Working online with staff around the state is a whole lot easier now OnePortal and the Learning Place's iConnect are here.

iConnect is the department's new web conference system

Just launched, iConnect is the department's new web conference system and it provides staff and students with a powerful way to collaborate and learn.

With iConnect, teachers can hold lessons and coordinate projects with students, while all staff can connect with their school and non-school work colleagues.

Using a web camera, people can interact with each other and talk in real time, just as they would in person.

Teachers are already using iConnect with their students to bridge distances and connect online with experts and other students.

A group of students is working with an artist in New York to create scenes from the book, The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar.

The students, from a small school, would not normally be taught advanced brush work and collage techniques but they are now iConnect is here.

Also, staff from around the state have been using iConnect to bring themselves up to speed on the new Right to Information laws.