ORT Virtual Campus Offers Students Remote Access to their Works

ORT students can use from their homes a new service provided by the Virtual Campus, which is in beta version: the file administrator.

When entering the Campus, students will have access to their personal folders and files stored at the schools’ servers. Students will have to log in at the internal network (usually with their ID number) and their password. Once they have finished this step, they will be able to get to their files through the highlighted icon of the image.

The file administrator contains all the functions that are usually provided by virtual storage servers, such as file uploading and downloading, folder creation, documents previewing, etc. By using this service, students will be able to continue their homework at home or at school without having the need to forward it by e-mail or copy it on a pendrive or a CD. In some weeks, the file administrator will also be available for the students of the Institutes and for all the teachers.

The Virtual Campus aims at improving the services provided to our students, and keeps on working on one of its fundamental ideas which is to “constantly accompany students”, since their works will be permanently at their own disposal, from any computer, cell phone or PDA connected to the Internet.

Schedule for the 2nd Jurisdictional Meeting on Solidarity Education

September 25th, 2007

Venue: ORT Technical School – Belgrano Campus – Montañeses 2845

For further information and registration: jornadasolidarias@ort.edu.ar

-Limited vacancies-

8:30hs. Registration and accreditation.

9.15 hs. Opening: Principal of ORT Technical School, Belgrano campus, Lic. Viviana Jasid

9.30 hs. Lecture: “Learning and Solidarity Service” by Prof. María Nieves Tapia, Coordinator of the National Program on Solidarity Education

10.30 hs. Coffee break

11.00 hs. Solidarity Institutions Panel: “Organizational experiences in solidarity”

• CLAYSS (Latin American Centre for Service-Learning)

• Missing Children Argentina

• CGP (Management and Participation Center) N° 13 - Government of the City of Buenos Aires - Social network of Belgrano, Nuñez and Saavedra neighborhoods

12.30 hs. Lunch

13.30 hs. Launching of the Solidarity Virtual Forum: “Puntosdeencuetro”

Lecture: “The New Internet and the NGOs” by Prof. Guillermo Lutzky, Director of ORT Argentina’s Virtual Campus

14.30 hs. Workshop A: “Sharing experiences”

Workshop B: “Solidarity networks: Networks of weblogs” by Prof. Guillermo Lutzky

15.30 hs. Idea-sharing session

16:30 hs. Certificates Hand-out

ORT Virtual Campus Distinguished at Canal AR

On August 27th, the digital newspaper “Canal AR” -specialized in the new information technologies (ITs)- published an article titled “Web 2.0 got to the School”. The article highlights the experience of ORT Virtual Campus, which enables the access to students’ and teachers’ productions through a net of weblogs.

The news article was produced from a video interview that Guillermo Lutzky –ORT Virtual Campus Director- gave to the digital magazine “Qué es Comunicación” (What’s Communication). Lutzky told them that the project was supported by the Institution, which decided to search for a redefinition of the school, by placing it in 10 years’ time and within the framework of the Information Society. “From the very beginning we knew that all our students had access to the Internet, most of them from home and others from cybercafés. Then we thought that the classroom could be enlarged far beyond the classroom environment, so many initiatives were generated through publication and production channels on the Internet”, explained Lutzky.