of environment where we can experience ubiquitous access to the internet that will in turn support the things we do as confident, capable, life-long learners. Hi Derek I couldn't agree more in terms of the need for wireless access in particular. This is the means by which the world can get to our students and our students can become resources to the world once they have broadband in place. Interestingly I wonder if some our biggest schools are the ones who have underestimated this the most because they have been most constrained by access. Regardless there have been some interesting decisions about this over the past few years even within the same budget area of ICT or e-learning. Schools who have invested in servers, workstations, Interactive whiteboards over networks. Some of the change needs to be a repositioing of spending with funds already allocated to ICT. It is our leaders that need to future focus and for our leading learners to show them what that might look like. The lack of provision is also an indicator of perception and percieved value. At ISTE in San Diego one thing I noted was the need to become more sophisticated and ambitous for student capability. A standards focus is a focus on the floor rather than the ceiling and means that we can get by without giving our students the access and the challenge to create their own relevancy. Ooops bit of a rave but we need to be BRAVE. Derek, this is