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Perth school turns on interactive whiteboards

Students at Hillside Christian College in Perth are now using a new interactive whiteboard solution won as part of a competition run by SPC and Goulburn Valley and Woolworths and supported by Panasonic Australia.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 May, 2011 12:18

Tags: schools, Perth, Panasonic, interactive whiteboards, E-learning, education
Sydney school marries Moodle with Live@edu

Sydney grammar school Redlands has opted for the Cloud-based Live@edu e-mail system over an on-premise system and integrated the open source Moodle learning management system with it in the process.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 April, 2011 12:08

Tags: schools, open source, Moodle, Microsoft Live@edu, Microsoft, live@edu, E-learning, education, cloud computing
MGM Wireless offers Cloud to schools

IT services company MGM Wireless (ASX:MWR) has begun offering its student management systems as a Cloud-based solution in an attempt to increase availability of its solution.

By James Hutchinson | 08 April, 2011 11:25

Tags: schools, MGM Wireless, cloud
School canteen gets savvy with SMS lunch orders

Payment service company mHITs has officially rolled out its school canteen SMS payment service, Easy Canteen, which allows parents to pay for their children’s lunch order by SMS text message.

By Computerworld Staff | 08 September, 2009 14:05

Tags: sms, schools, canteen
Students tweet telescope takeover

Students from three Melbourne high schools have taken control of CSIRO’s famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet, posting their results on Twitter.

By Georgina Swan | 12 August, 2009 12:38

Tags: csiro, popular science, radio telescope, schools, social networking, twitter

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NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source

A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.

By Angus Kidman | 25 January, 2010 06:03

Tags: schools, New Zealand, Microsoft, linux.conf.au, Linux, open source, education

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