If you were asked: - Show me something different.

[StewartKnight]

and how much are they Face-Man?

[ruggie_uk]

My home built intranet system, developed with asp and access databases.

Provides calendar, message board, marking system, SEN database, file store, planning repository.

Built this 4 years ago and it has grown and grown and we are really proud of it, especially as I had no previous web dev experience.

[eean]

Continuous Ink System - networked inkjets with dummy cartridges linked to big pots of ink. We've had it since March - few teething troubles to begin with but means that I no longer care how much people print and I can use colour printing to actually improve learning (giving 6 year olds a colour picture to stick in their book as a stimulus for descriptive writing is much better than a photocopy). Since we got it, it has printed 12000 sheets and has cost us about £70 in ink. Summer will be the big test, if it survives the heat we'll roll them out around the school.

contink (on this forum) is the man to speak to about this.

[t_guest]

AlexB We do a similar sort of thing using our PDAs - sometimes we send them a contact card named 'TURN_PHONE_OFF' which will be displayed on devices once received.

 

 

similar here but we use(phone wand). which when they enter there exam they are searched with this device

 

they try everything to still hide it e.g.

bottle with the bottom cut off to hide the phone lucazade is the most popular because its has the orange skin round it but still picks their phone up muhahaha.you cant escape

[Mr_Jones]

Our Keep Kids Safe system is set-up for all staff in the school.

 

The attendance team use the absence management part of the system to send absence messages.

The non-teaching staff use the group messaging part to text parents about school trips, detentions, football practice, etc...

The teachers use the community reach part of the system to text all other staff with any notices.

 

Apart from that, I guess we're a pretty normal, non-innovative school!! We'd rather let other schools trial stuff and jump on board when it's proven to be effective.

[MK-2]

We'd rather let other schools trial stuff and jump on board when it's proven to be effective.

 

We are that other school! Every new piece of untested software has been trialled with us. Some to good effect (Impero), some not so (Occulus).

 

We have online helpdesk. IM system and online booking system which I guess is becoming pretty standard for a lot of schools now.

 

Loads of stuff I'd like to do but budget restrictions are always against me......which is why the above solutions are all open source:

One or Zero helpdesk

PSI jabber client and Wildfire jabber server

Devizes online booking system (not open source but still free to download)