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Six Nations: Wales v Scotland

Well what do I say about that game - Wales were awful in the first half whilst Scotland imploded in the secon half.   Scotland didn't need to make mistakes - they shouldn't have had anyone sent off. It was sheer stupidity.   The discussion as to whether the Referee should have let Scotland kick off is one that may go on for a while - but he did so that's that. Scotland could have kicked straight out and the game would have been over - but.....   .... they didn't and Wales played on to score w

garethEds

garethEds

Our Windows 7 Journey

Some fellow Edugeekers may have notice my presence on the Windows 7 forums recently; we're seriously looking into Win7 for September 2010.   This has been accelerated by issues we've had with the CSE Workspace system during an actual exam. Members of SMT and the ICT Teaching faculty have made noises that it was time to look for an alternative.   We've got Windows 2003 domain, but we introduced a Windows 2008 Domain Controller (on our XenServer) last Summer so with RSAT installed on a Windows

FragglePete

FragglePete

'Counterfactual' Thinkers Are More Motivated and Analytical, Study Suggests

So says a report on Science Daily   Counterfactual thinking is thinking about things that might have happened that didn't. Counter to the facts I suppose.   CF thinking more typically occurs after an event that has a negative result. The "What if" factor.   The researchers discovered that reality has more favourable meanings when students had actively considered alternative possibilities.   Such a trait would be an advantage in our field. Things do go wrong and the ability to consider poss

browolf

browolf

In Soviet Library...

...you stick pins in marshmellow caterpillars. Wait I don't think I got the little Internet meme correct there.   Some may recall my previous blog entry of why the education secotor is so enjoyable. The discovery of this little chap when cleaning up after the afterschool crowd further reinforces this. How random but cute!

CAM

CAM in Amusement

That time of Year: Six Nations

Being a proud Welshman, it's that time of year again - the Rugby Six Nations. The yearly round of rugby internationals. The series of matches that doesn't really mean anything unless we beat the English.   Kelly Jones sang "As long as we beat the English, we don't care" and as much as quite a few people on here are English and I risk the flames - it is true.   The Welsh play England on Saturday and as usual it will be this game that the nation of Wales will base it's mood for the rest of the y

garethEds

garethEds

Single Status - Job Descriptions

Don't know if anyone will be able to help me but please respond if you can. I'm looking for a job description/person specification for an IT Coordinator/Manager across a group of schools. One that has been evaluated against the Single Status requirement.

LynAJohnson

LynAJohnson

Extreme Webserver Hosting

Recently, I was asked by the Headteacher to look into using a centralised system for the internal school display. I settled on Xibo, a system I could set up for little or no cost to the school. Unfortunately I lacked a machine to test it on.   The end result is a working Xibo install running on a Ubuntu-based Apache webserver. This proof-of-concept test server is installed on my...memory stick?   No fast hard disk, no large space to store files, just an 8Gb memory stick plugged into a random o

CAM

CAM in Technical

my long weekend

My weekend was great, it started thursday with a day off work, nice. Snow's brill.   Friday i went upto Bolton, leaving at 4AM, up at 3, to do a videoshoot with 'After The Ordeal' and sitcomsoldiers. Emence times. Great fun. came back in the snow. Literally were driving ack in the van and drove from clearness into full on snow blizzard - couldn't see the road markings. went back to bed at 2.   Sat and Sun i boarded part of the loft with insulation and 18mm chip boards - had to move 5 junction

mjs_mjs

mjs_mjs

The Weather, How Frightful!

First of all a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone on Edugeek. A new year has begun and schools are enjoying their first day back to work, but 2010 looks set to start as 2009 ended.   Already there has been a lot of closures accross the country due to snow. More looks set to arrive tonight (if it hasn't already) and that means more risk of school closure. It is best to test your notification systems now rather then later, bearing in mind how much strain your school websites w

CAM

CAM

St Vincent linking with Bucks schools...

Had Bucks meeting last week in High Wycombe and the 8 heads chosen to go to St Vincent & Grenadines are all fab and full of ideas.   We've also had more than sixty applications from local authorities to link four of their schools with schools in Latin America, India and Sri Lanka, the panel to choose the 25 successful applications is on Jan 7th.   The delegation is going in at the highest possible level so all the materials they share will be properly suited to curriculum requirements. I'

lizhitchcock

lizhitchcock

Java updates

I hate it when software changes from something relatively straightforward to something a nightmare. It's easier just to stick to r10 we already have deploying. Another piece of non-uptodate software hardly makes a difference in the scheme of underpatched xp and office2k.

browolf

browolf

Testbase

*Deep breath*   Hands up who uses Testbase. Hands up who likes installing Testbase. I thought so. Its apt that the name is abbreviated to TB as it provokes a coughing fit everytime I have to deal with it.   I am so sick of this ridiculous program that when the Deputy asked for me to install the latest version it was prefixed by profuse apologies.   So here I am trying to install issue 13 on CC4. First port of call was to visit the TB site and get hold of the instructions for CC3; the proces

sparkeh

sparkeh

Innovation Management

Probably not that relevant to all ... but worth having a look at and a think.   http://grumbledook.com/2009/12/06/innovation-management/   It would also be worth looking at TeachMeet EdTechRoundUp 2009 as there were so many ideas there that it is hard to summarise.

GrumbleDook

GrumbleDook




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