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Overview

Steiner Schools lay the foundation for lifelong learning during early childhood andprimary school - through a uniquely human education

Steiner Primary Education is a multi-disciplinary, multiple intelligence-engaging anddynamic experience. It provides a natural and human environment where children learn to

observe, question, and express themselves fully. This expression includes consistentlyproducing creative and original work: in spoken and written text, performance and visualarts, scientific observation, mathematical relationships and appropriate technology. From aSteiner viewpoint, young children need to communicate and learn deeply without themediation of complex technology. This unplugged experience is seen as crucial; to childrendeveloping an uncluttered self-image, and to the most valuable form of self-efficacy onethey completely own

Steiner high school students learn to apply ICT creatively, ethically and with deep

knowledge

Steiner high school students have an empathetic and deep interest in the world and itshumanity. They enthusiastically embrace a wide range of complex technologies, especiallyICT to help them engage this interest. Furthermore the foundational work they received inthe primary years now come to the fore, as they consistently apply their creativity andenthusiasm to ICT in its many forms. This is refreshing within a global education paradigmof clip-art, copy, paste, crop, mash, rip and mix a paradigm where original content is

becoming a rare commodity. .

Our ICT PhilosophyThe philosophy and practices underpinning Rudolf Steiner Education have convinced us thathuman communication mediated by digital technology is detrimental to early childhood and

primary education.

However, the same philosophy and practices also indicates that we are duty bound aseducators, to fully support graduating students by ensuring they attain deep knowledge andcompetencies in a wide range of ICT.

As a Steiner School we are also dedicated to the spiritual, emotional and physical health ofour children, students, staff and community, as such we are mindful that whatever the

benefits of ICT, any implementation of technology at school should first and foremost doleast harm spiritually, psychologically, physically or environmentally.

There is no question that the twelve human senses are constantly being assaulted by thedigital world. Through our teaching we must do everything possible to enliven the children'srelationship to real world phenomenon

And finally Lorien Novalis School feels duty-bound to promote human freedom in relationto ICT by naming and confronting commercialization, exploitation and the product brandingof children through digital media and technologies

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Our ICT Principles

Digital technology including computers, laptops or other mobile devices are not used in anykindergarten or primary classrooms at Lorien Novalis School. Digital presentations for

parent evenings and digital cameras on excursions can be used at the Class Teachersdiscretion.

Deep knowledge and a wide range of competencies in ICT will be developed throughout thehigh school years.

ICT education must be based on a students developing a sound understanding of theunderlying principles of digital technology hardware and software

We aspire to provide children and students with the most natural and healthy schoolenvironment. Therefore, we limit the amount electromagnetic radiation at school byrequiring that mobile phones be turned off during the school day and all computers,

including laptops, be connected to the networks via network cables.

Fixed Computers with large, low-radiation screens, will be used in preference to laptops inorder to promote: better posture and reduce eye strain, to provide a larger screen workingsurface for teaching and learning and to better differentiate modes of learning digitallearning spaces vs 'unplugged' reflective learning spaces

In order to combat the commercialisation of education through digital technology LorienNovalis School supports Free and Open Source Software(FOSS), wherever it is in keepingwith the schools philosophy.

By its nature, our education will do much to protect and enliven thesenses of youngchildren. This is all the more important today due to the devastating effect technologygenerally, and ICT in particular, has on our 12 windows on the world, our senses. InParticular we must continue to deepen our work in theArts across the School for all teachersand students.This is very important since there is now overwhelming clinical evidence that moderntechnology is anathema to the crucial (Will) sense, that of human movement. Here, ICT notonly deeply impacts on the two fundamental dynamics in Steiner education living human

speech and Eurythmy (Life Movement) but also by assaulting the way children perceivecolour (eg. atomised HEX colour-space) and and sound (eg. atomised MIDI-based music).

Consequently, it is very important that Eurythmy, Creative Speech, watercolour painting andsinging, for example, continue to be held strongly across our school curriculum. This isespecially important in High School where students experience digital colour and digitalsound everywhere in their lives - even through ICT at school.

We will encourage and promote original creative workacross the school and especially inrelation to ICT in High School.

We will help promote a healthy self-image in our students by requiring open and respectfulcommunications, especially with respect to ICT. This also includes accepting ownership ofeverything we do on the school networks no anonimity.

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Why Choose Open Source Software?

There are several reasons why we chose to work with Free and Open Source Software(FOSS), and the GNU/Linux operating system in particular, for our servers and desktopcomputers on the Education Network, namely, FOSS/Linux:

is about sharing. Linux is a community projectrather than a global duopoly (Microsoft and Apple),

allows us to step back from the commercialbranding and lock-in of students at schools by thebig software companies,

is very good, secure, stable and is licence free

allows students at Lorien Novalis to get closer to thetechnology as such a good thing,

is free in two ways: free as in no (or little) cost andfree as in freedom of speech - because the softwarecode isn't secret as it is with most commercialsoftware,

is totally configurable because the software code isopen an available,

gives students a new perspective on what a moderncomputer is students have to leave theirMac/Windows comfort zone,

Linux effectively doesn't have viruses,

There are thousands of FOSS/Linux softwareapplications available for free,

is closely connected to concepts of CreativeCommons and copyleft this give students analternative perspective in issues concerning

plagiarism and copyright,

is focused on interoperability despite the hurdlesplaced by some commercial software and hardware

interests, there are considerable successes.

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How we startedIn the early 1990s Lorien Novalis established a small Appleshare network foradministration.By the end of the 90s a small Apple computer room had been added in the schooloffice building with (10 X G3 iMacs). The computer room was used for lessons withClasses 11 and 12. Students also had lessons in electronics and some programing

Computer Laboratory 2002

The school provided $9000 which was spent as follows:

Furniture: flooring sheets used to build desks ($600)

Electrical work: Professional installation of 3 protected mains circuits servicing 70 poweroutlets. ($8000)

Network cabling: Cat5E loomed and connected by a teacher/technician and senior students.($400)

All computers, screens and servers were secondhand and donated by local companies andparents. All software was Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in particular we decidedon the French Linux distributionMandrake (now called Mandriva).

Desks were built with electrical power and a servicetray underneath to keep cables out of the way

Senior students sorting through donated equipment prior to testing

In 2002, senior students, teachers and parents converted a old art room into a 32 workstationComputer Lab. This was a very important step in our work with ICT. For the first time,students and teachers could experiment with software and hardware without worrying aboutthe (understandably precious) School Office Network. We now had a totally independentEducation Network where we could develop a more 'grass roots' relationship to technology.The next important decision, was to place the Server (room), in the Laboratory itself wewanted everything out in the open, so to speak - after all it is a laboratory as much as aclassroom.

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We soon realized that there was too much 'technology' for the size of the room and startedfund raising immediately to buy LCD screens.

By 2006 the Lab was well established and was now being used by students in Classes 9 to12 as required. It comprised 30 networked workstations, file and proxy servers, ADSL,

printer and scanner stations and 120 user accounts. And after struggling with old (free)hardware for four years, the school provided $25 000 funding for computer hardware andthis is how we spent it:

Desktops: 30 X secondhand 1G Pentium III Compaq, small form boxes @ $200 per unit; and 30 X new15 glass protected LCD screens @ $300 per unit.($15000)

30 X $500workstations

The new LCD screensare much healthier

There were plenty of network cable helpers! Class 12 give an ICT OH&S briefing toClass 8 this happens annually

Computer Laboratory 2002 - continued

Servers: One new 3G HP Proliant server @ $3500,one second hand Compaq proxy server @$500. ($4000)

Other Hardware: One new UPS, Two secondhandPrinters, One secondhand scanner, One newADSL modem, One secondhand switch,One new LCD projector and screencost $6000.

From the very beginning in 2002, we had to decideon seemingly trivial settings and procedures for the

network such as what to call each network user(high school students and staff) and to what degreeusers could configure the look and feel of their useraccount. Not all of them turned out to be trivial.

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First Upgrade 2006

Lorien Novalis now had two operational Networks (Education-Linux and Administration-Apple) each with their own dial-up Internet connection (later to become two ADSL Internetconnections)

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Server and networking are an integrated part of the Laboratoryroom not hidden away from the students

The Laboratoryprint station printing is veryrarely used

From the top: network switchwith cables plugged directlyin, proxy server and screen,main server (modem on top)and screen,UPS (white)

The Laboratory Server desk in use

Sometimes, buying acommercial Linux distribution,helps because of the extra

support and boxed manuals

Shown above is the login (welcome) screen used by

students and staff on the Education (Linux) Networkin 2006. Students learned to log in, find their wayaround the network 'file tree', including in shared(public) directories and in the student intranet web

pages

The wall clocks our the ComputerLaboratory help us to work with localand Internet (Universal) time

Having a quality

LCD projector inthe ComputerLab has beenvery useful, bothas a teaching

support and forstudentpresentationsand for them to

share their work

Some light reading - the FOSS community is allabout sharing and improving technology in freedom.

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Notwithstanding the cramped seating arrangement, The Lab became quite workable with the small formfactor computers and LCD screens. The computer Laboratory was also now being used to teach an ITVocational Framework course in Years 11 and 12.

In 2006 we were teachingfrom the rear of theclassroom. The photo onthe right shows how theteacher's computer screen(foreground), is also the

projected image(projector screen). Thiswas an attempt give theteacher an overview ofwhat students were doing- in a less than ideal,

seating arrangement.

Note the guitars andbanjo hanging at theback of the room multimedia :)

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Many of the photographs

show a poorly litlaboratory - this was toallow for clearer

photographs of thetechnology. In fact theroom is quite light,having white walls, twolarge skylights and a baywindow

A view from the front of the room

A view from the rear of the room

A view from the rear of the room

Computer Laboratory 2006 - continued

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Computer Lab Upgrades 2010

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Following the election of the Australian Rudd Government in 2007, Grant money was offered to all highschools in Australia for high school computers and on-costs for associated infrastructure. Lorien NovalisSchool took full advantage of the National Secondary Schools Computer Fund and has already accessedmore than $100 000 for new computers and infrastructure - some for our current Laboratory and some for anew facility being built this year.

Again, our choice to use FOSS/Linux software meant we could do much more with the grant money.

Here housed in a secondhandopen server rack (left) are someof our new grant purchases(right). From top to bottom:network patch panels patchcables and a managed network

switch, a new server runningRedHat Enterprise Linux, beside it isthe daily backup disk and modem,

finally the UPS (managed powersupply).

The new desktops are running the latest Mandriva LinuxdistributionMandriva Linux 2010.Below is the new login

screen

Anonymity and Web2. It is the experience of schools

generally that anonymity promotes poor behavior on theirnetworks (often by some otherwise good teenagers) - what onemight call the Facebook syndrome (Facebook is described as a

social risk reducer which implies, people do and say thingsthey would never do face-to-face). We had decided in 2002that we would use full names for the student user accounts andthe student and teacher usernames would be the first name(and last name initial). This is in line with how we addresseach other at school first names.As an example my accounton the Education network is Stuart Rushton and my username for logging in isstuartr. These details along with a clear

photograph are visible for all 200 student and staff users to see.The use of real names and real faces is crucial in our opinion.This (real name real photo) is now becoming an industrystandard for things like help desks in order to reduce poor

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Education Network - Current SoftwareAll of the software required to run our Education Network is available for free. Currently we choose to payfor an enterprise supported version of Red Hat Linux ($349) for our main server and for a Limited supportversion of Mandriva Linux 2010 ($55). $55 for an unlimited number of Desktops and all of the softwareneeded for general school work.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) available for our Education Network would list in the hundreds.Here is a list of the software we most commonly use:

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DESKTOP

Mandriva 2010 PowerpackDesktop Operating System

Firefox web browser 3.6Open Office Writerword processorOpen Office CalcspreadsheetOpen Office Impresspresentation (Powerpoint)Open Office Draw (this Case Study was produced and converted to PDF in Open Office Draw)GIMP graphics like PhotoshopPlus 100s of Software for almost any need

NETWORKING

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Main Server

PHP LDAP User and Groups Management

Squid and SquidGuardnetwork management and student usage logsiTALCClassroom Management SoftwareZIMBRA (coming soon)Email platformKOHA (coming in 2011)Library Management

Having configured our desktop computers it is a very simple process to replace a broken oneor add another to the Network we simply copy a software image (binary code) of one of

our Education Network computers onto a new computer (we buy computers without anoperating system installed on them) and there it is, a new Network computer ready to go no fuss, no cost (except for the hardware)

But FOSS is not just about acquiring free software and improving it. It is also about sharingimprovements back to others in the FOSS community.

In this spirit Lorien Novalis School would be happy to share thesoftware images of our fullyfunctioning Education Network. Potentially, this could provide another school with aninstant network (desktops and servers) including all of the software mentioned above. Of

course, there would be lots to setup including local expertise and hardware, but our 8 yearsof research and development would in the images

Working with Open Source is much more about working with real people and their skillsthan it is about opening endless boxes of one-size-fits-all software.

Anonymity and Web2 continued

It is understandable that high school students think of their school user account as a private and personalspace where they can do and say as they like and more than they would in reallife this the socialnetworking paradigm they are familiar with.We are striving to put the Education Network into perspective for them - within a Steiner school context.One way to achieve this is by promoting a culture where student's network user accounts are private and

personal, but no more so than their Main Lesson book or a piece of their artwork. Thought of in this way it isreasonable that their teachers and parents view their digital work including logging into their digitalworkspace where appropriate.

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2010 managing large computer classes

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We are trialingiTALC, Open Source Software at the moment.Below -iTALC classroom management screen showing all student screens.

Using this software the teacher can see and support students whoare logged into the Network. Note the new position of the teacherscomputer (below) front right as viewed.

Below, iTALC has been minimized, and the teacher is now showingtheir working screen to the class.

Yes computing is about explorationand individual journeys - but often itis still about explanation andinstruction by teachers. For example,when one is introducing a newcomputer application or a way ofworking to a large class.

Of course it isn't very politicallycorrect to control other's computers inthis way - but lets not let politicalcorrectness get in the way of a goodeducation :)

Here are some of the things iTALCClassroom Management Software isdoing for us:

The teacher can see all of the studentsscreens along with their names,

They can take over a student'scomputer if the student is stuck andhelp them,

They can select a students screen togo up as the projected image - as ademonstration,

The teacher can have his/her screengo on all student screens,

The teacher can lock and unlock thescreens of individual students ifneeded,

And they can lock and unlock all ofthe student's screens whileconversations take place.

These photographs were taken withthe room darkened for betterexposure of the screens. The roomis normally quite light and airy

Teachers

ITALC

computer

screenat

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Working with ICT in Classrooms

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This is our high school English Room. We don't want to see it filled with laptops or other computing orportable digital devices - our solution is to have a minimalist connection to the Education Network. A studentor teacher can log into their user account and share their work or an Internet site with the rest of the class.The room also has facilities for recorded music, video or DVD.

The English Classroom 'unplugged'

The English Classroom on the Education Network

This Network cabinet contains

a networked computer plusaudio, graphics and networkcables for a presentation laptopat the front of the class

The projector and screen

transform the room into acollaborative, networkedteaching space

A presenters laptop canbe connected from the

front of the classroom tothe projector and the

Network

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The Computer Lab in action

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Class 8 German. As part of a German lesson students visited the Computer Lab. Working in small groupsstudents were required to conduct an Internet search entirely in the German language and find a recipe for atraditional meal. They were to discuss several and choose one. This recipe was then written by hand in theirnotebook.

Want to work on the Internet in German? Limit your search to the top level German domain name by usingadvanced search techniques. For example type into any search engine the word you want to search, saykuchen, followed by site:.de. Your search will look like this kuchen site:.de and the sites that are returnedwill, with a few exceptions, be in German. The class also searched for recipes in German by restricted their

searches to Austria (site:.at) and Switzerland (site:.ch)

Of course the best thingsin life can't be done on orin a computer!

30 minutes in the computerLab one week

An hour in the kitchen thenext week

Taking a class to the computer Lab without a tight focus can be, and often is, a waste of time. Computers are

masters of banal distraction. A lesson like the one above worked really well because the students had beenprepared prior to the visit and because the groups and the tasks were well defined and the task itself, thoughchallenging was achievable within each group.

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The Film LabPhotography has always been an educational theme at Lorien Novalis School. Currently our Film Lab hastwo spaces, a Dark Room for wet photographic work and a Digital Film Room for collaborative digitalmovie work

Developing and printing wet film teaches students to measure and mix

liquids, to plan creative work, to be accurate with timing and how to bepatient.

We feel it is important for students to experience the reflective andalmost meditative experience of wet film work an experience which isin stark contrast to the very exiting (but instant gratification) world ofdigital imagery.

The Dark Room

The Digital Film Room

Year 11 students collaborating on a short film

The Digital Film Room is an evolution of the original student Applecomputer room which was housed in the school administration buildingtill 2002. It works as a totally independent network and includes several

Apple iMacs and while it is not at the moment connected to theEducation Network server, it is planned to do so in the future.

The main software students use is iMovie, iPhoto iDVD and Final Cut Pro movie maker. The main reasonsfor using Apple for digital film, and not Open Sources movie software such as Kino and Cinelerra, are:

Ease and quality iMovie is easy to use and Final Cut Pro produces good movie quality

Precedence - that's how we always did it, and we already had the computers and software

Staff Skills our teachers already have the skills to teach Apple movie making no retraining

Industry Standard Final cut pro is an industry standard

Linux and Apple work well together they are both Unix-like

Student Experience - It gives the students a more diverse experience by adding Apple to the mix

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2010 Administration Upgrade

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Today, the compliance requirements of schools are such that having a few office computers connected to theInternet is no longer enough. In 2010 we upgraded our Administration Network in order to install someadded features for our school administration. They included: upgrading our accounting software from single-user to multi-user, enabling staff user accounts on the Administration Network (similar to the existingEducation Network), upgrading to a digital phone system, improving security through a better UPS and

proxy server and the introduction of an on-line school management system (Edumate).

Door to the small Administrationserver room, in the SchoolAdministration building

The Administration server(open) rack located to theright inside the server roomdoor (top left)

The 1TB external hard drives(above) are currently off-site and

are swapped with three identicalones over weekends

Lorien Novalis SchoolManagement System (Edumate)Server, running onSuse Linux

Administration proxy serverrunningUbuntu Linux

UPS Power Supply

Apple Xserv server running MacOSX Snow Leopard

KVM switches allow all hardwareto connect to one LCD screen

Managed network switches

Patch panels and cables forphone and computer networks

School digital phone networkhardware

Windows XPdigital phonemanagement. Admin backup (right)

Edumate Backup external harddrive

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2010 Administration Upgrade - continued

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On-line School Management System. We decided to provide our school administrators and teachers withan on-line school management system. It is designed to allow easy yet secure access to its underlyingdatabase functions such as enrollments, timetabling, academic reporting, billing, and much more. Only timewill tell if it will actually help us keep compliance levels high and stress levels low. So far it is looking very

promising.

Our schoolmanagement systemmenu page. The

facility is accessiblefrom anywhere there isInternet

This is anAdministrationNetworkiMac runningOSXSnow Leopardlocated in theAdministration building. Thecomputer is dedicated to a frontdesk staff member - but ifrequired any staff membercould log into it

Staff have accounts to access both the Administration Network and Education Network.There are shared and dedicated computers on both networks, but all computers are accessible to all.High school students can only access the Education Network.

This is anEducation Networkcomputer usingMandriva

Linuxand is also located in theAdministration building. Thecomputer is dedicated to ateacher in a staff room. but ifrequired any staff member

could log into it

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Professional Development in ICT

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The Education Network Computer Laboratory is also usedfor professional development requiring ICT and has been usedas such since 2005.

The image on the right shows the Lab ready for an Edumate(school management system) training session with teachers.

Note the session teacher's computer console at the frontdisplaying the other teachers screens - on iTALC classroom

management system.

A teacher professional

development session inprogress (left)

2010 Administration Upgrade - continued

When compared to the Education Network, nearly everything on the Administration Network cost a lot ofmoney. Apple hardware is famously expensive, as is accounting software and the school managementsystem. However, this is all specialized software designed to meet critical school needs.

Administration Network Hardware: One Xserv Server with OSX Snow LeopardTen iMac computers with OSX Snow Leopard

One Edumate Server with Suse Linux (based on FOSS)One proxy server with Ubuntu Linux (FOSS NO COST)One Windows XP computer - digital phone manager

Network switches etc.Various printers

One Edumate Licence (based on FOSS)One MYOB multi-user LicenceOne Adobe AcrobatUnlimited Apple Remote Desktop 3.3

One Retrospect backupOne Apple ParallelsOne Microsoft Project for macTen Microsoft Office for MacTen iWorksTen iLifeTen Open Office Open Source Software (FOSS NO COST)Ten Firefox Open Source Software (FOSS NO COST)Ten GIMP (like Photoshop) Open Source Software (FOSS NO COST)Joomla Web software (FOSS NO COST)

Other Software for the Administration Network:

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Lorien Novalis School Web SiteAnd Open Source Software

Our site was developed on Joomla (FOSS) by and ex-student and is hosted by Sydney WebHosting, a company that supports and uses Open Source including Linux. . We are in the

process of reworking our Website and possibly moving from Joomla to Wordpress (also

Open Source).

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Lorien NovalisWebsite (left) usesOpen Source

Joomla softwareand is hosted quiteinexpensively byan Open Source

focused company

Joomla has manyfeatures that we

don't use or needand theJoomlacontrol panel (left)does not allow for

simple editing byteachers and staff.

For this reason weare looking atWordpress (also

Open Source) forour new Website

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Security and the InternetStudents and Staff are required to sign a Network User Agreement

Students do not have unsupervised access to the Computer Lab

Education Network Internet Access (Currently)

Upper Primary (not currently using computers) - White List (Wikipedia plus .edu and .edu.au toplevel domains)

Classes 8 to 10 Black List (includes no social networking or youtube)

Classes 11, 12 and staff Black List (includes no social networking)

Administration Network Internet Access (Currently)Staff Only - unrestricted

Student Passwords

Network passwords for students are fixed and held by the student's Class Guardian this saves a lot ofIThelp desktype work. Also students know their Guardian can monitor their work on the Network (in the sameway a teacher can with any other school resource say, a main lesson book or some art work.

Student Internet LogsStudents are well aware that teachers can see a list of where they have been on the Internet, as well as wherethey attempted to go

Internet ConnectionsEducation Network - dedicated ADSL modem in bridge mode managed by its proxy serverAdministration Network - dedicated ADSL modem in bridge mode managed by its proxy server

BackupsBoth Network Servers and the Edumate Server are backed up daily onto three external hard drives. Eachweekend the drives are swapped one set is always kept off-site.

Each term images are made of server and desktop computers and these are also kept off-site

Staffing and Maintaining ICTBoth Networks are managed and maintained by the same team:

One Part-time ICT strategist/coordinator/manager (teacher)

One Part-timeApple and database specialist (teacher)

One Casual/Consultant Unix/Linux network specialist and programmer (ex-Lorien parent)

(Adding them all up would be lucky to make one full-time equivalent IT position (cost averaged over a year).Is it enough? No, but we get there). Additional support:

One consultantLinux and network security specialist (Solutions 1st)

One consultantLinux and School Management System developer - ex-Steiner student (Edumate)

One consultant Web design and development (current Lorien parent and ex-Lorien student (PintoCreative)

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2011 and beyond

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A new Education Network Computer Laboratory is taking shape on the school grounds - somewhere near theblue excavator. It will be a much less cramped computer lab but even in this new building the networkingtechnology will not be hidden. The plans include a glass walled server room in the Computer Lab.

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The New ComputerLaboratory will functionmuch as the current onedoes - with more spaceand better furniture

The New ComputerLaboratory Server Roomwill provide additional

physical security by havingan actual room for thenetwork hardware,however the room willhave glass walls and

students can still see theworkings of a 'network'

All complex technology will fail at sometime - hardware wears out, software gets glitches. We have had longperiods (six months) where everything ran like clockwork. Then there are the times when one would wish forany other responsibility than ICT.

How to develop the ICT infrastructure we want - and to keep it working and within our budget - is as big achallenge as any facing us.

Focusing on Linux/FOSS has helped us on in all those areas and its fun! (mostly)

All the wonders of ICT will come to naught if the humanwill is destroyed in childhood by that very wonder

A Final Word

The College of Teachers, Lorien Novalis School for Rudolf Steiner Education, Dural, NSW, Australia

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Case Study Open Source Links

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Red Hat Linux (based on FOSS)http://www.redhat.com.au/

Fedora - the free version of Red Hat (FOSS NO COST)http://fedoraproject.org/

Mandriva Linux (based on FOSS)http://www.mandriva.com.au/

Ubuntu Linux(FOSS NO COST)http://www.ubuntu.com/

ITALC Classroom Management System(FOSS NO COST)http://italc.sourceforge.net/

PHP LDAP Database - (FOSS NO COST)http://php.net/

PHP LDAP Database Manager - (FOSS NO COST)http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Open Office - (FOSS NO COST)http://www.openoffice.org/

The GIMP (Photoshop-like) - (FOSS NO COST)http://www.gimp.org/

Koha Library management System - (FOSS NO COST)http://koha.org/

Source Forge hundreds of Open Source Software - (FOSS NO COST)http://sourceforge.net/

School Forge dozens of Open Source Software focused on schools -

(FOSS NO COST)http://www.schoolforge.net/

(Consultant) Edumate School Management System example of thespecialist Linux support available (based on FOSS)http://www.edumate.com.au/

(Consultant) Solutions First example of the specialist Linux supportavailable (based on FOSS)http://www2.solutionsfirst.com.au/

(Consultant) Pinto Creative example of the specialist WebDesign/Development support available (based on FOSS)http://www.pintocreative.com

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Links - continued

Joomla content managed website software (FOSS NO COST)http://www.joomla.org/

Wordpress website software (FOSS NO COST)http://wordpress.org/

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Australia (FOSS NO COST)http://www.linux.org.au/foss_in_australia

Next Australian Linux Conference Brisbane 2011http://lca2011.linux.org.au/

One of many Linux magazines (FOSS NO COST)http://www.linux-mag.com/

Linux Training example (FOSS NO COST)http://www.linux.org/lessons/

Zimbra state-of-the-art Email (FOSS NO COST)http://www.zimbra.com/

MANDRAKE - our first Linux operatingsystem (in 2002) on the Education Networkserver and desktops. No licence fees, noviruses and only limited by our old hardware

Produced on the Lorien Novalis Education (Linux)Network using Open Office Draw and The GIMP
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