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EduGeek V6 is Go!!!!
It’s finally here…almost! This is a little heads-up to let you all know that it is planned that EduGeek will be receiving its much-anticipated upgrade to EduGeek v6.0 is coming in the next week. We will be doing a full test this weekend 15th-16th March if the final checks are okay and dont present any issue's we will look to migrate but if anything comes up it will be in the following week. We are just going through some extra testing and checks and will update here with an ETA.
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EduGeek Christmas 2023 Message
We made it to the end of yet another year! Right now, across the world, desktops are being powered down, projectors turned off and servers given a stern eye in case they decide to do their own thing over the Christmas holidays once you’ve turned off the lights (we’ve all been there!). This year has seen an almost return to whatever passes for pre-covid normal. We had the great pleasure of seeing you all in person, not only at BETT in March but also at our first EDIT Conf since 2019 in Leeds i
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BETT 2023 Raffle Results
Thanks to all of you that came over to see us on our stand at BETT for a chat, to rest your legs, eat chocolates and indulge in lunchtime pizza! It was great to see so many of you again, both old faces and new. Hopefully we shall see more of you at BETT in January 2024 - only 9 months to go! (rail strikes and other factors not withstanding!). If you were one of those who gave us your details to be entered into the raffle then today could be your lucky day! Please note that we shal
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Merry Christmas 2022
Usually, our Xmas message is a very up-beat round-up of the year with events and other things to look back on from the past year with positivity, but I do feel that 2022 had been sent as a lesson to us all as to how far we can be tested. There were positives however, with BETT finally opening its doors after a two year break (although only one show!) to host a very busy, if much reduced, expo in late March. It was very strange to be able to walk across the entire show in under two mi
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200,000 Threads!
Well, this crept up on us! Just over 17 years since EduGeek went live we have now hit 200,000 threads! Containing over 1.8 million posts of helpful advice, lively discussion, and fun threads. This is a very big anniversary. From what started as a hobby site with the intention of perhaps providing a little home for up to 200 school techies, we have now ballooned to over 108,000 members and millions of visits per year. To say this was unexpected back in 2005 would be an understatement.
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Here we are once more, at the end of a year that turned out to be a very good LARP-ing of Groundhog Day for most of us, we seem to be back right where we were this time last year. Still, we can all take pride in the act that most of us are now in the situation that we can change our working practices at the drop of a hat, work from wherever you might be and have processes in place to adapt to circumstances rapidly. And that should make you all feel proud as I don’t think many have realised
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EduGeek to take part in the Check it out! show - 28th Sept 2021
This is just a quick heads-up that EduGeek will be taking part in the September 2021 Check It Out! show hosted by Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (Twitter - @AlKingsley_Edu and @ICTEvangelist) from NetSupport on Tuesday the 28th September at 7PM (UK time). Dos_Box will be taking part in the show and it promises to be a fun event. We may even have some news about the new site for you all! This is a great show that gives educators and others in the EdTech sector a platform to present the
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The EduGeek 2020 Christmas Message
Usually, we’d start off our annual Xmas message by congratulating you all on a job well done throughout the year and hoping you all have a great Christmas holidays. This year that feels rather inadequate. No one could have predicted just how things would turn out at the beginning of 2020, and for possibly the first time ever, your skills, knowledge, hard work and inventiveness throughout the initial lockdown period and through the re-opening of the schools have not gone unnoticed by the wider e
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EduGeek Christmas 2019 Message
You can almost hear the tinsel and smell the sleigh bells, so it must be that time of year again. Yes, that’s right, the lucky ones of you will already be desk deep in Quality Street wrappers (other brands available), donning Christmas jumpers of varying levels of hideous and not watching that clock on your wall/desktop/wrist at all. So, let all of us here at EduGeek wish all of you a great Christmas break and thank you all once more for the help and sense of community you provide to each ot
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100,000 Members - WooHoo!!!
Well, this snuck up on us a bit! In our pre-occupation with the site upgrade we had almost taken our eye off the ball and let this not so small milestone fly past us. So here we are, a tad over 14 years into life, over 1.6 million posts spread over 181,000 threads, 12 BETT’s and 10 ISTE’s under our belt, many, many millions of visits each year and an ever growing and vibrant community full of the most helpful, knowledgeable (and often patient) professional techies you will find anywhere on th
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EduGeek Christmas Message 2018
‘Another year over…’ And here we are once more, desktops shut down, servers beginning to idle and cloud-based services untouched. It’s a time to wind down, wonder if you have eaten far too much chocolate already and ready your digestive system for the upcoming barrage of treats and large meals. And as such, we’d just like to say, once more, thank you all. Thank you for your sense of community. Thank you for your humour. Thank you for your support. Thank you to our sponsors for making
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The EduGeek Christmas 2017 Message
Here we are once more at the end of another year and we know many of you are now anxiously clock watching and waiting to get away for the Christmas holidays whilst hoping something important doesn’t go ‘pop!’ before the final bell. And we can’t blame you, it’s been a very busy year for all of us we suspect, and the new year is going to bring increasing demands upon us as GDPR kicks in and budgets are squeezed ever tighter. For that you deserve to take it easy, so go home have a drink of yo
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GDPR forum, EDIT 2017 Videos & Slides
We'd just like to say a (slightly) belated thank you to all those who had attended EDIT the other week. It was a great day and certainly one of the best EDIT confs we have had to date, which also means we'll really have to push the boat out next time! Due to all the upcoming GDPR questions and issues we have created a new forum specifically for data handling and GDPR questions. View the new forum: Data Protection & Information Handling Please find attached below the various PowerPoints
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The EduGeek Christmas Message 2016
We’re here, the last week of work for 2016 is finally upon us and we here at EduGeek have no doubt that you are either currently running around trying to sort out final bits of work, barricaded in your offices sobbing into a half empty tin of Quality Streets or preparing the survival bunker for 2017. Or you could simply be spending your time explaining to staff that having 1000 kids all hammering the internet means that no one gets any kind of decent bandwidth So to ease you out of the year a
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EduGeek Site Upgrade News
EduGeek Site Upgrade News It’s finally here…almost! This is a little heads-up to let you all know that (fingers crossed) we shall be upgrading EduGeek to a whole new platform in the very near future. We will be moving away from our current (and quite long in the tooth) vBulletin 4 platform to a whole new shiny Invision Power Suite 4.x (IPS) based site which will allow us to offer you a whole new bunch of modern features and plug-ins. Why are we moving? As some of you may be
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FTB Infinity Evolved Server - Competition!
Server address: mc.edugeek.net:25566 FTB Infinity Evolved can be downloaded via the Curse launcher, or the legacy FTB Launcher. In order to encourage some building and some fun, this server is going to be a little different - as there is a competition. Prizes First prize - A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Second prize - A BBC micro:bit Runner up - A Minecraft plushy I reserve the right to substitute the prize for something of equivalent value, should the original p
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EduGeek and Smoothwall at ISTE 2016
As the saying goes, ‘No rest for the wicked’! We are, once more, packing our bags, as well as a whole raft of assorted geekery required to setup a tech stand at a trade show, and are off to take part in the ISTE Conference in Denver, Colorado. The conference and expo takes place from the 26th June to the 29th and once more we shall be sharing a booth (#1524) with Smoothwall and are looking forwards to a frantic two and a half days at the Colorado Convention Centre where we shall be mee
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Announcing the Official Edugeek Game Servers - Minecraft and more.
EduGeek is again hosting its own Minecraft server, for the use of any and all members of the site who wish to play. Hopefully the first of a number of gaming servers. The server is now running Resonant Rise: Mainline, available via the ATLauncher. All the optional mods are installed except EiraIRC. You can pick between JourneyMap and VoxelMap. To log in to the server, you will first need to update your profile, adding your Minecraft username to the relevant field. The whitelist wi
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EduGeek Mobile App Beta Testers needed!
We are working on new versions of the EduGeek iOS and Android app's are we are looking for more testers. If you would like to join either of these groups please follow the steps below: Android: Please fill in this survey and we will email you a link to join the beta testing program asap. iOS: Please fill in this survey to allow us to add you to our test pool as the iTunes App store requires manual steps for us to enable access to test. Once we have our test app approved by Apple you wi
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The EduGeek Christmas 2015 Message
Here we are once more at the end of another year, and one that will see this Christmas message go up on the VBulletin based EduGeek for the last time, but more on that later. For most it has been a fun packed year with Windows 10 finally arriving and proving to be much better received than Window 8 and with the added benefit that it came free for home/personal upgrades. So, Yay Microsoft! On the EduGeek front it has been a year of us waiting with baited breath as Invision Power Suite 4 was fin
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DalekSek is giving away his LastPass Win!
DalekSek has kindly decided to give his LastPass Premium he won on the EduGeek competition. To win go to his thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/157982-lastpass-compitition.html and follow the instructions below before 1pm Monday:
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Happy SysAdmin Day 2015 - Now here is a prize
Happy SysAdmin Day to all techs and SysAdmin's out there. We know at times working in IT in education can be a thankless job but we would like to offer a few prizes to all of you out there to appreciate the tireless hours all of you provide to help the greater good in education and other areas. EDIT: Here is a little song for you all: The first competition is a simple one, post a reply here before the Tuesday 00:00 (UK) and you have entered (only 1 entry). The prizes for the competitio
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EduGeek is 10 years old!
We are 10!! In the chaos of this year's planned site migration and preparing for our ISTE trip later in the month we almost let this not-so-insignificant little milestone pass us by. It’s been a very long ride from our very early days, when I expected no more than 200 people to join up, to just the other week when we surpassed 80,000 members (we blinked and missed that too!). I went from answering emails at 1am, just to keep up, to quitting my job to run EduGeek full time (and dragging
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BETT Awards 2015
BETT held their annual awards ceremony on Wednesday night handing out awards for great examples of educational tech, software and support. The categories and winners were: Early Years Digital Content: Day Two Productions - The Traditional Storyteller Apps Primary Digital Content Rising Stars - Switched on Computing Secondary, FE & Skills Digital Content Soundbitlearning UK Ltd - GCSEPod Best Whole Course Curriculum Content 3P Learning - Mathletics ICT Tools for Learning
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EduGeek Christmas Message 2014
Well, here we are once more at the end of another year which we are sure for most of you has been the usual round of hectic fire-fighting, network upgrades and often under-appreciated effort. Don’t worry, we here at EduGeek know how hard you all work and, if your input in the forums is anything to go by, your jobs have been harder than ever before. Hopefully at least some of you will be working in offices containing many gifts of chocolate and other Christmas treats So what's coming in th
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