Tomi Dolenc, Arnes

The e-School Bag project was both a challenge and decisive step in the right direction. The e-content and e-services were planned swiftly and professionally, and developed through a coordinated effort between the project partners – The National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and ARNES, setting up at the same time the e-infrastructure required. This comprehensive approach creates an environment that allows the e-content and e-services to become really useful during classes. We have learned a great deal from the project. It has provided us with an insight into the importance of supporting and educating teachers, which is certainly an issue that merits greater consideration. Moreover, various issues related to the safe use of the internet and devices have been identified, and during the project we were faced with a challenge of how to ensure a sustainable developed environment, services and content.

Tomi Dolenc has been dealing with the needs of end users at ARNES since 1994. As the head of user communications he is responsible for coordinating various interest groups in the field of research, education and culture, and is actively involved in related international activities.  He has played an active role in planning ARNES services, as well as support and education activities, focusing particularly on projects aimed at integrating ICT into education. In his spare time, he loves cheese and spending time in the nature – ideally both at the same time.

Janko Harej, ŠCNG, Arnes

The presentation will be focused on the results of the e-School Bag project in the field of SIO services. We will present the latest developments in particular services and reveal some details related to their further development. What were our main challenges and how did we tackle them? What are we most proud of? What will our future look like?

Janko Harej holds a bachelor’s degree in Computing and Information Science. He has been employed at the Nova Gorica School Centre as a secondary-school and post-secondary vocational-college lecturer. He has been working on the inclusion and use of ICT in the education system through various projects. He also coordinated the development of the SIO services in the e-School Bag project.

Damjan Ferlič, OŠ Franja Malgaja Šentjur

We will present the activities carried out in schools to help make technology use as comfortable and safe as possible, as well as the approaches, tools and technological solutions used to achieve this objective. Since technology unfortunately cannot protect users from all the dangers presented by the digital world, more attention should be devoted to the education of students, teachers and parents. Not wanting to leave anything to chance, we also strive to identify all the potential traps and issues associated with the increasing use of digital technology.

Damjan Ferlič graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Information Science. He has been working in primary schools as a computer specialist and organiser of information activities ever since, and is in charge of ensuring that the entire information communication infrastructure operates perfectly. He is also responsible for numerous ICT services, as well as educating and providing assistance to end users. He is particularly interested in servers, networks and IPv6. He has also been actively cooperating with ARNES in various fields.

Barbara Buchegger, Pedagogical Manager, Saferinternet.at

There are currently no plans in the Austrian educational system to include any special curriculum or subjects on topics such as online-security, responsible online behaviour or copyright, and so there is no guarantee that the students will encounter such topics during their time at school. Saferinternet.at introduced several measures in order to help change things, e.g. free educational material for teachers, training sessions in schools (especially “Saferinternet.at – Vaccination”), as well as teacher and head-teacher training sessions. Through the implementation of such measures, a total of 14,000 students and teachers were reached in 2013 and 2014 alone.

This lecture will demonstrate the Austrian approach and several easy-to-go classroom activities for different age groups.
 
Barbara Buchegger is the pedagogical manager at Saferinternet.at. She develops course curricula, teaching materials and works as a trainer for schools as part of the Austrian training team. She is an expert in collaborative e-learning and large group facilitation.