The Ultranet is a secure Internet portal for students, parents and teachers at State Schools in Victoria. This is a brief summary capturing some of the buzz on social networks about the Ultranet during May 2012 .
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#tommyleeisnotimpressed with #springst plans to wind down the #Ultranet http://t.co/hspz2Kuj Delete the scoop?
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The inauspicious launch in August 2010 is often pointed to by those familiar with the Ultranet as being indicative of the issues that the platform had experienced throughout its development. Whilst ICT in education throughout Victoria has undeniably experienced pockets of innovative development over the past 20 years – FUSE, ideasLAB - for the most part this has never been able to develop the momentum to become mainstream or accepted among the wider teacher community. At its inception, the Ultranet represented the best opportunity for schools to tap into the ground-swell of technology acceptance that was coursing through society during the early/mid 2000′s. Somewhere along the journey, the Ultranet failed to live up to this lofty and ambitious goal. 
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However, the software project, called "Ultranet", was "...poorly planned and implemented". The system is 80 per cent over budget, late, has a low uptake rate and limited functionality. It would seem to me that the Victorian ... Delete the scoop?
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The Victorian Auditor General has recommended that the State’s Education Department think seriously about decommissioning its Delete the scoop?
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The Victorian Government will seek advice on whether the calamitous $180 million schools' intranet can be salvaged, after an audit found it failed to deliver the promised benefits and has been shunned by schools.
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Ultranet Learning tasks do work and are better linked to the Victorian curriculum than any alternative. Delete the scoop?
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Over the past year, there have been louder voices within Government and the media discussing the ‘uncertain’ future of the Ultranet in Victorian schools.
This will come as no surprise to those of us that have ignored the bad press, over-looked the obvious limitations and put hours of effort into using the Ultranet as a springboard to reform pedagogy within ourselves and within our schools. Delete the scoop?
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Home » Activity » Ultranet Parent Information. As a parent, the Ultranet will give you more detailed and timely access to information so you can monitor and support your child's learning. Information about your child and their ... Delete the scoop?
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NEC SCOOPS TWO AIIA iAWARDS FOR SCHOOL ANALYTICS PLATFORM ...CFO WorldUltranet, NEC's modular collaboration, analytics and business intelligence platform for the global education market, has won the Victorian Australian Information Industry Association... Delete the scoop?
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The Ultranet is a secure Internet portal for students, parents and teachers at State Schools in Victoria. This is a brief summary capturing some of the buzz on social networks about the Ultranet during May 2012 .
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Today has been a hive of industry in the Senior Campus computer labs, with 26 visitors coming to be trained as Student Lead Users in the Ultranet. We had groups from our two 7 – 10 campuses,... Delete the scoop?
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a web based learning community located within the Ultranet; regular online forums for students on specific learning topics provided through Blackboard Collaborate; in school support support provided by teachers or parents ... Delete the scoop?
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This video takes you step-by-step through the process of generating the code needed to create a background using an image. Before you start you need to have ... Delete the scoop?
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"ULTRANET, the Victorian Education Department’s online everything system, was doomed to fail. It provides a perfect case study how large organisations engage with digital technology: because they do not trust it, they will pay anything … so long as it works. And, the irony: it invariably fails! And was this system a failure? Mr Pearson, the Victorian auditor, couldn’t have been clearer. He reported that six years after its announcement as a government priority, the Ultranet had not delivered any of the main objectives, was significantly late and over budget and had limited functions compared with what was promised." Delete the scoop?
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THE launch party for a bungled education system overhaul has cost taxpayers $1.3 million, it has emerged. Delete the scoop?
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Disclaimer: I have many friends who have previously worked on the Ultranet and some continue to do so. Having said that, I have never had any vested interest in the Ultranet. In all of the t... Delete the scoop?
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The Ultranet might have its critics but it has transformed the way teachers report to parents at Nichols Point Primary School outside of Mildura. Delete the scoop?
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Known as “Ultranet,” the six-year-old Oracle based project has cost taxpayers at least an estimated $162 million but still cannot provide educators or students with the functionality or outcomes it was supposed to deliver. Delete the scoop?
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Many schools refusing to use Victoria's troubled online education network. I was interviewed for this story - it doesn't include the positive comments I made about using Learning Tasks. Delete the scoop?
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Another facet of the Ultranet is that it can help strengthen parent-student-teacher relationships by making possible continuous communication between the three.
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As a graduate techer I am yet to be 'burned' by the Ultranet and am open to giving it a go, however as I write this I feel I am beginning to feel the heat of an impending burn, mostly at this stage due to the frustration of a steep ... Delete the scoop?
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Thankyou to all the parents and 5/6 students who contributed to our first Ultranet Student Led Conference. The student's confidence and parent enthusiasm was fantastic. Thankyou from the 5/6 teachers.. Delete the scoop?
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Screenr - @rgesthuizen: Screencast that explains how to add an submission to the #Ultranet Learning task module. Delete the scoop?
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