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The following OPI programs receive state funding.

Recommended Computer Hardware and Software

Although you may successfully connect and enter data with older/different equipment and software, we recommend the following to make communicating with OPI as trouble free and secure as possible. You may want to pass this information to your technical staff, if available, to ensure each person's workstation is compatible with our systems.

Looking for a domain name for your school district (MySchool.k12.mt.us)? Contact the University of Montana, Network services at DNS-REQUEST .

Minimum Recommended Computer Hardware

• Apple Macintosh Power Macintosh G4, 500 MHz or greater
  80 GB hard drives
  OS X 10.5.4 (Leopard), OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) operating system
• Intel, 1 GHz or greater
  256 MB RAM, 512 MB RAM or higher recommended
  80 GB hard drives
  Microsoft Windows XP with service pack 2 or Windows 7 operating system

Internet Connectivity

A 256 KB DSL connection per connected machine. T1 or greater recommended.
While modem connectivity will work, users should expect significant delays in page loading and broken transmissions.

In addition to the usual internet ports for Web, FTP, Streaming, etc., you need to have Ports 8000 and 1935 open in order to use our Web file manager to download important documents, videos, and to participate in OPI Webinars .

If your district or school uses a Proxy server, Do Not cache pages from the OPI.MT.GOV domain. Many of our pages are dynamic and you may not get current information or have the ability to subscribe yourself to our list servers.

Web Browsers

Macintosh

Mozilla FireFox version 19.02 or greater
Safari version 6.03 or greater

Windows

Internet Explorer version 8.0 or greater. Version 9 or 10 with Windows 7 recommended.
Mozilla FireFox version 19.02 or greater
Safari version 5.1.7 or greater

PDF Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader or Standard version 7.1 or greater, Version 9 recommended.

Remote Database Access (IRIS)

Macintosh

Citrix Receiver version 11.7.2 or greater

Windows

Citrix Receiver version 3.04 or greater

Video, Audio, Webinar and Podcast Tools

Apple QuickTime version 7.6.6 or greater or any ISMA, ISO compliant MPEG-4 player

Used for viewing OPI and FWP's library of Video-On-Demand and live instructional videos utilizing MPEG-4 Streaming Video, Audio and OPI Radio

iTunes version 11.02 or greater

For subscribing to OPI and FWP PodCasts, and iTunes U.

Adobe Flash version 11.6 or greater for Web based seminars through Adobe Connect.

E-mail Clients

OPI and the State of Montana are relying on e-mail communication more and more. It's essential to have your firewall set to accept e-mail originating from the State of Montana domain, MT.GOV; this would include domains such as METNET.MT.GOV and OPI.MT.GOV.

Macintosh

FirstClass Desktop client (Free from METNET), version 11.063 or greater
Apple Mail client (built-in)
Microsoft Outlook version 14.13 or greater (part of the MS Office 2011 suite for Macintosh)

Windows

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express
Eudora version 6.2 or greater
GroupWise

If you are using Web Based e-mail such as Google Mail, Hotmail or Yahoo for your school's e-mail, it will not work with some of our applications because they are not MAPI compliant. In other words, applications from OPI cannot automatically launch an e-mail message to deliver data back to OPI, when needed.

We offer free e-mail accounts on the Montana Educational Telecommunications network (METNET). We have one-on-one telephone as well as online support, full contact management, calendaring, secure messaging, spam filtering and anti-virus protection. Messages can be retrieved while on the road with Web browser or Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Blackberry Access.
Contact the Internet Services Bureau at 444-1626 to set up accounts for your school personnel and get our free desktop e-mail client.

MACIE - Montana Advisory Council on Indian Education

The next MACIE meeting is scheduled for April 11, 2013 at noon at the Holiday Inn Grand Montana, 5500 Midland Road, Billings.

Agenda

Please let Joan Franke know at (406) 444-3694 or jfranke@mt.gov know if you will be attending.

Preamble:
The Montana Advisory Council on Indian Education has been established by the Office of Public Instruction and the Board of Public Education to act in an advisory role to them in matters affecting the education of Indian students in Montana.

Montana Advisory Council on Indian Education shall advocate for greater cooperation among tribal, state and federal organizations, institutions, groups and agencies for the express purpose of promoting high-quality education and equal educational opportunity for Montana's Indian students.

MACIE Membership:
The composition of the council shall consist of members who are representative of Indian education in the state of Montana. The membership shall be selected in consultation with Indian education organizations, tribes and schools. Each reservation shall be invited to have one representative who is nominated by the Tribal Council.

MACIE Constitution
MACIE Members