[LINK] How far the fibre?

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

At 09:50 PM 2/07/2007, Janet writes:

> .. Perhaps there is insufficient bling in national housework. Janet

Fat broadband for 'every' school, nationwide, is 'essential' housework:

At 10:55 PM 2/07/2007, (a local school teaching colleague) writes:

> At Hawkesdale p12 College we used video conferencing for several years
> for teaching LOTE (Chinese mandarin), and a year 12 maths subject. We
> have not used it for a few years now as the demand has not been there.

Perhaps the demand for school labs has overwhelmed this particular demand?

> However, we now use skype and the video conferencing portion of that ..
> - to videoconference with primary & secondary classes within our school
> - to videoconference with Warnambool schools
> - as a demonstration to a night class of dairy farmers from school to
> another teacher who was set up at home for this purpose
> - wanted to use it for an IT survey with Deakin Uni in Geelong and our
> year 12 students rather than a telephone conference, but they did not
> have the facilities!!! 
>
> MSN will do a similar thing .. This is such a cheap, effective way of
> doing things.  

This list post, sent tonight, is available on public archives. It is not
unusual content, eg, discussion of current day Internet video activities
in a typical Australian school syllabus. With 1000+ enrollemnts will ADSL
continue to suffice for this for long? 

Cheers, people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia