Yammer hot spots

What's New with Stu

• The week 3 issue of news.T4L has been released. Let's take a deep dive into it.

• T4L Rollout deliveries ETAs update.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Bronwyn Hatzis is the School Admin Manager (SAM) at East Hills Girls Technology High School in south-west Sydney

  • she's the first SAM we've ever chatted with on Hot Spots!

• Cathy Brown is STEM specialist at Double Bay Public School in Sydney's east.

  • Check out Cathy's YouTube channel

  • Here's Cathy's Virtual Teacher page where she shares great STEM resources

  • Some great resources that Cathy uses with her students to assist with video in the classroom

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What's New with Stu

• Windows 10 21H2 is now available for F12 build only Recommendation for remaining v1909s at your school:

  • F12-rebuild student devices

  • Allow staff devices to In-Place Upgrade wherever possible - so ALERT YOUR STAFF that have 1909 devices that this will be enabled at the end of May, right after NAPLAN testing window closes.

• Are you using Apple Macs for NAPLAN testing? There is a new Lock Down Browser app that must be installed!

• Did your school get any new interactive Main Learning Displays? The T4L team have put together a page full of resources to help teachers get up to speed with their specific model !

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Windows Nearby Sharing works on T4L devices in schools!

  • How to use it on Windows 10

  • How to use it on Windows 11

  • A video tutorial on Nearby Sharing

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Joshua Bowman a Year 4 Teacher at Eastwood Public School in northern Sydney - but he's been doing so much more:

  • Joshua's Yammer post on exporting 3D models from Minecraft into PowerPoint

  • Mr Bowman Makes - Joshua's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBowmanMakes/videos

  • Stage 3 Science & Technology: https://youtu.be/T6mOb5jtJfs

  • Stage 3 Geography: https://youtu.be/QnX_yzPNVXQ

• Robert Eaton is the instructional leader Deputy Principal at Wee Waa High School in north-west NSW.

  • He's been putting together some practical and effecting PowerAutomate and PowerApps scripts to automate tasks at the school and he'll demonstrate some today.

  • Have you joined Yammer's PowerApps Playground community?

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What's New with Stu

• System outages reminders:

  • Quarterly ITD maintenance window

  • Config Manager upgrade

• Windows 10 21H2 - both via F12-build and via In-Place Upgrade from existing v1909 will be available from early next week. Recommendation: For remaining v1909s at your school:

  • F12-rebuild student devices

  • Allow staff devices to In-Place Upgrade wherever possible - so ALERT YOUR STAFF that have 1909 devices.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• We know that Chrome is about to be re-set as the department's default browser from April 7, but don't forget about the fantastic extra features that Microsoft Edge offers!

  • Collections - Microsoft Edge

  • Vertical Tabs - Microsoft Edge

  • Copy and Paste - Microsoft Edge Tips

  • Capture and MarkUp - Microsoft Edge Tips

  • Clipboard History - Clipboard in Windows (microsoft.com)

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Alice Leung is the Head Teacher Secondary Studies at Concord High School - but you'll regularly find her online on Yammer as well as:

  • tweeting away about education on Twitter

  • or education-focussed writing articles for her blog

• Andrew Nordstrom is the Head Teacher Secondary Studies at Menindee Central School in far-west NSW.

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What's New with Stu

• NAPLAN trial testing uncovered some issues, mainly with Chromebooks that won't load the LDB

  • It's more than likely an available space issue and Powerwashing is the best option.

• What's happening with the old Connected Classrooms in schools? Are the Tandberg/Polycom VCs still used?

  • Recent post on Yammer

• Serious security issue for Google Chrome browser - Windows and Mac

  • Emergency update to version 99.0.4844.84 - will be automatically pushed out, but for any personal devices, it's worth checking for updates.

  • The update is also needed for Microsoft Edge, so check for updates on that too.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• How to 3D Print colours using permanent markers!

  • 3D Printing Custom Colors with Markers (YouTube)

  • Print your own 3 or 6 marker holder (STL files)

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Alisa Stephens is the ICT Coordinator at Braidwood Central School where she also teaches and manages all things tech. And she's a Yammer regular too!

• Ben Krisher is a teacher at Terrigal Public School, and for a change away from tech, we'll be chatting about Yammer's Photography community and the amazing shots that Ben has been sharing there lately.

  • Join the Yammer Photography community

  • Take a look through Ben's posts

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What's New with Stu

• It's Week 9, so yet another news.T4L was released this morning. Let's take a deeper dive.

• The T4L team released a new site today to help schools ensure their devices are ready for NAPLAN online testing

Greig's Hot Tip!

• The Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams has had some nice improvements. One of them is sharing your physical whiteboard and printed documents using your camera.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Aarti Malik is the Principal Project Manager and Kate Courtney is the Communications Lead for the project that will see Google Chrome become the default browser. But there's more to it than just that. Let's have a chat about it.

• Simon Gethin is the Principal Business Analyst in the Rural Access Gap program He's been working on various online services and a new one was launched last week - The Universal Resources Hub. Let's take a look at it with Simon.

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What's New with Stu

• The Windows 21H2 pilot went live a few days ago in about 20 schools. We are hoping to release 21H2 to all schools during the April school holidays

• The new Universal Resources Hub was release on Friday! Make sure you share the link with your staff.

• Microsoft has released Visio for the web and it's now also built into MS Teams!

• Did you miss the T4L Digital Drive-Thru we held last week? You can watch the recording here.

• Start next Tuesday morning with a brand new skill! You can now create and edit video with Canva!

  • Join us for some handy PL

Greig's Hot Tip!

• OneNote Live captions are here!

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Jodie Hartwig - Teacher, ICT Coordinator at The School of the Air in Broken Hill

  • School website - https://schoolair-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

• Darren Hope - ICT Team Leader in the Digital Field Services team at Dubbo office.

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What's New with Stu

• T4L Rollout deliveries - the ETA doc has had an update

• Windows 10 v21H2 is about to be piloted by numerous schools. Following a successful trial, it will be made available as F12 rebuild and in-place upgrades - both for 1909 and 20H2 builds.

• Photoshop and Premiere Elements are NOT included in the current Adobe enterprise agreement and existing installations must be removed before May.

  • As first announced in news.T4L at the end of term 3.

  • Alternatives? Try Canva and WeVideo or Adobe Premiere Rush (deployable from UDM)

Greig's Hot Tip!

• PowerPoint Recording - Recording your slides or the screen to an MP4 video has been improved extensively!

• Screen Recording with Stream is another option

  • And coming soon is PowerPoint Cameo - sneak peek

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Rebecca Toltz - Teacher Librarian, Level 2 Google Educator and Canva Champion at Bourke Street Public School

  • Want to be a Certified Google Educator?

  • Take a look at Bourke Street Public School's new build

  • Check out the department's Information Fluency Framework

• Yvette Poshoglian and Joachim Cohen - The dynamic duo from the T4L team

  • Register now to join tomorrow's T4L Digital Drive-Thru

  • Get the latest copy of T4L Kids magazine

  • Get the latest copy of magazine.T4L

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What's New with Stu

• T4L Rollout ordering closed on Friday! - What did schools order?

• Google Delegated Admin is now LIVE

Greig's Hot Take!

• It's Hour of Code week and Greg will share his review of the various events on offer

  • Hour of Code: Join the largest learning event in history, December 6-12, 2021

  • stem.T4L Resource board - Hour of Code 2021

  • magazine.T4L – Hour of Code edition

  • T4L.kids - T4L Kids – Hour of Code edition

  • T4L Events for Hour of Code

  • Hour of Code Webinar Recordings

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Greg Mawson - External ICT Support for four schools, and Google Delegated Admin

• Ian Tobitt - D.P. and Head Teacher, Teaching and Learning at Sydney Distance Education High School

  • Virtual Exhibition of HSC Major Projects

  • SDEHS Showcase - Video production, podcasting, virtual events and VR tours

  • The school uses MS Sway for its newsletters

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What's New with Stu

• The last issue of news.T4L for 2021 was published today - let's take a closer look

• Privacy and the use of web and cloud-based services with students - a very interesting and important topic

Greig's Hot Take!

• Looking ahead at 3D Printing!

  • What's happening with the FlashForge Inventor 2?

  • What's happening with the other models in the FlashForge consumer range?

  • What about high-end 3D printers?

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• All about next week's global Hour of Code events!

  • Sandy Phillips - Digital Classroom Adviser in the stem.T4L team

  • Yvette Poshoglian - T4L Utilisation and Innovations team

  • Magazine.T4L is all about supporting you in the classroom with resources to get your students coding, prototyping and designing in no time

  • T4L Kids is about app and game design, from prototyping to production especially for Stages 3-4

  • Check the magazines and join us for one of 9 live T4L webinars and incursions in Weeks 9 and 10 and explore one of 44 dedicated Hour of Code resources (or more)

  • Register your own official school event – there are currently 250+ school events registered!

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What's New with Stu

• The 2021-22 T4L Rollout was launched today and generated a bit of discussion

• Google Blogger will no longer be available to students K-12 from the end of the year

• As the year draws to a close, staff will leave your school. Are they still members of your MS Teams or Google Shared Drives?

Greig's Hot Take!

• What happened to the MS Whiteboard desktop app?

• Make a cookie cutter!

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Kent Hughes - Program Architect - Technology 4 Learning

• Joachim Cohen - School Technology Innovation Lead, T4L team

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What's New with Stu

• All-day Wednesday and Thursday morning outage for two weeks in a row. What's going on?

• REMINDER - If you have students leaving a NSW Public School, they need to be aware of their access to school services

• Who wants a sneak peek at the T4L Rollout Devices Catalogue? You'll need to watch the show!

Greig's Hot Take!

• Real-world robots:

  • Automated Grocery Shopping in the UK (YouTube link)

  • Grocery shopping US style (YouTube link)

  • Inside Amazon's Smart Warehouse (YouTube link)

  • Five Amazing Warehouse Robots (YouTube link)

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• David Charters - TAS eacher and Computer Coordinator at Parramatta High School

• Michael Teague - ICT Coordinator and Stage 3 teacher at Grays Point Public School

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What's New with Stu

• news.T4L issue 79 was released - let's take a closer look

• The launch of the process to approve YouTube videos for K-10 students

  • The authorisation (via MMA/MSA) of certain staff at the school to be YouTube video APPROVERS - to whitelist videos for restricted users

• A significant wireless connection outage affected most schools on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

• Adobe Captivate and Presenter licences for staff

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Online collaborative whiteboard shootout:

  • What's coming for Microsoft Whiteboard?

    • T4L Resources for MS Whiteboard

  • Google Jamboard

    • T4L Resources for Jamboard

  • Have you had a look at Miro? It's free for educators

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Chris Harris - STEAM teacher at Fairfiled Heights Public School

• Elizabeth Jugovac - ICT Coordinator and RFF teacher at Villawood North Public School

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What's New with Stu

• The New Staff Portal was released

  • Integrating the Staff Essentials with Inside the Department (DoE Intranet)

  • Manage School Essentials is now live, with the ability to push shortcuts to students

  • Feedback is coming in

  • Join the NSW DoE Portals group to share any feedback

• What's going on with Google Chrome Extensions and Add-Ons for Students?

Greig's Hot Tip!

• What's happening with Lego WeDo 2.0?

  • Yammer post

  • Lego Spike Essentials

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Arthur Zigas - Senior Pathways Officer

• Brett Kent - STEM Community Leader and Adobe Education Specialist

  • Apply to join the Adobe Champions program

  • Upcoming T4L Adobe PL Events: Adobe Spark | Adobe TeachMeets - session 1 & session 2

  • Check out the Adobe Education Exchange

  • And don't forget! So many Adobe self-paced learning courses at LinkedIn Learning!

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What's New with Stu

• School's back and YouTube Restricted Mode has been turned on for ALL STAFF and students.

  • Here's a quick video to explain it

• There's a new Staff Portal launching at the end of the week!

• NSW DoE Cloud Migration strategy

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Main Learning Display options are still causing confusion for schools

  • Feature article in magazine.T4L

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Jeffery Reid - School Counsellor (inner-west Sydney)

• Larissa Mullan - Change Analyst in the Cloud Migration team

  • see link above for more on the Cloud Migration strategy

  • Advice on moving your personal U: drive to Microsoft OneDrive

  • Advice on moving your personal U: drive to Google Drive

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What's New with Stu

• Issue 78 of news.T4L was released! Let's take a closer look.

• DELL Latitude 7420 needs a BIOS update

• The T4L Digital Drive-Thru is moving timeslots from next week. Have your say on when it should be starting from week 4.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• 360 degree Cameras

  • Great resources on the stem.T4L website - 360° Camera kit

  • Ricoh Theta 4k 360 camera - 360-degree camera RICOH THETA - Available on EdBuy. $539

  • Here are some alternatives - The best 360 cameras in 2021 | Digital Camera World

  • Software: Situ and CoSpaces Pro have free to use license with the stem.T4L kits.

    • CoSpaces Basic free. Pro US$75 per year 5 seats.

    • Situ 360 - $250 per year 35 seats

    • Software that comes with cameras.

  • T4L Software - How to Make a Digital Art 360° Panorama with Photoshop CC 2018

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Linda Lazenby - PEO - Digital Support Team and stem.T4L

  • DLA positions close this Wednesday

• Robyn Veugen - Teacher Librarian and Digital Classroom Officer at Dubbo Public School

  • Check the case study of the proof of concept for the Rural Access Gap that Dubbo PS was involved in

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What's New with Stu

• Windows 10 v1809 devices in schools will be disabled from 1 November and will need an F12-rebuild ASAP.

• The old Netboot option for Apple Macs via eT4L was decommissioned today

• DoE's Google Workspace service now allows staff to easily lookup students, staff and auto-generated Groups using Autofill

• Queensland Education's Coding@Home webisodes are all now available online! They are a fantastic resource for students interested in kicking off their coding journey!

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Hour of Code is coming up in December!

• MTA will be adding the new Root iRobot onto EdBuy very soon, hopefully with better pricing for schools.

  • Here is their current purchase information

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Craig Merrick and Michael West join us from the Digital Learning Advisors team to discuss

  • Former Yammer Hot Spots guest, Craig Merrick returns together with Michael West - they are two of the eight Digital Learning Advisors (DLAs) that started in their new role in Term 3 and will tell us all about it!

  • A further seven DLAs are being recruited right now to bolster the statewide team.

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What's New with Stu

• Google Chrome Extensions and Add-Ons - Yammer came to the rescue!

• Using the Microsoft Authenticator app on your Phone to simplify authenticating the Azure Virtual Desktop sessions.

  • For Apple iPhone

  • For Android phones

• Google Forms Autosave feature - it's now alive!

Greig's Hot Tip!

• New Outlook Webmail after migration to Exchange Online

  • 20 great new features in Outlook Webmail

  • Easily find a free spot in everyone's calendar

  • Email.Modernisation project webpage

  • When is my school scheduled for migration?

  • Email.Modernisation community on Yammer

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Mona Sidhu and Sharon Dancer join us from the Cyber Safety team to discuss

  • the Cybermarvel website for fun videos, games and other curated resources and scheduled events to get your students involved throughout October and beyond.

  • the eSafety Commissioner’s Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education

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What's New with Stu

• The latest issue of news.T4L was released today. Let's take a deeper dive!

• Reading Progress was released in our Microsoft 365 tenant together with a launch webinar to be held tomorrow!

• Hot on the heels of the K-6 and Early Learning Guided Activities there are new 7-10 Learning Support Activities to share with your high school teachers!

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Coding in the Accessibility space

  • Core Jumper - Code Jumper

  • On-line resources - Unpacking Code Jumper : Code Jumper: An inclusive physical coding language - Microsoft Educator Center

  • Purchase from:

  • Humanware - Humanware - Code Jumper - Low vision & blindness solutions

  • Vision Australia - Code Jumper | eShop (visionaustralia.org)

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Joachim Cohen - Leader of the T4L Utilisation and Innovation team in ITD

• Mark Greentree - the department's Director of Technology for Learning, who is also the R/Executive Director of Customer Experience and Service Delivery.

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What's New with Stu

• New Learning for Home resources for High Schools (stages 4 & 5) coming on Wednesday

• There is a new Cyber Safety community on Yammer

• Things coming next week:

  • Sept 8 - The first schools in the general migration to Exchange Online - schedule to be published in news.T4L

  • Sept 9 - ChromeOS 92 will begin rolling out to DoE-enrolled Chromebooks

Greig's Hot Tip!

• The Jabra PanaCast series of web conferencing cameras are worth taking a look at.

• Logitech Webcam offerings

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Curtis Landesmann is a newer Technology Support Officer, currently working at both Randwick Public School and the Penshurst Girls Campus of Georges River College. Let's have a chat!

  • Check out Curtis' little side-project - Farsight

• Neil Lavitt - principal at Cronulla South Public School joins us again to fill us in on how his school has been managing teaching and learning from home.

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What's New with Stu

• New resources to help staff and students with getting onto Canva for Education:

  • Accessing Canva for Education - Teachers

  • Accessing Canva for Education flyer - Students

  • Here's a new quick video that explains the whole process!

• There is an ongoing Teacher to Student email issue happening at the moment.

  • It's being investigated. Some have said the issue doesn't happen if sending from Outlook desktop.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• YouTube Trimmer is a very handy tool that:

  • Lets you easily share just a section of a YT video with students

  • Present the segment in full screen (no recommended videos or comments)

  • Doesn't include ads.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Ben Tindale is one of ITD's amazing Service Relationship Managers that lead a local team of ICT Field Operations staff that directly support schools in their area. Ben covers the Macquarie Park operational area.

• Chris Cividino is a Digital Learning Advisor in the Digital Support Team. What's all that about? Let's have a chat!

  • Digital Support Team webpage

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What's New with Stu

• news.T4L issue 76 for week 6 is out! Let's take a closer look.

• Newly updated Guidelines to support schools using live video with students

• Regular Learning from Home Webinars every Wednesday

Greig's Hot Tip!

• This might help while working from home with web conferencing

  • Working From Home With Kids? Krisp Noise Cancelling App Will Help - YouTube

  • Krisp Review - Noise Removal App (Kids Screaming!) - YouTube

• Upcoming Robotics competitions:

  • Robocup Junior Australia

  • First Lego League

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Sarah Kennedy is a teacher and School ICT Coordinator at Oatley Public School in southern Sydney. Let's catch up and see what's happening there.

• Leo Guisti is a relatively new Technology Support Officer at St Clair High School. Let's have a chat!

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What's New with Stu

• Remote Access for School staff now with a handy getting started video

• Zoom went down across Australia today for about an hour

  • What's the plan for Zoom in NSW DoE going forward?

• Hot off the press - New student portals will be released in September - high schools first and then primary schools

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Microsoft MakeCode updates!

  • Microsoft MakeCode

  • MakeCode Labs

    • Note: MakeCode Labs are experimental platforms

  • BuildBee | MakeCode - Approved to join the Official MakeCode group soon! (Australian)

    • 3D Printing using Programming - Block, Java and Python languages.

    • Applied understanding of XYZ Coordinates, Shape Formulae, Coding and more

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Marlene Filippi is the Teacher Library and School ICT Coordinator at Newbridge Heights Public School where multiple technology teaching and learning initiatives are in place.

• Greg Pollard is the Head Teacher Admin and School ICT Coordinator at Kirrawee High School. Let's have a chat!

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What's New with Stu

• The fix for the Adobe sign-on on eT4L computers was pushed out to all managed devices at schools and in corporate offices. Devices that are at home and unable to join the DETNSW network will need to continue with the workaround.

• I produced a couple of Getting Started with Yammer videos that are worth sharing with any staff at your school who are yet to discover what Yammer is and how they are missing out.

• The TSO's Toolbox is a cool Wiki page put together in Yammer by Ondrej Zima, highlighting the various online tools that TSOs can use. This follows on from the handy pinned posts at the top of the ICT Support and Microsoft Teams groups.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Handy Adobe PhotoShop alternatives:

  • Photopea | Online Photo Editor

  • GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Sheree Joseph is the Campaign and Strategy Lead in the Content and Digital Transformation team. She is currently leading the daily Education LIVE initiative , producing livestreams for students across NSW

  • Check out past Education LIVE recordings at the Learning from Home website

• Yvette Poshoglian is a Superhero content creator in the T4L Utilisation and Innovations team. She's also an accomplished author and was a presenter on Education LIVE!

  • Check out all the books that Yvette has published

  • Over 18,000 students are registered to join into the 2021 Virtual Book Week!

  • Discover the Everyone's an Author set of resources

  • Find all the past issues of magazine.T4L and T4L Kids

  • Subscribe to T4L's Virtual Staffroom podcast

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What's New with Stu

• • Issue 75 of news.T4L was released! Let's take a deeper dive.

  • Dealing with inappropriate posts by students on Teams or Classroom

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Have you discovered the Speechify extension for Chrome or Edge Chromium to easily do text to speech?

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Andrew O'Brien is a STEM Curriculum Adviser for Secondary Schools at Parramatta Office

  • Have you joined the Statewide Staffrooms for your KLAs?

• Ngaire Booth is the Teacher Librarian at Nyngan High School who you'll find regularly on Yammer!

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What's New with Stu

• • Adobe Creative Cloud apps on Windows reporting "Update required" when trying to sign in

  • New T4L Learning pathways have been shared to help staff build their skills in:

    • Google Workspace

    • Microsoft 365

    • Apple iPad

  • In case you missed it, SketchUp Pro 2021 is still available for free for home use until the end of this year

  • Is Yammer a safe space for us all to ask questions about our work?

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Accessing commonly used websites into progressive web apps via Chrome or Edge Chromium

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Brendan Jones is a long time Yammer user and Teacher Quality Advisor in the Adamstown Office

• Nick Patsianas is back for a second chat to discuss his new role in NSW DoE as a Publications Officer in the Digital Solutions team

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What's New with Stu

• • With one week of school left, we only have limited time to identify all remaining "out-of-support" Windows devices at schools:

    • 1607 and 1709 MUST be F12 rebuilt

    • 1809 can be F12'd or allowed to run the eT4L In-Place Upgrade

  • Known issues with the IPU for Windows 10 v1809 devices:

    • Microsoft Surface Pro 7 - dock and webcam may not work. To fix, install the "17763" driver from here

    • Acer TravelMate x514 (advanced notebook) - Wireless driver missing. To fix install the Intel 9560 driver from here

    • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 (advanced desktop) - nVidia graphics driver missing. Still being confirmed.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Learn something new over the school holidays! If you're stuck at home these holidays, why not use the time to learn something new?

  • Is there a robot or other STEM peripheral at school that you'd like to learn about? Take it home with you and find out how it works!

  • What about learning more about some of the amazing Digital Tools available to all schools?

  • Have you never really got into the amazing Adobe Creative Cloud tools? Why not learn how to use PhotoShop?

  • Or just catch up on past episodes of Yammer Hot Spots that you might have missed!

Today's Yammer Hot Spot!

• We'll have an extended chat with Greg Sharkey who is the ICT Service Relationship Manager for the Ultimo operational area, and who is also about to retire from the NSW DoE after 37 years in teaching and IT support.

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What's New with Stu

• • The old script that was paused in April 2020 was resumed on Friday - Any managed Windows device that has not been used for more than six months had its DETNSW computer record disabled.

  • YouTube Restricted Mode - a pilot was run in 2020 with 24 schools to trial this across Kindergarten through Year 10. Following discussions with the Secondary Principals Council, it's been decided that YouTube will be opened to ALL high school students from the middle of Term 3. Years 7-10 will get Restricted mode, while Years 11-12 and staff will continue with their current access level.

  • Java SE and Flash Player are expected to be remotely removed from eT4L devices from 18 June 2021

  • Apple Caching Server - new Mac Mini M1 model now on EdBuy!

    • NOTE: While you can buy these now, it is essential that when purchasing, the Apple Caching Server is the ONLY item on your purchase order with Apple

    • It's recommended that you don't connect and turn on before the start of Term 3, while final configurations on the central JAMF Pro service are completed.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Getting your head around native screen sharing in Windows 10

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Fiona Gawne is the Technology Support Officer at Narrandera High School in the Riverina area

• Joe Knagge is the ICT Service Relationship Manager for the Dubbo operational area, which takes in Narrandera and far beyond!

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What's New with Stu

• • Since the new lock screen appeared last Thursday, 20H2 builds have sped up. We now have almost 90,000 complete!

    • It was at 65,000 last Monday

  • UDM update to allow for a 20 character alphanumeric Comment to be added to each device is scheduled for 10 June (assuming it's approved by the change management committee)

    • This will help with identifying each device either by age and/or owner

  • Connecting Metro Schools? When is it happening?

    • What options do metropolitan schools have for getting their network infrastructure upgraded?

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Maths Whiteboard - online collaborative whiteboard tool

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Deb Hogg is the Teacher Librarian at Bankstown Girls High School.

  • Find out more about Shootsta and Schools Video

  • Bankstown Girls High School website

• Mary Nikolakopoulos is the Teacher Librarian at Clemton Park Public School.

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What's New with Stu

• • The latest news.T4L is out! Let's go through it a little more closely.

  • Internet@Edge - new sites getting a Fortinet FortiGate appliance. Three different filters are now in use across DoE.

Greig's Hot Tips

• Microbit coding

• Microbit Do Your Bit Challenge on NOW

• Microbit on the STEM.T4L Learning Library

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Jacob Druce is a Film and Video Graphics Designer in the T4L team.

• Andrew Balzer returns to YHS, but this time representing Microsoft!

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What's New with Stu

• • Primary Principals Association Technology Reference Group meetings are held each term and I provide them with an update. Here is the latest.

• • Adobe Creative Cloud / Acrobat activation code expiry - What's going on?

• • Wireless driver issue on Windows 10 v1909 and 20H2 on newest model HP and Dell laptops - see Mohammed Riyazuddin's post - Still being worked on by DDAC.

Today's Yammer Hot Spot

• Yasmin Narielvala is the acting Executive Director of Infrastructure Services at ITD. As one of the members of ITD's executive Leadership team, she manages a wide variety of teams that provide the nuts and bolts of the department's technology infrastructure.

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What's New with Stu

• • Scheduled UDM maintenance tomorrow afternoon

  • LinkedIn Learning is free via some public libraries

• • Where are we up to with old Windows 10 rebuilds?

  • The release of Chrome OS 88 has been delayed due to NAPLAN testing. Now expected the week of 24 May.

  • Transformation of Support Services in NSW DoE - there are opportunities to have your say

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Merryn Whitfield is the Instructional Leader Literacy at Peakhurst Public School. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but she has been doing great things with technology in the classroom for many years, so let's find out!

  • CoSpaces and Tynker Pro

• Nick Biddle works at Newcastle High School as the Head Teacher of Computing Studies. As well as a regular on Yammer, he's been doing amazing transformational work at the school.

  • Newcastle High School website

  • Unity Game Training

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What's New with Stu

• • The latest news.T4L is causing a bit of a stir with some of the articles it included. Let's go through them.

Hot product of the Week with Greig

• • What on earth is an mBot Neo?

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Eric McCarron is a stem.T4L Community Leader. He's been doing amazing work, particularly in promoting creativity in the classroom.

  • Creating a Digital Second Brain - a good visual link to follow

• Joanne Sheppard works at Fairvale Public School and as well as being a classroom teacher, she's the school's ICT Coordinator and a regular on Yammer.

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What's New with Stu

• • The Rural Access Gap Program - It's starting to roll out, and with it are some new standards

    • New Windows devices will be "Ready for T4L" and don't require an F12 build

  • Windows 20H2 was released, and schools are already updating in big numbers. But what will happen to old 1607, 1709 and shortly 1809 that are all end-of-support as far as Microsoft is concerned?

Tip of the Week with Greig

• • New proposed standards for wireless screen sharing/casting/mirroring/extending in NSW DoE.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Cathie Circosta is a Teacher at Hoxton Park Public School in Sydney's south-west. She's a long time Yammer user at a school that's been doing amazing things with technology and kicking goals for many years.

• David Isaacs is the Systems Administrator and James Rudd is the Network Administrator at one of the department's premier selective high schools, Sydney Boys. It's one of only a few non-eT4L schools in the state, so let's find out what that's all about.

  • Sydney Boys High School BYOD website

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What's New with Stu

• • Did you know this episode caps off the first year of Yammer Hot Spots?

    • We're had 65 different guests to chat to and produced 18.5 hours of recorded viewing!

  • Windows 20H2 is almost here, but many schools are jumping into the pilot and building devices

  • With the Adobe Creative Cloud 2020 suite, you can only be signed into 2 devices at a time!

Tip of the Week with Greig

• • Remote Desktop Manager - David Summerville's discovery

    • You can install and run this for free and it will let you RDP to multiple devices in a room at the same time - great for remotely kicking on a rebuild via Software Center!

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• David Summerville is the Head Teacher of Technology at the Wallsend Campus of Callaghan College in Newcastle. A long time Yammer user and a longer time school computer coordinator. We'll be chatting about the past and the future and they amazing things happening with tech at his school.

• Jo Horne is another long term Yammer user. As the TSO (Technology Support Officer) and Science Lab Technician at Wee Waa High School, she'll be sharing stories about her school's recent changes, the Rural Access Gap and how everybody has coped with it.

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What's New with Stu

• • news.T4L for week 9 /T1 was released today. Let take a closer look.

  • It's been really wet. What should you do if you get water damage to computer devices?

Tip of the Week with Greig

• • Windows 10 screen snipping tools

    • https://bityl.co/64lA

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Laura Chaffey is the new relieving Principal at Stroud Road Public School, but for many years she's been a Yammer devotee and an amazing teacher at The Junction Public School in Newcastle. Let's catch up on her really big change!

• Wayne Forbes is one of a team of Digital Classroom Officers directly supporting new build schools and also now Rural Access Gap schools with taking control of their big influx of technologies

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What's New with Stu

• • Edge Chromium browser is coming to eT4L Tier 1 apps! Pilot is about to start.

  • Minecraft Education Edition - From 1 April, it is expected that individual licences will again be required for all students and staff

  • Adobe Creative Cloud - older devices still using CC 2018 with an enterprise activation may stop working

Find of the Week with Greig

• • What is the Jellybean Printed Car?

    • 3D PRINTED DIY ELECTRIC CAR, the Jellybean3D (ENGLISH, Part 1) - YouTube

    • 3D PRINTED ELECTRIC CAR DIY, Jellybean3D 1-10 scale (Part 3) - YouTube

  • Open RC F1 cars

  • OpenRC F1 car - 1:10 RC Car by barspin - Thingiverse

  • #OpenRC - Fully 3D Printed RC McLaren F1 Racing Car - YouTube

  • Worlds Largest OpenRC F1 Car - Phase 1 // 3D Printing the Parts (Matterhackers BUILD PLA / Pro Flex) - YouTube

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Craig Merrick is a TAS teacher at Armidale Secondary College who has been doing a lot of work with gamification in the classroom

  • He's been doing this for a long time! Education and Dragons - the gamification of schools

  • Take a look at the brand new Armidale Secondary College

  • Check out Craig's Yammer posts all about gamification!

    • Tech Mandatory Village Design Project

    • Persistent Engaging Dynamic Learning Environment

    • Realm of the Mystic Turtle

• Sung Yoon is a long term PDHPE teacher and brand new School ICT Coordinator at Central Sydney Intensive English High School who also recently joined Yammer. His school is also very new!

  • Take a look at the brand new Central Sydney Intensive English High School

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What's New with Stu

• • The delayed T4L Rollout has started! The ordering portal is open and the T4L Rollout Catalogue is available!

  • Setting your profile pic in Yammer - finally there's a way to show yourself in Yammer with a photo or avatar instead of just initials!

  • A great question about livestreaming from school brought up some excellent discussion and resources

Tip of the Week with Greig

• • What is Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and why should you consider using it on your livestreams?

    • Using a virtual whiteboard in a live or recorded session by writing on the video display

Today's Yammer Hot Spots

• Our extra special guest today is Simon Maizels - Group Director, Teaching and Learning Experience in ITD

  • It's not often we get to speak with senior executives, so this should be good.

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What's New with Stu

• • The week 6 issue of news.T4L is out - let's take a closer look

  • Check out picktime.com - could be a very handy (free) online calendar booking service for your school

  • Stu's YouTube Channel - almost 80 videos up there!

Tip of the Week with Greig

• • What are Interactive End Point devices?

    • NSW DoE MLD information page

    • magazine.T4L feature on MLDs and MoCoWs

      • Interactive End Point devices are coming soon!

      • Also, upcoming changes to MoCoW and MLD definitions

      • and a new category in the works called a SSLeD (Screen Sharing Learning Display).

Today's Yammer Hot Spots