might add
I had never presented anything to a group before - especially that
kind of range so I felt quite pleased that: a) my ibook did
all the right things at the right time and b) that my
Powerpoint presentation, was different to everyone elses! and c) that
eduweb has made the process so easy that there's no excuse not to
have an intranet now as all the hard work - thanks to you - has all
been done. - Annette Allen,
Leumeah
Public School
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I have just had a
visit from our District Technology Adviser who explained and loaded
the program you wrote that enables all students to setup their own
web page. From an inexperienced computer person, let me say
how impressed I am and how excited I feel about the opportunity you
have provided my students. We are very close to being fully
networked and I can't wait to see the results the students produce.
On behalf of all the students, staff and parents, thank you. - Diana
Pine, East Hills Public School
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On
Friday I went to Tambar Springs armed with the slide show on EduWeb,
the flyer and the set information off your web site. There were four
Principals from small PP6 and PP5 schools there. I showed them
EduWeb and did a quick splurge on what it does and they were
impressed. You see the day was based upon setting up an Student
Electronic Portfolio System within their respective schools. They
could see the great benefits of setting up EduWeb. We then went to a
PC and downloaded the Eduweb setup disk from your website and went
through setting up an EduWeb on their small but fast network of PC
computers. Everything worked well and we had soon established the
EduWeb on a Library PC ready for access across the network. One of
the teachers began taking some photos of the kids and placing them
onto their intranet web page. She really ran with the idea and
cottoned on very quickly. It was a great day and I thoroughly
enjoyed presenting and installing EduWeb with these Principals and
teachers. It is a great program - well done. I should also tell you
that one of the things our local TA showed computer coordinators
from all over our area the previous Wednesday was your EduWeb. I
just happened to have a copy of our Intranet on my laptop ready to
show the teachers at Tambar on Friday so I was able to demonstrate
just what the kids can do once they are set loose with EduWeb. - Tony
Johnston, Boggabri Public School
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Stu, thanks for the
inservice on EduWeb last week and for the advice this morning.
Now have EduWeb running on the fileserver and have set it up for one
very excited teacher. - Wayne Courtney, Henry Fulton Public
School
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Great
work on EduWeb - saved me hours of work rebuilding our Intranet last
year after server crash. I used EduWeb last year for school Intranet
and burned off a copy of our Intranet for Year 6 at end of year, so
that they had an electronic portfolio of work completed. Thanks. - Brian
Barron, Cooranbong Public School
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We
started with your EduWeb last year and quite a few teachers became
really enthusiastic. We have written it into our PSFP Literacy
program for this year especially for Years 3-6 but others in K-2 are
going to use it too. Several teachers are going to use it as a
profile for the student and will insert open ended assessment tasks
but mostly it's used for publishing. I haven't tried it out yet but
I assume its possible to link/insert a Powerpoint demonstration to a
student page as this is my teaching focus with Yrs 5&6 next
term. The kids love motion clips and choose those over plain
pictures every time. - Alexandra Sutton, Bankstown Public
School
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Heathcote
Public School is now converted to the magic of EduWeb and the AP can
throw away his training wheels and show the kids the power of the
student-driven intranet. I just recently ran EduWeb at Gymea
Bay PS to generate the pages for Year 2 only (currently only 3-6
have their own web pages and folders etc that, as you know, I
created manually). They then worked with their 'buddies' from senior
classes to insert images, add text and background colours etc. The
kids know I'm leaving at the end of the year (off to Woronora PS as
Principal) and the lower primary have started to ask will they have
to start a new 'home' page. Of course, they don't want to and won't
have to. Each primary student will always save to their folder right
up until they leave Gymea Bay. Another thing that the kids
have started doing, and I've insisted they all do it, is when they
save their home page they also save it again as a copy with initials
eg copygf. It's so easy on a pc to accidentally wipe another kids
home page if you are not careful, but if they have a copy then it
can be easily recovered without going to a backup - maybe a
suggestion for your notes. Thanks again Stu for making the whole
process user-friendly. You will have saved me and the CC a lot of
time when I get to Woronora PS in 2002.
- Greg
Fitzgerald, Gymea Bay Public School
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I
think that the EduWeb you have developed is the most exciting
student centred application I have come across and I am very keen to
implement it. Other teachers here share my opinion. - Stu
White, Leura Public School
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We
enjoyed using your EduWeb late last year at our school.
And
as we became familiar with it and editing the
standard
pages many children achieved successful
pages.
This year we have taken another step further
and
replicated each page and named them according to
the
OASIS data with the intention of making them
available
to students at the end of the year.
This
year we have included a staff photo with hotspots
linked
directly to the teachers page for each class
(as
well as setting up additional pages for staff
without
classes). This assists teachers to develop
their
pages so that they’re not left behind the
students!
Fortunately, all staff have been allocated
staff
development time to have a go at editing their
own
pages.
Our
school is running PCs in a lab and a Novell
server.
I like your
idea
of having a work subfolder within their personal EduWeb folder.
Thanks too for the excellent notes that made the installation
and set up so easy. - Brian
Marsland, Kings Park Public School
Please
send through any comments you may have! Stu's EduWeb is designed
and developed by Stuart Hasic -
stu_hasic@yahoo.com.
It is available free of charge for public schools in the state
of New South Wales in Australia only. Other schools
interested in Stu's EduWeb should contact the developer
directly. (c) 2001-2010 by Stuart Hasic |