Past, present

1
Past, present future

• Andy Jackson and Chris Price
• Robin Batman

Your future is safe in our hands!
2
Past, present future

• A trip down memory lane
• 1989 to 1995
• ERA and MIS
• 70mb servers or two w/s using PowerLan
• DOS Word and SIMS
• MemoPC
• And the curriculum?
• RM Nimbus network or standalones
• BBC machines
• No planned systems

3
Past, present future

• 1998 to 2002 to 2005
• NGfL initiative
• ISDN2 and 2Meg lines
• BGfL as a safe environment for learning
• Joining networks together
• PLASC 2001 (early) then SQL servers
• Caching servers and video conferencing
• Laptops for all kinds of groups
• ADSL for wideband

4
Past, present future

• 1998 to 2002 to 2006 (continued)
• Choice of modern MIS
• Remote almost everything
• BGfL Plus VLE
• 10mb for all (at near to the price of 2mb)
• 52 million in investment

5
Past, present future

• 2006-2007
• Whats new for the coming year?
• Replacing the caching servers
• Replacing bottleneck infrastructure
• Parago audit tool and service improvement
• Communicating with the community
• Learning Gateway (SIMS.net schools)
• e-Portal enhancements (Facility schools)
• Groupcall Messenger
• Digital Birmingham

6
Past, present future

• 2006-2007
• Whats new for the coming year? (final)
• Service Birmingham. and
• Link2ICT!

ISS
7
Past, present future

• 2006-2007
• Mostly about technology, infrastructure and data
  (input model)
• Are we making the most of your investment for
  learning outcomes? (output model)
• necessary but not sufficient (Ken Dyson, Chief
  HMI for ICT)
• And so to Digital Birmingham