Charles Newton October 2007 Ulearn07 Case study - The Loop

Ulearn07 Charles NewtonOctober 2007

Case study - The Loop


The Digital World – anyone, anytime,

anywhere connectivity • IP addresses -- to all sorts of things.

Computers, cameras, fridges..... your dog• Networks, intranets, extranets, MAN's WAN's• Converging devices - cell phones, small

computers, laptops. Ipods, PDA’s• Web-based and Web hosted – banking, SMS’s• Multimedia – resource demanding• Broadband -- big fat pipes

…and increasing mobility…..


Welcome to Web 2

• Myspace • YouTube• Flickr• Del.icio.us tagging• Blogging and RSS feeds• Facebook and Bebo• Wikis• Twitter……


Web 2 - the right to

participate!!


All the world’s information for you

• Web Fountain• Google digital books• Alexandria Project• MIT - open courseware• Yale posting video course lectures online.• KAREN-type networks

And access to virtual places….. and ‘real’ people…………


• “When the power of the network surpasses the power of your computer - then the whole game shifts..”

• Processing power, applications, workspaces and storage are all being provided off-site – you just have to get there


“The world will only need five computers” IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson

– maybe we laughed too soon!

• Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually.

• "The world needs only five computers," Papadopoulos said on his blog. He then listed seven--Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce.com, and what he called the Great Computer of China - Stephen Shankland CNET News.com

Google data centres

http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/the_world_needs_only_five


Educational Use of Information Technologies since World War 2

40’s 50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s 2000+

print

still images

sound

moving images

telecommunication

typewriter“banda”“gestetner”blackboardflip chart

calculatorstencil makers

photocopier

whiteboard

computer and printerscanner

35mm slidesOHP

tape recorderstereo

computer

16mm movievideo

telephonemodemfax

computerCD ROM

computer

Multimedia

slide-tape

-as per Derek Wenmoth


The 21ST Student:• Has lived their whole life in a digital world,

regards change as a constant and has never known a time when computers and cellphones were not part of ordinary every-day life

• Assumes ability to access information and communicate with others regardless of time or geographical location

• To be stimulated – multimedia

• No longer just consumers – but demanding to participate – welcome to Web 2


Fifty years hence we may well conclude that there was no “crisis of American education” in the closing years of the twentieth century – there was only growing incongruence between the way twentieth-century schools taught and the way late twentieth-century children learned.

Peter F. Atlantic Monthly, October 1999 Boston MA p50 – as reported by Julia Atkins


Trends in Educationin one place in any place

at same time at any time

from one to many from any to any

from one direction from many directions

in one way in many ways

Through one medium via multimedia

Passive interactive

isolated connected

“Schools as we know them now are being redefined”



Digital Classrooms

• Low tech to high tech• Labs to suites to classrooms to individuals

(PDA’s)• J-in-T ICT rich classrooms –laptops,

datashows, smartboards, cameras, websites• Lots of PD – and help finding resources • Access to the world

“Go live” – and go “off site” - “One click access to the world”


Where is “NayNet” heading?

“Go live” – and go “offsite”

• Converging digital technologies in the classroom (Labs to suites to classrooms)

• NayNet joining the Loop’s virtual network of networks - connectivity

• Teachers and technicians working regionally – schools sharing servers and services

• Teachers accessing (internal/external) rather than creating resources

• NayNet ‘scaffolding’ access to resources, services, content and communities.




The Emperor's new clothes conundrum!


Remember – you will want capacity to run a number of programmes – many simultaneously!


Broadband uncorks the bottle!

• FiberSpdnglish.exe




Bringing on remote edge schools by (Probe) wireless


Successfully trialing point-to-point radio



Fat, fast and free!!.....

• Be open access• Be non-proprietary• Be accommodating

….”fat pipes not skinny straws”




“Two click access to the world …regardless of school or location”


Establishing the core of the Loop


Getting across the ditch to the WIX


WIX accessible resources


Bringing on our edge schools by fibre and wireless


Getting international internet and email


Building our virtual server farm


Redundancy to internet


Reaching the APE in Auckland – and new services


Anticipating the Nelson NIX


Anticipating the Advanced research network


Expanded into Marlborough

Teaming up with other schools and loops



16 Digital services• Certainity of Internet Access• Offsite Backup and Recovery • Intranet – website and LMS• IP Security Camera’s• Multimedia Live – Video Conferencing,

Skype, desktop conferencing, VoIP,

streaming…• Multimedia archives - Digital Resources,

Clickview• Inter-school and community radio

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A partnership between Nayland College and Nelson College for Girls.

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The virtual server is fast – very fast.

• How fast? On idle Nayland is moving a DVD every 10 seconds but on turbo it will move a DVD every second … for every school.

• How much can it hold? The one virtual server is already holding all the information in two schools yet has enough space for yet another 30 schools to join.

• But how much space is that? About 30 000 DVD’s worth.


The machine has spare parts already installed and running so the server can self repair

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• High quality switching• Fat and Fast• Professionally managed• Shared capital and operating cost• Once established – easily extended.

Future proofed.


Way beyond the capacity of a single school……

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The Loop makes it possible for schools to share server facilities

• Frees up in-school ICT staff – shifts them closer to the teaching and learning.

• Takes huge pressure off ICT Managers• Nayland has reduced 20 onsite servers down to just 5! – • Makes life simpler and more predictable for budgeting.


Just makes life easier!!


Joining the ‘network of networks’…


• NayNet to

• the Loop to other loops

• the NMi MUSH to

• KAREN to

• the World


Networking with networks

Looks like a MUSH to me!


Inspired (in part) by the Loop, there are now several other loops and aggregations coming on stream. We are all working together in a loose federation called the ‘Superloop’. Hi Derek. This group is working hard to find solutions to the key issues around interoperability and so is laying the basis for a proposed National Education Network.


LOOP STRENGTHS• Providing true quality broadband • Utilising fibre, Probe and p2p wireless• Quality of service – Vlans• Layer 3 networking • “Virtual” centralised management• Resolving access to educational resources and

services• Networking with networks…..

“Seeking synergies not replication, cooperation not competition”


Looking at the big picture – the Loop is a perfect example of many of the guiding principles of wikinomics[1] (openness, peering, sharing and acting globally) – using mass collaboration/peer production to achieve a successful outcome. The Loop users are ‘prosumers’ (proactive consumers) shaping ‘their’ product. That’s the way the world is heading – and we’re right there! Amazing!!

‘Open source attitude’

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5065262745272895737

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5065262745272895737


The development of the Loop is a perfect example of ‘new knowledge’[1] in action. There were no models to follow, so we assembled the most amazingly eclectic group of expertise who (largely voluntarily) and over many, many discussions have been ‘nutted’ it all out. My thanks to you all.


Moral Purpose• Moral purpose is social responsibility to

others and the environment. School leaders with moral purpose seek to make a difference in the lives of students. They are concerned about closing the gap. They act with intention of making a positive difference in their own schools as well as improving the environment in other local schools. Sustained improvement of schools is not possible unless the whole system is moving forward.


Our thanks to these passionate people• Network Tasman Ltd – Wayne Mackey• TorqueIP – Phil Earl• B2B Solutions - Steve Webb• United Gooder – Neil Farnell • MOE - Murray Brown and Douglas Harre• NMIT – Adri Noordover • Nelson ISP consultant – Neil Fenemore • PC Systems – Barry Benbow• Computer Networx – Danny Hill• CityLink – Neil De Witt and Jonny Martin• Geoff Scrimgeour and the Loop technical group

…… and the growing band of people who believe in what we are doing…..

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Charles Newton October 2007 Ulearn07 Case study - The Loop