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| Thread ID: 117071 | 2011-04-01 03:16:00 | Best ISP for a school here in NZ? | bayushihigure (16311) | Press F1 |
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| 1191133 | 2011-04-01 21:58:00 | Not true. Any school, home user, or business is free to go and get something like Skype and start video conferencing. Besides, all the times I've seen schools use it, it was largely a gimmick that was used once by a teacher and then never again, due to it predominantly offering no real-world benefits. Still, that's not to say it couldn't, but in the dozen-odd I've seen, it was that way. You're right about services such as Email, will the school offer students their own email address? Will they use OWA? Or a free / open-source alternative? If money is no object, then a nice Fibre connection *sounds* ideal, but you'd save yourself 75% or so by going with a good HSNS connection, unless you specifically *need* more than 10m/bit of bandwidth (From what you've told me so far, I don't know if you would, unless there's some bandwidth intense activities you've not mentioned that you're going to be doing). You can also use the likes of OpenDNS to do content filtering. It's free, easy... There's *always* a way around any content filtering though so don't get too hung up on it. Just put in something basic, trust your students, and discipline them if they break the rules. Easy. Food for thought ;) I wouldn't trust students. It took about 6 months for my old admin to ban google searches for youtube or facebook or flash game proxies. Also for the love of god, password protect your server and its files. Our old admin was taught that lesson by a student (playing nicely in a naughty way by linuxing to delete the intranet splash page and replacing it with a smiley face and then a paint penis, was hilarious) At the same time, however, I ran into filtering issues on things like forums and mp3 downloads. Even when they were completely legit, I got hit by the blanket filtering. Maybe just disable flash on all the clients and save yourself the bandwidth that will inevitably be taken up by the year 9 through 11 students trying to play games? |
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| 1191134 | 2011-04-02 01:08:00 | Yeah some people just *should not* be allowed to admin systems... Each school / workplace is going to be unique. If they post their requirements, then we can offer some more specific advice ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1191135 | 2011-04-02 05:26:00 | I'm not a fan of schoolzone either. I look after a local primary school that is with Telecom Schoolzone & a small country school that is with Watchdog. Watchdog is far easier to work with, but nobody wants the headaches of switching from Schoolzone to Watchdog. I haven't managed to convince any of my schools to use Google Apps Education Edition yet. Schoolzone webmail is horrible, but the school can't afford to run exchange & doesn't want to use Google Apps. |
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