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Microsoft needs your help to shape MS IT in schools
Do you want to help shape Microsoft IT in schools? Are you a network manager or technician working in a Windows based environment? In that case, we need you! Microsoft in conjunction with EduGeek are working on a whitepaper and need the input from experienced educational technical staff. This is your chance to make a difference and help promote best practice in schools throughout the UK and for this we are asking for 10 EduGeek members to come on board and assist in the production of this pa
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Stone Computers 25th Anniversary Tour
For those of you who are not aware, Stone Computers are currently doing a rather funky roadshow in a rather big truck up and down England and Wales showing off their newest technologies and devices including: Brand new solutions from Stone including Unity, Assist, Connected, Integrum and Serverless Innovative Microsoft solutions including Azure, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility Suite The latest and greatest Windows 10 devices from the likes of Acer, Microsof
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PSA: Block the latest .NET update on your Exchange Servers
From the Exchange Team blog... http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2016/02/10/on-net-framework-4-6-1-and-exchange-compatibility.aspx Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\WU] "BlockNetFramework461"=dword:00000001
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Microsoft reply to your MoU questions
A bit of background first….Microsoft has had an UK Schools Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DfE for over 10 years, which includes UK specific discounts and licensing concessions for on-premises software purchased through a Volume Licensing Agreement. In January, we renewed the MoU under a slightly different name – the ‘Education Cloud Transition Agreement’ – the reason for the change of name is to indicate that this is a transition agreement, to allow UK Schools the time to move to Cloud
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The EduGeek/VeryPC Sock Givaway!
Finally! After the gods of production, shipping and customs had all conspired against us, VeryPC has finally taken delivery of the socks they had especially made and we were supposed to give away at BETT three weeks ago. Now, if you want to grab yourself a pair of these (see pics below) amazing pieces of foot art all you have to do is email @VeryPC – who have very kindly offered to handle the shipping for us - at [email protected] with the following information: Your name Address S
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RM Neon EduGeek Scripting Challenge Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the RM Neon Edugeek Scripting competition. RM Education joined with EduGeek to launch a challenge to see who is the King or Queen of Scripts. The competition celebrates the release of RM Neon, an exciting new cloud solution from RM Education, designed to revolutionise the way that you manage your school’s IT. Overall Winner: @Ephelyon Script: Script that enables schools to import class/set lists from SIMS into Exchange as distribution groups. Prize: P
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A letter of thanks from VeryPC
Dear EduGeekers, As you are probably already aware because of our stylish green ‘homepage takeover’ theme on EduGeek this week, VeryPC have just turned 10 years old. Looking both back and forward at this landmark anniversary, we want to extend our thanks for all the support, feedback and involvement from our old, new and future customers, friends, colleagues and foes who have helped us build what I believe is a fantastic company and a great place to work. We believe here at VeryPC that
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The RM Neon Scripting Challenge
Could you be one of our scripting champions? RM Education has joined with EduGeek to launch a challenge to see who is the King or Queen of Scripts. The competition coincides with the launch of RM Neon, a new cloud solution from RM Education, designed to revolutionise the way that you manage your school’s IT. Take the challenge for a chance to win a PS4! Here is your chance to show off your scripting skills or have a go for the first time. There are 4 categories that you can enter a scri
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PaperCut Scripting Competition
Our Server 2012 forum sponsors PaperCut are proud to let all of you 'Geekers in on a little secret. They seem to have ordered a few too many Raspberry Pi boards and want to let you have some, but in the true spirit of the EduGeek community, they want to make you earn them. All you have to do to enter is to read their overview below and follow the instructions within for all of the details you require.
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Xirrus - Art of Wifi
Welcome to the Art-of-Wi-Fi UK Schools Competition Help your students develop the creative skills they need for today’s technology-driven economy, including digital art, animation and coding. Simply submit their digital designs to enter the competition and your school could win £10,000! Entries should be based on visual interpretations of the themes ‘How Technology Helps Me Learn’ or ‘The Future Classroom’. Pupils can create art and animations using smartphones, tablets or computers a
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The Importance of Domains
With the every changing world of technology and education we all understand that nothing stands still. With more and more schools becoming Academies, buying a variety of services from a plethora of providers and having direct control of the funds to buy these, schools are generally more discerning about their presence on the World Wide Web. The bold choice to take control of the school's presence can be beneficial for a number of reasons. This change of stance can result in websites which engage
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Internet Safety Talking Point 2
This is my latest article based on Scott McLeod’s 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. Over the next few weeks I am looking at each point to tease apart the ideals behind them, to try to see both sides of the discussion and to share examples about who others have work on the issues. A lot of this will be from a UK-centric position but hopefully it will provide some insight into the similarities and differences with our friends in other countries. Today’s point is about Decision Making
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Internet Safety Talking Point 1
In my last article I republished Scott McLeod’s 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. Over the next few weeks I am looking at each point to tease apart the ideals behind them, to try to see both sides of the discussion and to share examples about who others have work on the issues. A lot of this will be from a UK-centric position but hopefully it will provide some insight into the similarities and differences with our friends in other countries. Today’s point is about responsibility and accou
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To Block or Not to Block, that isn’t the question! (but is a point for discussion)
With kind permission I am reposting Scott McLeod‘s ‘Dangerously Irrelevant’ Blog Post about 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. I will follow this up by looking at each point (one a day perhaps) to strip it down and look at both sides of the point. Please remember that these are talking points and will bring forward a variety of views, depending on personal experience. —————– For Leadership Day 2012, I thought I would gather in one place many of the talking points that I use with princi
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Casio Chris Edit
The Genie and the Lamp: Projectors that never need a new bulb Casio has long been the leader in maintenance-free projectors for schools and universities, with its own Laser & LED Hybrid light source providing years of high-brightness images that never dim and never need expensive replacement lamps. Casio first introduced the Laser & LED Hybrid light source in 2010, and was the first manufacturer to use a solid-state light source instead of traditional and unreliable lamps. The result
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Casio - The Genie and the Lamp
The Genie and the Lamp: Projectors that never need a new bulb For more information visit: www.casio-projectors.eu/uk Casio has long been the leader in maintenance-free projectors for schools and universities, with its own Laser & LED Hybrid light source providing years of high-brightness images that never dim and never need expensive replacement lamps. Casio first introduced the Laser & LED Hybrid light source in 2010, and was the first manufacturer to use a solid-state light sourc
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Battlefield 3 Platoons
If you would like to play Battlefield 3 along with other members of EduGeek you can find out platoons on PC and XBOX. To join the PC platoon Click Here
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Getting started with EduGeek's Minecraft server
Before you can login to the EduGeek Minecraft server you must be whitelisted. To be whitelisted please post your minecraft username in the comments below. Once whitelisted you can connect to Minecraft using: Server Address: minecraft.edugeek.net Server Rules: Do not build near other buildings without permission Do not destroy others buildings and work Shared projects are welcome and should be posted in the Minecraft Forum Also to stay up to date with changes you should sub
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Introducing Frambozenbier
By now most of you will have noticed that we are hosting the Frambozembier Raspberry Pi developers forums and we think it is about high time we let you know a bit more about them and why we have teamed up. Frambozenbier.org is the brainchild of 3 avid open source and electronics enthusiasts: Liam Fraser (@Liam-FB) is the technical lead at Frambozenbier and had already made several Raspberry-Pi tutorials that can be seen on the main RaspberryPi.org website and YouTube. Austin Waddecar (@O
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Raspberry Pi out of the Oven
As you all know by now the long awaited Raspberry Pi launched last week, and although the sudden demand had initially caused the 2 distributors, Farnell and RS Components, websites to choke early on this has now been sorted out, probably due to the fact that the first 10,000 Raspebrry Pi units had sold within about 15 minutes of going on sale. The good news however is that Raspberrypi.org have announced that the production lines will now continue to produce units to demand, so there should be a
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Microsoft Tech.Days UK - 2012
Afternoon All, Registration for a new-look series of Tech.Days UK training events is now open. With a fresh format for 2012, Microsoft will be bringing more learning and networking sessions to your doorstep, wherever you are. And to top it off they have ditched PowerPoint to make every event 100% hands-on collaboration. ;-) Woo! Private Cloud & Virtualisation The Tech.Days IT Pro camp series covers a range of topics around the private cloud and virtualisation, including: •
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BETT - Mr Gove's Speech
It was interesting to finally get to an opening keynote at BETT and it turns out to be Mr Gove, Secretary of State for Education. Having read a few newspaper articles over breakfast most of us knew the basics of what the speech was going to say, but we all know and appreciate that, short of publishing the whole speech in a newspaper, there will always be some element of selective editing ... and some important bits can be missed. I did video the whole speech and will probably do some selectiv
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Apple in Education - iBooks or eBooks?
There is no denying that Apple have actively been part of some interesting changes in education over the years. The Apple Classroom of Tomorrow in the 90s and the present version, ACOT2, combined with projects like Apple Distinguished Schools, Apple Distinguished Educators, Apple Regional Training Centres and Apple Solutions Experts ... and we can always say that Apple have seen schools and children as a valued market, even if they haven't always shown some of their educationalist credentials ..
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The Next Gen Report and the UK Government's Response
If you are in the UK, work in educational IT and have been hiding under a rock, you can't have noticed the flurry of calls being made by Next Gen (a coalition of UK based gaming and media companies) to the govt for the current teaching of IT in schools to be re-worked to reflect to demands of the 21st century and the skills that the 'real' IT industry requires such as the ability to create and understand code amongst other things. To this end, Next Gen have now had their concerns acted upon an
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Think ... erm ... Different : Part 2
Thanks to all for the positive response to part one of the report on the Apple Birmingham Leadership Event. I have tried to continue to be as open as I can about the day, and whilst there is still considerable criticism in some parts about Apple and their strategy on technology, I hope I am giving some insight into how their tools can be used within schools. It is not intended to be a sales pitch but to give people as much information as possible to make decent evaluations on their options. I kn
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