John OFarrell Education Manager

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John OFarrellEducation Manager
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Pavilion Internet Plc.

• Started in 1994
• Part of the Easynet Group of companies
• Based in Brighton, staff of 40 professionals
• Specialise in Business and Education
• Value Added Services and Solutions

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What is SchoolNet?

• Pavilions focus on Education
• 1997-99 Pioneer LAN Solutions with Nynex and now
  BTs 0820 service
• Options - Number of Students and Staff
• Content via www.schoolnet.org.uk
• NINAA software - Grid Server

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Grid Server for NGfL

• An Internet communications system, so simple, an
  adult could use it
• mail server
• web server
• proxy server for filtering
• news server
• chat server
• file server

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Summary needs analysis

• ease of administration
• protection from inappropriate material
• every student to have their own email address
• easy publishing of web pages
• discussion groups within safe environment
• information and analysis
• open to future changes and development

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Intuitive Web Interface
Consistent menu down the left side of your
screen Clear choice of subject area, users
verses filtering Available from any browser on
the network Available only to trusted teachers
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Filtering Green and Red
AUP - acceptable use policy Red filters are
the traditional ban lists Green lists came
from our Primary Heads .. and are now often
used for curriculum lists The logs guarantee
that while a student may get somewhere
inappropriate today, .. they wont
tomorrow NINAA filters work together with the
.. upstream smart filter at Pavilion
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E-Mail for everyone
NGfL expects e-mail for every student While we
support any standard e-mail client Listening to
teachers, particularly in primaries We brought
you browser based e-mail
No need to set up and manage mail clients
Access from any workstation No online charges
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Community Access to Zone Learning Materials
Mirror the School Intranet onto your public
website www.schoolname.location.sch.uk for
teachers, students and parents to access from
home private password protected folders on
server for teachers students can retrieve work
from teachers at home security - protects
school network from hackers savings - no modems
or management costs for the school
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News - safe environment
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Whos doing what when
We monitor every access by individual Show
sites that are really popular ... by hits or by
users Improve filters Under NGfL it will
become increasing important to demonstrate
results and produce reports Export into Excel
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Open Standards
Industry Standard Applications We are
committed to providing solutions in response to
the needs of schools.
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Broadband Solutions
An appropriate mix of 4 basic choices ISDN -
64K to 512K using 0820 or ADSL - 512K
downstream 64K up Fibre - leased lines up to
2MG Radio - internal and external
Thank you for your time. It is now my pleasure
to Introduce .