FN-GM Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Hi I have been looking at the job description of a job i am interested in and this is included The ICT facilities are first class with over £400,000 spent on facilities such as over 350 computers for 550 students, interactive whiteboards in all classrooms and a totally wireless network. Totally Wireless Network, don't like the sound of that!
Butuz Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Sounds like a sloooow network and a biiiig headache! Andrew
plock Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 They're surely just referring to their whole network accessible wirelessly? From that I presume they don't have differnt VLAN's and so forth.
richard.thomas Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 I was thinking what plock said.. Would have been admin staff that typed out the description maybe?
mckeder Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Ouch, a full wireless network. Thats got to suck!
FN-GM Posted October 17, 2007 Author Posted October 17, 2007 I was thinking what plock said.. Would have been admin staff that typed out the description maybe? Possibly
Oops_my_bad Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 its the "interactive whiteboards in each classroom" bit that makes my stomach turn :pukeleft:
Oops_my_bad Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Never hurts to try and email the existing IT people directly if you're unsure of the wording
plock Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 We have interactive whiteboards in all rooms, they're not too much of a headach! We also have our Data VLAN accessable wirelessly, again no real bother. We run a Cisco WLAN Controller with RADIUS and TACACS.
enjay Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 They're surely just referring to their whole network accessible wirelessly? Either that or they mean that the entire site is covered by their WiFi signal. The job description/advert was more than likely written by Head / Bursar / admin person who might not fully understand the technology or the correct terminology Or of course, they have gone completely wireless (some consultant probably told them it was a good thing to do).
apeo Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 Generally dont have problems with interactive white boards here and most of our classrooms have em. I must admit im not keen on ActiveWhiteboards as they are annoying but fortunately we dont have many and the rest are Smartboards. Hope they do mean wireless access is available and not 350 laptops with wireless network... that would really sux.
plock Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 I must admit im not keen on ActiveWhiteboards as they are annoying but fortunately we dont have many and the rest are Smartboards. I agree - luckily all our interactive whiteboards are SmartBoard.
forcryingoutloud Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 WHat probs. are you having with the Active boards? We've got around 30+ here and apart from teachers writing on them with permanent and dry wipe markers we don't have any problems with them.
Oops_my_bad Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 WHat probs. are you having with the Active boards? We've got around 30+ here and apart from teachers writing on them with permanent and dry wipe markers we don't have any problems with them. apart from changing bulbs and filters and clearing timers all the time? At one point I even had to embark up a ~40ft scaffold! 8O I must be the most expensive bulb changer in the country
enjay Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 At one point I even had to embark up a ~40ft scaffold! Sorry, how is that the fault of the Activboard? The fact that you chose/had to put it all the way up there is hardly a product design flaw (not least because whatever brand you bought would have to be 40ft up).
torledo Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Hi I have been looking at the job description of a job i am interested in and this is included The ICT facilities are first class with over £400,000 spent on facilities such as over 350 computers for 550 students, interactive whiteboards in all classrooms and a totally wireless network. Totally Wireless Network, don't like the sound of that! I think they mean total wireless network coverage. Not a totally wireless network, hahahah....Sack the copy writer!!
Oops_my_bad Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Sorry, how is that the fault of the Activboard? The fact that you chose/had to put it all the way up there is hardly a product design flaw (not least because whatever brand you bought would have to be 40ft up). It's whoever hair-brained idea it was to put it up ~5 years before I started working there
torledo Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 WHat probs. are you having with the Active boards? We've got around 30+ here and apart from teachers writing on them with permanent and dry wipe markers we don't have any problems with them. Ahh, the stupidity.... Reminds me of a story I heard from a whiteboard installer. They were called out to a school where the IT tech was having a problem with aligning the board - it was a promethean so it had a slightly different aspect ratio to their projector which I presume was 4:3. Anyway this numpty hadn't twigged the difference and so tried to cover the entire board anyway. End result the picture went over the edge of the board. And when the installers asked him to show them how he aligned the board he promtply took the pen and starting pressing on the first corner which meant he was pressing on the wall!!! about a foot away from the board
gwendes Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 @ Nick - LOL Just the thought of an IWB taking responsibility for it's faults... YAY for Friday!
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