How the Ultranet fits into the teaching and learning by teachers in Victoria is best illustrated by this diagram from the online interactive manual. The blue balls represent the different stages and coloured icons, the different tools that can be used.  

We have a better idea about where it fits into our teaching and learning. Some online users are doing well to help address concerns about how it can be best integrated with other online tools such as GoogleDocs, Diigo or Evernote. Most importantly, a primary goal is to help protect and secure confidential data about student performance and progress.

Many are starting to understand that the hardest thing about engaging with the Ultranet is changing our practice of teaching, learning, collaborating and working together online. Perhaps not surprisingly, many still take pencil and paper notes or persist with share handouts on a school Intranet server.

By contrast, some schools are already starting to use the Ultranet for sharing timetables, term planners and other important documents. Progressively moving away from distributing and sharing these as email attachments.

Some teachers are using this to ask questions and calling for feedback. Interesting to see how they are using Twitter as a PLN to share tips, tricks and advice.

Teachers are increasingly confident about asking for feedback about their work online.

During April, the DEECD Ultranet team organised a focus group and it was a great chance for some to give feedback about new features or current applications.