ICT Smoothies
• Episode 5 – 20 Sept 2019
• Friday 3:15 – 3:30 During Term
• Repeats available on vBrick
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Design Ideas from PowerPoint
ePass Roles
iCentre Adobe in Education Summit – Livestream Invite
Typing Tutors – Fundamental ICT Skill
Education Podcasts
PowerPoint Layout Designer
1. Ask for design ideas any time by choosing Design > Design Ideas on the
ribbon.
2. The first time you try out PowerPoint Designer, it may ask your permission
to get design ideas for you. If you want to use Designer, select Turn on.
3. Once you've turned on "connected experiences," PowerPoint
automatically shows you design ideas when you're creating your slides.
Over time PowerPoint learns from your experience using design ideas and
shows you design ideas at the appropriate time.
4. Scroll through the suggestions in the Design Ideas pane on the right side
of the window.
5. Click to select the design you want, or else close the window. If you select
one of the ideas, your slide is changed accordingly.
6. You can also select another idea from the pane or go back to your original
slide design: Press Ctrl+Z to undo a design change you've just selected.
ePass Roles
The ePass Role Structure for Schools Table outlines
the Approver, Drive access and E-mail distribution
groups for each role. Approver and drive access is for
your own School / Business Unit. Email distribution
groups are based on School / Role or Responsibility.
Changes to accounts include:
• Moving to another School/Business Unit
• Changing Role
• Changing Password/Unlocking account
• Additional Access
• Enable/Disable
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http://icentre.ntschools.net/Knowledge/Pages/ePass%20Role%20Structure%20for%20Schools.aspx
iCentre
Centralised location for all information
pertaining to the Departments ICT
environment comprised of a series of hubs.
Today we will be focussing on the five hubs of:
• Home
• Knowledge
• Status,
• Helpdesk, and
• Major Problems
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Home Hub
• Default Page for the iCentre
• Designed to bring key information from all other
hubs together
• Provides the following functionality:
• Talking Technology Blog
• Latest Knowledge Articles
• Site Statistics based on the users Active Directory
location
• Summary infrastructure status for your location
• Help Desk Contact Details
• One button report a problem
• Search facility
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Knowledge Hub
• Centralised store of all ICT related information
for the Department
• Provide users with an interface to access SelfHelp / Knowledge Base Articles with step by step
instructions on how to do common tasks
• Hub provides access to the following resources:
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Calendar detailing upcoming events
Change Management / Forward Schedule of Change
ICTC Training Manual
Procedures Manual
Professional Development
Technical Architecture
School Visits
Shared Documents
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Status Hub
• Designed to give users a snapshot of the environment and
allow them to identify if there are any issues currently in the
environment
• This hub breaks the Departments ICT Environment up into
three key areas:
• Status of Core Infrastructure
• Status of Business Applications
• Status of Branch Infrastructure
• Where does the data come from?
• Operations Manager 2012 R2 was recently implemented for DoE
• Views were created to display information into the three required
areas
• Intelligence Centre dynamically pulls this information in and
displays in the Intelligence Centre
• Data is currently updated on a 5 minute interval
• Site Status Information is based on the OU that a user’s account is
contained within Active Directory
• Active Directory information is updated once every 24 hours
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Helpdesk Hub
• A link to the HP Service
Manager Self-Service Page
• Provides the following
functionality:
• Ability for Staff to raise jobs and
track their status
• Ability for ICTC’s to raise and
manage jobs assigned to them
• Ability for ICTC’s to escalate
tickets to the Service Desk
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Major Problems Hub
• Details active outages and provides
updates on status of investigation
• Provides information about known
problems in the environment and
provides updates on the status of
investigation or details of any
workaround which may be available
• Publishes Post Major Incident Reports
(PMIR’s) for any previous outages
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Security Structure
Hub Name
Corporate and School Staff
Information
Services
ICTC’s
Service
Centre Staff
Knowledge Hub
Status Hub
Helpdesk Hub
These roles have access to these hubs
Major Problems Hub
• Role based permissions are used with AD Delegation groups to control access to the
Intelligence Centre
• New users automatically inherit the correct level of access
• End users only see hubs they have access to
• End users only see articles / content they have access to
• Search results only display items that users have access to
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Lock in Australian Livestream
Adobe Australia - 2019 APAC Adobe in Education Summit Livestream 1,2 October
On the mornings of October 1 & 2, tune into
the live broadcast of the Adobe Education
Summit from Sydney.
Find out more via –
http://bit.ly/adobe-edu-summit19
and contribute to the Q&A via #CreateEdu on
Twitter.
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Collaborating in Adobe Spark
• Adobe Spark is Free…
• Now students can collaborate on the same file…
• But there are some caveats…
• Inviting other users to your Spark projects is simple:
• To invite people to your project, click the three dots in the upper right corner of your
project card on spark.adobe.com
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• Accepting invites is just as easy:
• Can I collaborate on mobile? – Not yet – just from laptop/desktop in
windows
• Can we edit at the same time? – Not yet… it is a tag team effort… tell the
other person when you are done
• Can a recipient publish? – only the owner can publish or update a link
• Can we collaborate on branded projects? – Yes
More Information
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Typing Tutors
• Takes cognitive load off students for NAPLAN online
• Easy to implement
• Weekly accuracy and speed tests
• Free – Dance Mat from BBC (Free sign up)
• Online only
• Free - TIPP10 is a free 10-finger touch typing tutor (Free sign up)
• Available online or as a download
• Part of the ICT Fundamental Skill Set
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Educational podcasts to add to your playlist
The podcast ecosystem is complex, rich and ever-changing – and that’s a good thing – but it can also be overwhelming and
difficult to know where to start. The following podcasts are all powerful resources for Principals and educators. Add them to
your playlist and get ready to learn and be inspired.
• The Educhange Podcast is presented by Australian education
entrepreneurs Dave Faulkner and Aaron Tait, This high rating
podcast is for the “doers in schools”.
• QUT Teacher Podcast is a seven-part interview series hosted by
journalist Madonna King. The series is presented by the Queensland
University of Technology, where some of you may well have studied.
You can listen to a short trailer via the link.
• Teacher Magazine covers education and leadership from every
angle. Topics include ‘Building a School Reading Culture’ and ‘Being
a New School Leader’ (episode 19), ‘Teacher’ presents all the
content and analysis you love to read, in handy audio form.
• Educate is produced by the much-lauded National Public Radio (NPR).
It describes itself as presenting stories about education, opportunity
and how people learn. While the program has a distinctly Americancentric focus, ‘Educate’ looks at international research, and topics such
as ‘Students on the Move: Keeping uprooted kids in school’ are
relevant to school leaders worldwide.
• The Teachers’ Education Review is a fortnightly podcast with a
focus on educational issues in Australia and around the world. TER
is hosted by a NSW secondary school teacher and a NSW primary
school Assistant Principal, so you can be confident your hosts share
your lived experience ‘on the ground’ in a school. The podcast
‘explores the implications of educational policies, teaching
practices, and international events that impact on teaching and
learning in Australian classrooms.’
• Talking Teaching comes out of the University of Melbourne’s
Graduate School of Teaching. Tune in to hear interviews and
conversation about effective classroom practice and the latest in
educational thinking with leaders in the sector.
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• Truth for Teachers is a US podcast hosted by teacher Angela Watson
and is the pep talk you didn’t realise you needed. Topics like ‘5
Ridiculously Unhelpful Things I’ve said to students’ and ‘Overcoming
mom/dad guilt when you spend more time with other people’s kids’
are interspersed with a message about being kind to yourself and
encouraging you to keep on keeping on.
• EdTech Situation Room is a podcast looking at the intersection of
technology news and educational analysis. It is hosted by Wesley Fryer
who was also responsible for the now (sadly) defunct Moving at the
Speed of Creativity. Old episodes of which are still available online,
along with some very detailed show notes.
• Getting Smart can be found on SoundCloud and the bio notes describe
the podcast as covering topics in K-12, Higher Education and lifelong
learning. Episodes cover developments in research, technology,
entrepreneurs and classroom methods. 
Open Mike
• Problems?
• Outstanding Jobs?
• Topics You’d like
• How to?
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Next Smoothy
Learnshifting is my blog
with ICT relevant
knowledge nuggets
• 20 September 2019
Recordings of
smoothies and related
materials can be found
here
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Adobe Education
Exchange has lots of
free learning resources
Research Reference Links
Adobe APAC conference Livestream
Adobe Leadership Conference
iCentre
eDash – existing training content (will be updated)
Free Typing Tutor – Dance Mat
More tools from BBC
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