Job Responsibilities - Network Manager V ICT Co-Ordinator

[davyboi]

any kind of mp3s are illegal on a network arnt they? because the mp3s can be accessed by other people on that network that didnt buy them, so in affect having mp3s on a network is like a intrernal version of limewire, witch is illegal, sharing copywrighted material

 

and that about eating at computers, tell the co-ordinator that they can eat of the computers if he/she goes round after every session and cleans the equipment.

 

and giving them unfiltered internet access, thats just a can of worms we have all at some point typed a url wrong or clicked on the wrong link through google and ended up on a site with a bird with her legs open lol, witch usually comes with about 100 popups with the same sort of material, imagine if this happend while the teacher was showing a class something on a whiteboard?

[Lee_K_81]

any kind of mp3s are illegal on a network arnt they? because the mp3s can be accessed by other people on that network that didnt buy them, so in affect having mp3s on a network is like a intrernal version of limewire, witch is illegal, sharing copywrighted material

 

Not all would be illegal. If for example the pupils created their own composition / played their own instruments (i.e. in music) some audio sw has capability to save into mp3.

 

and giving them unfiltered internet access, thats just a can of worms we have all at some point typed a url wrong or clicked on the wrong link through google and ended up on a site with a bird with her legs open lol, witch usually comes with about 100 popups with the same sort of material, imagine if this happend while the teacher was showing a class something on a whiteboard?

 

Once saw in a primary school they were doing the food chain and wanted images for their work. cue google image searches for:

 

blue tits, thrush, worms, black bird, etc. All good.

 

Lettuce on the other hand..... never seen such an interesting place to plant one.

[davyboi]

 

Once saw in a primary school they were doing the food chain and wanted images for their work. cue google image searches for:

 

blue tits, thrush, worms, black bird, etc. All good.

 

Lettuce on the other hand..... never seen such an interesting place to plant one.

 

lol its allways the words youd least expect isnt it ive had a few, cant remeber them off the top of my head, i think one was dolls, another was rat man i think,

the best part about it was the 1st time it happened the ict coordinator put a job in the book asking if we could contact google and ask them to remove the pornographic images from the search! ill just give them a call now shall i? haha

[seanmh]

Most ICT Co-ordinators at schools I've worked at haven't got a clue.

 

E.g. Come blustering into the office because some teacher has planned their whole lesson around a website and the website is down - "what can we do about it?"

 

Start spluttering etc when you say you want to buy a new switch or server - "but we've already got thoses and curriuclum will suffer as we can't buy more PCs to make our classrooms look good or to brag to other schools about how many computers we have" - regardless of the fact that the server/switch is either outmoded or failing.

 

A program doesn't have the functionality that they we're expecting - can you fix it?

 

I could go on and on!

 

It makes sense for schools to have someone technically minded in charge of ICT tech support and development and leave the ICT Co-ordinator to sort out the curriculum - thankfully that's the situation I am in.