Intel Launches Engaging Online Education Platform for Students in Sri Lanka called skoool.lk The official web site of the skoool™ learning and teaching program was inaugurated at a ceremony on 29th July 2010 which took place at the official auditorium of the Ministry of Education located at Isurupaya, Battaramulla. The web site would provide valuable tools that are set to revolutionize the level of learning. MoE felicitates Ganindu Nanayakkara - Intel ISEF 2010 Winner and other team members
Ganindu Nanayakkara of Ananda College, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka who represented SLSEF through JIY competition of IESL won First Place - Intel ISEF Grand Award for Computer Science category and several other prizes and the other team members of ISEFteam were felicitated by MoE during the launch of Intel skoool.lk web portal at an official ceremony held at the MoE Auditorium. Heartiest Congraduations to Ganindu and other team mebers!!
sch.lk Domain Registrations tops 2000
Domain name registrations under sch.lk domain through the SchoolNet Online Domain Registration System tops 2000 on 17th July 2010. Read More UNESCO Science Olympiad 2010
Deadline : 25th July 2010
Web Development Software and Joomla Howto
Schools hosting their web sites on SchoolNet can now download the most popular web site development software (E.g. Joomla & Drupal) directly to your Schools' web folder. School IT Administrators: Just login to SchoolNet Administrator Panel and follow the instructions there. Also we have prepared a "Joomla How To" for Schools developing their web sites using it.
Innovative Teachers' and Students' Competition 2010 - Extension of Deadlines for Submission
- The deadline to submit the Students' software within the school -30/06/2010
- The deadline to submit the Teachers' software to Provincial Project Office (EKSP) - 30/06/2010
- The deadline to submit the Students' evaluated software to Provincial Project Office (EKSP) - 31/07/2010
Mailing List Support now available for Schools
Pathfinder - Innovative Schools Program - 2010
Guide in Sinhala /English
National Level School ICT Competition 2010 Circular in Sinhala /Tamil , Document Set Innovative Teachers' and Students' Competition 2010 Circular in Sinhala /Tamil. Poster
New Web Hosting Framework @ SchoolNet [16th March 2010] As announced earlier, we have experienced a security compromise within our present hosting framework. Most of the sites are now back online and SchoolNet NOC will be contacting individual schools for full restoration of the affected sites. We have made this opportunity to move into a much more secure and scalable hosting framework. Web folder concept has been dropped in favour of FTP/Secure Shell access to each web site. More information will follow soon. New WebMail Client at SchoolNet Tired of using existing webmail clients @ SchoolNet? Try SchoolNet RoundCube Webmail client and feel the difference. It is very fast and has a sleek interface that is similar to Thunderbird, Yahoo! mail. IDEA Challenge 2010 Deadline for Submission : 23rd April 2010. Download Application forms
Application forms for Junior Inventor of the Year 2010 Circular /Application Forms
Temporary Unavailability of Web Hosting Services for Schools [[22nd February 2010] We have discovered a security compromise that has taken place on 19th February 2010 - Friday night. At the moment we are investigating the matter further. Current findings indicate that there is some data loss and some of the backup files have been affected as well. We will be restoring the available data from the backups and NOC staff will be contacting individual schools to update them the exact impact of this event on their school web site. [Read more.. ] Stop Spreading of Dengue Education Circular on Dengue (Sinhala/Tamil)/Dengue Control Programme (Sinhala) Video on Dengue Control (Flash - 47MB-watch using vlc player)/DVD format - 896 MB )
SchoolNet hosts Ubuntu Releases and Archive Mirror SchoolNet is now hosting Ubuntu Releases and Archive Mirror. With this a long felt need of local Linux community has been addressed. Linux Users can now get updates or download new releases from these mirrors. SchoolNet launches Moodle Network In addition to the primary online Learning Management Server (LMS), LMS for each province has been setup and networking feature among these LMS has been activated. SchoolNet launches FTP Server SchoolNet now hosts a FTP server which contains many educational resources and the latest releases of Open Source software. Accessis available through both http and ftp. Past Notices
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