Website design and development
About Internet Technology Services
Internet Technology Services provides website development, site maintenance, and technical support to a select number of clients, mainly in fields related to education.
We are located in Thornbury, Victoria, and most of our clients are situated in Melbourne's inner metropolitan suburbs.
We are able to provide on-site training for your staff in the maintenance of websites, and we specialise in the development of dynamic websites using an Open Source Content Management System called Joomla!
Internet Technology Services is owned and operated by Peter Batchelor. Find out more about Peter here.
An unsolicited endorsement from one of our clients
From time to we get some lovely feedback after a project has been completed, like the following, received from the organiser of STEM 2022, the 7th STEM in Education Conference:
... you spent so much time getting the conference site ready and then being on hand to deal with issues throughout the conference in such a calm way. It was very reassuring that the conference would run smoothly. At our end of year international executive meeting, a few executive members said that it was one of the best run online conferences that they had ever participated in. The fact that you could get the recordings available so quickly after the conference left some executive members in awe at how efficient you were.
We could not have had such a successful conference without your wonderful support!
Janette Bobis
Professor of Mathematics Education
Sydney School of Education and Social Work
The University of Sydney
From CD-ROMs to Online Resource Delivery
We worked on CD-ROM development from 1996 to 2017, specialising in discs for conferences and the education sector, working closely with our clients to ensure that the finished product met all of their requirements, but we now feel that CD-ROMs have had their day.
Putting Professional Learning presentations online
Many of my clients are now making recordings of teacher professional learning presentations and student revision lectures available online. Some are running webinars, using Redback Conferencing or Adobe Connect, while others are recording a session and placing it online either as audio, video, or as a SMIL presentation. There are benefits and disadvantages to all approaches, and I generally recommend keeping one's options open as much as possible.
If I am running a webinar I will also record the audio on my iPhone, using Voice Recorder HD, and if it is a long session I might even point a video camera at the PowerPoint display so that if I have to turn it into a SMIL presentation later I have an easy way of determining when the slide transitions took place. If one of my Macs is being used to display to PowerPoint Slides I will run ScreenFlow to capture the presentation, so that I can see the slide timings, and export the elements I need when creating the online version of the presentation..
Using SMIL in online Professional Learning
In June 2013 I gave a talk on how a W3C standard called Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is being used by a number of my clients, mainly teaching associations in Victoria. For these clients I've been turning PowerPoint slides into SMIL presentations that includes the recorded audio from the session, and the PowerPoint slides as images. My talk also touched on how SMIL presentations like this can be used in Joomla!, in conjunction with Community Builder and CB Subs, to set up a system that allows you to grant access to particular subscribers, for a particular amount of time.