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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 - Week 3 Results
Well done everyone who has taken part this week, we’ve had a whole load of great captions, but, as always, there can be only 4 winners. So, after much consideration in the mods forum we have decided that the following raised the most grins amongst us. In first place for being very witty and clever (see, being clever isn’t a bad thing kids!) is this caption from @alan-d: 'The Year is 4014 and archaeologists believe they have discovered the birthplace of that much worshipped deity 'Internet Ex
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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 - Week 3
As promised, we have a task that will not take up as much of your valuable time as last weeks. All we want you to do is provide a humorous caption for the photo below. As usual we shall be closing for entries at 2pm (GMT) on Friday and announce the winners between 4 and 5pm the same day. A bit of back story about the picture here. A couple of years back when BETT moved from Olympia to ExCel on the other side of London we didn’t really know the area at all and finding a suitable ho
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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 - Week 2 Winners
It may be that we set the barrier a little high this week! We know that you are rushed, particularly at lunchtimes and it showed by the entries we received, so what we propose is that we roll over the main prize from this week and extend the competition by an extra week with a challenge a bit easier to achieve. Scooby Doo sandwiches anyone? That’s not to say some of you have not tried. In fact last night we had two entries that made us smile. First from @sparkeh for his cuddly toy pizza nig
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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 - Week 2
Here it is, the second week of our 4 week competition and this time we thought we'd treat you all. Or to me more exact, you treat yourselves and after 6 weeks of intense work during the holidays we think you've earned it. What we require from you is to have a nice meal in your office. The nicer the better in fact. We want to see cooked food, tablecloths, plates, cutlery and candles. Or perhaps you prefer some extreme food? Sandwiches a foot tall, baguettes 3 feet long or homemade stack bu
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EduGeek Back to Work Comp: Week 1 Winners
And here they are, the lucky winners of week one of our back to work competition. We’ve had a chat in the mods areas and come up with the following results: 1st: @Lasercat for the claw: (POST) Sometimes the simplest ideas really are the best. We shall be PM’ing you shortly to ask you to pick an envelope with your prize in . 2nd: @Joanne (POST) At last someone finally finding a use for an iPad in a school! For this she wins the powerline adaptor twin pack. . 3rd: @AndrewC (
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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 - Week 1
Here we go, and to start you off we have an easy task to get you rolling. By the time you've read this we guess you are already knee deep in the usual, and not so usual tasks that occur every year without fail when the hoards reappear to undo all of the hard work you've put in over the summer, and, as is often the case, you need to employ special tools for the job. From Philips screwdrivers, LART kits and Fluke testers we know you have them all. What we want you to do is show them to us, o
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The EduGeek Back to Work Competition
Let us offer you all a belated welcome back after what I’m sure, as always, has been a frantic summer with, hopefully, the opportunity to take some much needed time off over the period. We here at EduGeek haven’t been idle either with our migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) now complete – barring a little tweaking – and will allow us to better provide site access to our members in other parts of the world as well as easing the monitoring and management burden at our end. This move also means
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EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014
The EduGeek Back to Work Competition 2014 Let us be the first to welcome you all back after what I’m sure, as always, has been a frantic summer with, hopefully, the opportunity to take some much needed time off over the period. We here at EduGeek haven’t been idle either with our migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) now complete – barring a little tweaking – and will allow us to better provide site access to our members in other parts of the world as well as easing the monitoring and m
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Announcing the new EduGeek Mobile App
EduGeek - The App, part 2 We have just launched the new version of the EduGeek App for those of you on mobiles. Android screenshots will be added as soon as we have a final build which is due any day now. iOS: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/iosapp Android: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/droidapp Kindle: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/kindleapp The app is based on the latest version of Tapatalk and supports push notifications for new replies, pm's and
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Some more 1 Million posts stats
As requested by several of you last week I have been doing some mining through our analytics and can now present some nice graphs showing the growth and decline of certain versions of Windows, Browsers and which O/S's have visited EduGeek over the past 5/6 years. Some make for interesting viewing! So, first off, Windows versions: As you can see, Windows 7 has been 'da bomb' since its launch and has shot head and shoulders above any other Windows versions. Interestingly, see the differe
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EduGeek Reaches 1,000,000 Posts
Well, we've done it. Or, to be more precise, you've done it. Between all 65,500+ of you, EduGeek now has over 1,000,000 posts of helpful advice, assistance, recommendations, rants and lolz within the EduGeek forums and in the process have made countless techies lives throughout the world a lot less stressful. We haven’t even included the tens of thousands of non-members who visit EduGeek each day to get the help they need either. Oh, and if you do lurk and use EduGeek, please join in and share
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EduGeek wins its first award
It was quite a lovely shock to find that I won an award today. [ATTACH=CONFIG]17525[/ATTACH] Last year Naace took the brave step of introducing an award aimed at technical staff in schools. At the time, when speaking with some peers from the technical community, some expressed concern about how a “bunch of teachers and LA folk could ever work out how hard technicians and NMs work” and considering how difficult that can be within schools I can understand that a minority had some scepticism
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Welcome to our new Moderators
Some of you may have noticed the article we published in January about our reaching 100,000 threads within the EduGeek forums, and then posted up some traffic stats that we have built up over the past year. This is something of a milestone, but what we didn’t quite go into detail about what just how busy the forums are and how our ever increasing traffic levels require a quite bit more attention than we admins can now spare. It won’t be long before we start to hit 90,000+ visits per day now (
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Presenting the EduGeek App for Android and iOS
EduGeek - The App We have just launched the EduGeek App for those of you on mobiles. iOS: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/iosapp Android: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/droidapp Kindle: Get it from http://edugeek.me/to/kindleapp The app is based on Tapatalk and supports push notifications for new replies, pm's and more. If you have any problems please post in the Site Problems forum. (Apologies for the US spelling of Fav
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100,000 Threads - Woohoo!!
Wow, and we really do mean WOW! EduGeek now has over 100,000 threads gracing its myriad of forums, and this is a really major milestone for a community like ours in that the rate of thread creation is increasing, as is the membership levels far faster than we had predicted. So we'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who has either started a thread or posted in one. You make it all worthwhile, and without your contributions and questions, EduGeek would not have come
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EduGeek Christmas Message 2012
YAY! Another year over and now it’s time for all of you lovely ‘geekers to kick back and relax over the Christmas holidays in whatever way works best for you. And what a year it’s been for many. You've seen the ever increasing roll out of managed wireless networks running hand-in-hand with BYOD schemes and Windows 7 finally arriving to many of your networks. Just in time for Windows 8 to arrive on the scene. Not to mention the appearance of Macs, iPads and other table devices in ever larger num
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Site Changes: Threads are marked as read when you view them or the threads forum
Due to the recent changes in thread marking having a very love/hate response we shall test the third and final way vBulletin offers to deal with thread marking. The new mode should mark threads inside a forum as read after you view the list and then time out, this should allow threads to be cleared out faster and doesnt come with the cookie issue of the old system although this option is the least used. Post your feedback here, we will run a poll to see what comes out as the most popular.
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Posting Jobs on EduGeek
Please note that anyone wishing to post a vacancy, or post a reply in the jobs forum must abide by the following rules: Only schools may post vacancies for free Agencies or private companies pay a fee of £20 (+VAT) per vacancy. Please use the 'Contact us' link at the bottom of the page to get in touch with us. Please post wage levels with each vacancy Any posts from EduGeek members complaining about wage levels will be removed and an infraction given No posting vacancies by proxy i
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Problems loading the Forum's list
Our Forum's listing page uses a system called jQuery to dynamically load information rather then processing the whole forum's list. If the /forums/ area is blank and all you see is a spinning logo there are a few things you need to check which can cause the forums list not to load. Please check: Javascript is enabled on your browser Adblock/Noscript allow .edugeek.net and .cdngeek.net scripts You net filtering isnt blocking a script Your browser is up to date (Chrome/IE8+/FireFox 10+
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Site Changes: Threads are only marked as read when you view them
To deal with various mobile device issues and our old cookie based thread marking system we have switch to database tracking. This means that unlike before if you don’t read a thread when logged in at work, it will still be unread when you get home. This also means when your signed in via mobile browser/app the unread threads list stays accurate before. How did it work before: vBulletin Manual: vBulletin would use a cookie which was stored locally to track your last visit time which wo
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Welcome to EduGeek v5 - Stage 1
Well we have applied the first part of v5 for you all to enjoy. In Stage 1 we have redesigned the navbar as well as switching to jQuery for forum tab generation along with other features. We will be rolling out the changes for v5 over several stages for the next few days to allow final load testing with real load and complete testing (and sleep). If you experience any issues please try to grab a screenshot and post it in the "Site Problems" forum. Why is this page orange? Microsoft Office
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A little about the upcoming RM Technical Seminars
If you hadn’t noticed, we are currently helping RM Education promote their forthcoming Technical Seminars. These training days are being held throughout England and Wales and cover a range of subjects that are not just related to RM products, and they are £85 + VAT to attend for the day. The seminars include: Managing Apple Devices I am sure many of you now face increasing calls for Apple devices and clients to be integrated into the classroom this seminar should prove extremely useful in g
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Released
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been released to the world, giving users a chance to test the most recent incarnation of the Windows operating system before it's release. The preview also includes the Windows Store where apps will be free of charge during the testing period. Microsoft claims there are over 100,000 changes since the early developer preview was released. Download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview here and pop by the thread on the forums to tell other Edugeekers what you think of
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VLC Media Player v2.0.0 Officially Released
VLC Media Player v2.0 has been officially released which comes with a ton of new features. See below for highlights and download links. * Thanks to Arthur for the heads up. http://i.imgur.com/vLOAZ.pngvv Download / Homepage http://i.imgur.com/fvyct.png
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The BBC Micro 2 - Look what's coming back to the classroom
Last Friday I received a phone call informing me that I had to get myself to the Hack To The Future event being held at Our Ladies Catholic High School in Preston as a matter of urgency because the BBC are to be there and would be unwrapping, for the first time, the BBC Micro 2. So, interest ignited, I quickly re-arranged my Saturday schedule and got myself onto the invite list, as this kind of opportunity couldn't be passed up. A quick mention must be made about Hack To The Future (H2DF). Thi
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