Well, today I visited the BETT show at Excel in London and, as a result, today I joined EduGeek.
I wonder what other BETT show visitors made of it?
I made a beeline for and particularly enjoyed the event 'Technology and How We Learn' where Armand D'Angour, Bette Chambers and Susan Greenfield gave us their take on what 'educational software/programming' ought to be aiming for. Highly though provoking.
Brave and outspoken, I particularly enjoyed Bette Chambers (Uni York and Johns Hopkins) urg
A departure from my normal blog topics to something even more relevant to a lot of schools than my normal writings.
Introduction
SIMS is a School Management database, written and supported by Capita Education Services. 6 months has passed since I was invited to join Capita at their Annual Conference to see and write about forthcoming changes, as well as report back on the year (and ask the awkward questions from the community). In this post, Im going to pick up on SIMS Learning Gateway (SLG
Welcome to Animated Trouble's 1st blog
I'm the network manager in a school in hertfordshire and have been for 6 years - Now moving into the iPad area requested by teachers is a challenge in themselves! just how do you add in a piece of technology designed for single user to a windows network! When in a meeting with apple the IT team explained how we could use VDI to make use of current programs and networks to make use of Window and Apple and move forward - the response from apple baffled us
Well, my first post on my Edugeek blog!! I have had the account since January 2010 and never even knew there was a Blogging platform, built in to the site!
I have loved Edugeek and its forums / blogs since I went to BETT in January 2010 (hence joining then!), and I am currently mega-excited (yes, I know, a little sad!) about BETT this year, as I am going up on Thursday.
What makes it better this year, is that I am taking a group of Year 13 BTEC students with me! This should be fun, and
I woke up this morning and thougt to myself when will it end. Working as a ICT Tech in a school is great but it looks like I may have do do more Outgoings (food fuel gas electric mortgage)- doing nice things = still cant afford to live.
Gas prices keep going up petrol keeps going up cost of living keeps going up wages stay the same.
My parter told me to sell myself I told her none would buy a body like this lol.
Never mind off to earn some more penny's.
This post is a continuation of my battle to compelte a cohesive intranet; and some more ramblings about Sharepoint. Its turned into a monster of a project this one. The external single sign on (SSO) was a breeze - thanks to Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) - but this presented an issue - internal or external, you would be faced with a logon screen. Not ideal - internally we wanted a double SSO which would use your Active Directory logon session to SSO with the TMG HTTP session.
Lets
I am really looking forward to the launch of the new LMS for wordpress users - Learn Dash.
It will work with ANY wordpress theme so you can just plug straight in and start building the courses and assigning/registering users.
Personally, I find WP more user friendly to setup and maintain than Moodle, so this will suit me.
For those interested WordPress LMS | Learning Management System Built on WP
All the best.
OK Maybe it is just my school but does anyone else have staff who can trash thumb drives at will?
I am now the proud owner of a number of returned sticks because they are no longer being recognised by our PC's or laptops. Have a Verbatim Store N Go drive sitting in my home machine (Win 7 64) now and it is just flashing away. Explorer etc. can see it and allocate a drive letter but you can't access it. Got an XP machine at school to eventually bring it up in Disk Manager and it said the drive
Just leaving this here in case anybody comes up against the same problem in future....
I wanted to give a member of staff read-only access to Staff Contracts in SIMS.net. (Autumn 2012 release, 7.148)
None of the built-in groups in System Manager seemed to offer the level of access I wanted, so I created my own.
I granted the group read-only access to staff details (by selecting "Staff" from the permissions list and clicking "Set View").
However, when the user logged on and opened the
This being a new blog series I figured I was meant to update on time and stick to my promises for at least another three weeks
So, following on from last week's introduction and tip on searching the Windows 7 Start Menu, this week is about pinning shortcuts to the Start Menu for quick access: ICT Tip 028 - Pin to Start Menu.doc
It's quick, it's easy, it's worth showing people. As ever you are free to steal, borrow, adapt and re-use, without attribution, so long as you make no money off it
JPEG/JPG is the acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. This image file format compresses the images and reduces their size up to 5% of their original size, and thus makes the images apt for websites, emails, and image editing tools. Moreover, most of the digital cameras and other image capturing devices click images in JPEG format.
Apart from high usability of a JPEG image file, many times users encounter situations in which, their JPEG image gets corrupt. Generally a corrupt JP
Its been a long time since I last wrote about Sharepoint - the platform for our Intranet; but now with the rest of the ongoing projects nearing completion - I've been able to return to this monster of a project.
Introduction
So, lets go back to the start and show what the end goal was.
1. Intranet Portal - containing Departmental, Staff and Student Areas. Department areas would have staff and student storage as well as news, events, discussions, blogs and all the usual suspects
2. Book
Well that didn't take long. Someone's asked for the XP & 2003 tips before I'd even gotten into work this morning, so here you go: XP2003.zip
Included in this little zip file are:
Locking Your Computer
Changing Your Password
Zooming
Changing Keyboard Layout
Internet Explorer Tabs
Resizing Pictures in Office (for smaller file sizes)
Folders in Outlook
As before, feel free to steal, remix, adapt & share, so long as you don't start profiteering off it all. Enjoy
For the past couple of years, barring a hiatus when I was too damned busy getting 2008R2 set up on a Hyper-V cluster with System Center, I've been writing up brief weekly tips and emailing them round to all our staff. Less than a page of A4 (usually), pointing out one small but useful tip for using a computer. It's a friendly way of reminding people we're here and slowly training staff without them realising I'm on a secret campaign to make them all more IT-literate.
It suddenly struck me the
I haven't posted a blog in a while... So, have a short bit of randomness.
So, a while back, while at a CC3 training doodah, I started talking with one of the techs. Turns out he works at the school near to where I live.
From what I gathered he was new to tech support, so we swapped details and I said to ask if he wasn't sure about anything* [i think I also mentioned EduGeek as well.]
Now, I'm getting emails/phone calls every so often asking about things and I'm giving out advice wher
It’s a sad day today. Ever since Christmas morning and the kids began to play with their new (well, second hand but new to them) Wii, it has become obvious that it was now redundant.
The media PC, the stalwart of living room entertainment for well over 4 years has to go. To be honest, it’s been on the cards since we got a Tivo box earlier in the year.
We’ve had a media PC in the house since about 2004 when I used an old Athlon powered Shuttle PC to run Media Portal (MEDIAPORTAL - a HTPC Media
Those who follow my blogs will know that I run a Thin Client section of my network - powered by Windows Thin PC (aka Windows 7 lite... it runs NT6.1) with Server 2008 R2.
This post follows http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/thescar...nt-part-2.html and
Introduction
Last time out on RDS, we set up Single Sign on, so that our users would log onto a Windows Thin PC as themselves, and changed the shell from "explorer.exe" so that instead a Remote Desktop session was triggered. This would automatic
It has become hard nowadays to find quality business accountants in small scale industries. But the issue has evolved by the continuous ignorance of having accounting experts hired for the company on a permanent basis. Most of the companies start looking for business health check experts only when they are undergoing a crisis in terms of legal proceedings associated with the business. It is important to pay more attention towards the financial function of the company rather than looking for last
For those who have just upgraded to the final release of SP1 you will have found the client needs an upgrade. You can do this my one if these methods:
1. Auto upgrade SCCM 2012 Clients
2. Use the client upgrade package
Step 1 would be easier, but for devices that go offline for long periods will not upgrade as well. If you use the deployment package and let the software install outside of maintenance windows it will get to all your machines better. Also step 1 will not give to the reporti
Purchasing toner cartridges for your office is an important part of the regular stationary required in the office. If you are having high usage of printer in the office, it is best to seek discount from the providers and keep important focus over the quality of printer ink that is best for your work. We are going to discuss some important tips for choosing printer ink for your office or other daily purposes.
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Hi All,
Quick bit of background:
I am currently using a QNAP TS-459U which has 4x1TB HDD that are configured as Raid 5, this stores the whole schools backup. As everyone who works in a secondary school/medium sized buisness knows this isnt alot to backup everyones personal areas and shared areas even if you have scheduled incremental backups.
I am looking at either using another NAS unit with larger disk space or even open to another solution as long as its cost effective.
Whats everyo
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One good item to give to clients as a promotional item, freebie or giveaway, and/or supplementary product is a brochure holder. Finally, take advantage of the effectiveness of useful items, such as a brochure holder in marketing your brand. As they are visible in the workplace and essential work supplies, they make great promotional tools for advertising your business. Your brand and logo on these items is an immediate billboard for your products or services. Integrating your co
