Internal messaging

[chrbb]

What do you use for internal messaging, I've been asked to look into it I think we are looking for a messaging service (cheap as poss) that teachers can communicate with each other, although if the teacher's laptop is attached to the smartboard they won't want the message to pop up for the whole class to read!

[mrforgetful]

We just use email.

[webman]

There's a few threads on this:

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2989

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6400

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7518

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2874

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=407

[Guest]

Take alook at Openfire + Spark IM

[localzuk]

There are problems with both a jabber based system and with email.

 

With email you have the problem that staff never check it,

With jabber it could pop up in front of their smartboard software - but this can be controlled by educating them to use the 'away' status in a decent jabber client which suppresses popups when it is set.

[Geoff]

There's been previous discussions on this

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7518

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6400

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3937

 

People seemed to settle on Wildfire as being best server software.

 

http://www.jivesoftware.org/

 

Along with PSI on the clients (The Spark client on the Jivesoftware site is written in Java and uh...slow).

 

http://psi.affinix.com/

[plexer]

Wildfire is now openfire.

 

Ben

[chrbb]

Thanks for the prompt replies, apologies for not checking previous posts - I'm 'interneted out' after trying to upload our school choir movie to the BBC's Joseph site - me and millions bringing the bbc server to a grinding halt!

 

Cheers.

[Guest]

Going off topic a bit.

 

Chrbb How long did it take for your movie to become active? After 2 days of atempting to get the thing on the bbc site it has yet to appear!!

[chrbb]

It took ages to get to the uploading page, 3 attempts to upload despite *wmv being accepted files I finally got it accept *mpeg.

 

And after all that no it's not appeared yet! The site seems to be getting slower and slower obviously they didn't anticipate so much interest.

[mac_shinobi]

what video clip is this and where is the url for it ?

[Rozzer]

We have setup wildfire but not really told anyone about it. What is everyones opinion on giving staff access to IM systems? I am trying to put together a argument to staff on why this will be helpful etc.

 

Ross

[chrbb]

Joseph

It's part of that 'Joseph search for a star we can't think what else to put on for our licence fee payers on a Sat night' program.

bring back more Life on Mars and the Hustle!

[MkII]

We have setup wildfire but not really told anyone about it. What is everyones opinion on giving staff access to IM systems? I am trying to put together a argument to staff on why this will be helpful etc.

 

Ross

 

We want to use it for call outs. Saving the teachers from leaving a class unnatended to get to the one phone per department.

 

Our use would be for urgent messages from staff to admin, so setting the client to not pop up would be fine. I'd want the clients to auto log on as the teacher logs in.

[john]

Looking into MS Office Live Communication Server, as it ties in nicely with Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Sharepoint 2007

[mattx]

If you use Spark - I knocked up a quick and dirty control type script which will turn it on / off on clients. This is for student use only as our IT teacher is going to experiment with it for a class and wanted to control it. The thread is here:

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8395

[plexer]

I've just been testing openfire on a windows server using ldap and psi as the client and I could not get psi to log me on.

 

Install spark and it worked perfectly first time.

 

Ben

[localzuk]

What were you putting in as your username? The full [email protected]in or just blah?

[plexer]

Tried everything it could have just been a funked up psi install.

 

With spark bnorcutt@server worked where server is the name of the openfire server.

 

Ben

[thom]

I know about 2 messaging applications developed by the OU

BuddySpace - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/buddyspace/

and MSG - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/msg/about/

they look pretty cool but I haven't got the time to check them out properly

[complete_phreak]

There's been previous discussions on this

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7518

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6400

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3937

 

People seemed to settle on Wildfire as being best server software.

 

http://www.jivesoftware.org/

 

Along with PSI on the clients (The Spark client on the Jivesoftware site is written in Java and uh...slow).

 

http://psi.affinix.com/

Pandion Jabber Client any better?