Hello and how are you getting on
David Leeming
Hello,
This is just a quick hello from me.
Please let me know how you are getting on, and feel free to ask any questions.
If there is interest we can hold a regular Skype session. You’d only need to gather around one computer at your end (each school).
Might be a good way to discuss ideas, technical issues, resources and so on!
Looking forwards to seeing some articles for your websites. For instance, you could ask students to write something about a topic they are studying, or you could collaboratively write something, or ask senior students to submit articles (you could help them choose topics)
Also sports and school news.
Allardyce would be great to see an article about the Marine Protected Area. Perhaps you could invite the couple that look after it, to come up to the school, interview them about their project and type it up as an article (or transcript). You could even write a summary and record the interview in audio and upload it. Great for a senior team of students!
Another topic : How has the Internet changed/helped/improved school life, teaching, learning, administration, teacher development? Are there any risks, and dangers?
The more you post on the website, the more “alive” it becomes and it will become a very valuable resource for attracting support, demonstrating your initiative (so that donors will grant more support etc). Also it should also demonstrate your ICT skills – which the teaching standards will increasingly refer to.
Best wishes,
David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link
P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
+677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h)
David Leeming
Hi Frank
Remember to “reply all” if you want the [SI-SchoolNet] emails to copy to everyone for a good shared discussion.
Good stuff. Best way to make your work transparent is to (a) write up as articles for the website. I assure you, it is all great interest and a record online will greatly help you demonstrate evidence to donors for new computers, expansion, etc and also (b) inform Ellison in short reports. He will be grateful.
The Internet signal is suddenly raised to 7-8dB at both sites (SDTC and Allardyce, also Eucalyptus) . This is across all the VSAT sites I operate and others. Thus, we have hopefully seen a corrective action by PACTEL which will greatly reduce the effect of rain. (But even then a big downpour will at times drop you out for short periods). Please keep me informed.
Internet speed is affected by usage. Your connection is shared by whomever is online go into User Manager and check current sessions and you’ll see the MBs they have downloaded). If all your computers have “automatic updates” and antivirus updates activated, which is all OK, at times they will all be downloading them simultaneously. That will slow the connection. Therefore, it is good practice to make sure the computers are allowed to update themselves when you don’t need to have good speed. When you need good speed, you have to manage users – if need be ask people to log off.
The speed of the connection also varies as it is 256/128 kbps but technically that is a maximum level. It is actually shared between a few customers of PACTEL. They do a good job and it is often up there, but at times when all PACTEl users are heavily using the connections the overall speed will drop too. This is how the Internet works. It is a shared resource. Think of it like pipes of water. When everyone has the tap on it slows down. If you pay for a huge pipe much of the time most will not be used so it is a waste of money. So it is a compromise. 256/128 guaranteed bandwidth costs at least 5 times more.
David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link
P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
+677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h)
From: frank poura [mailto:fap...@yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, 4 May 2013 2:11 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Subject: Re: [SI-schoolnet] Hello and how are you getting on
hello dav,
good to hear from u again.
so far things are going good. we have started with our fence for the disc.
teachers are now started to get familiar with using internet and only the students who haven't got any acess yet due to not enough school lap tops for our sessions. we are still working on the best way to go about it and that is to hook up with the teachers who have their private laptops for teaching the students as of next week.
interms of internet some times it don't really work well even though it is not raining but that might be heavy rain at Hawaii as you have told us. during heavy rain it usually breeze out as normal and then catch up again.
other wise it really help us alot with our academic side.
thanks and bye
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