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EduGeek @BETT Live Stream Competition
Can’t make it to BETT and at least want a few freebies? Well we have the perfect solution for you! Now our live stream is up and running we are to raffle off five prizes which, we are sure, will make up for you’re not being able to make it to Excel. To enter all we need you to do is to watch our live stream and look for a ‘keyword’ in the video description. Once you have seen the word then please post it in this thread here with the title of each day, e.g. Thursday: EduGeek Comp Entries You
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Welcome to Foldr v4
Foldr brings together your digital resources, school network, cloud services and mobile devices into one seamless, elegant and fun-to-use learning environment. Forget using separate apps and standalone web services - Foldr enables file access, student collaboration, homework management and so much more. Ready for any device they throw at you - Provide access to 'My Documents' and shared drives from any device, on and off campus. - Connect could storage (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox
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EduGeek @ C381 BETT 2017 is (almost) go! We have prizes & pizza!
It’s here, almost! By the time you read this, we at EduGeek will be busying ourselves, packing bags and cases, frantically sorting last minute admin details out and getting ready to make our way to London on Monday to join Smoothwall at the stand (C381) to get it ready for Wednesday morning. And what a stand it will be! I’ll not give any spoilers, but there will be monsters! If you are coming to BETT please do pop by and have a chat, we are always glad to see you and please don’t think
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EduGeek and our Sponsors at BETT 2017
BETT 2017 is almost here, where has the time gone! One minute it’s the end of the summer holidays and the next we’re knee deep in preparation for BETT 2017. From January the 25th to the 28th the world leading suppliers and innovators in the world of Educational IT will be setting up shop at Excel London for 4 days of full on geekery and talks. If you have never been to BETT we would suggest you try and get down there as many of our members can confirm, it’s well worth the visit and an esse
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Windows 10 Creators Update
Following on from last year’s anniversary update, which many saw as primarily as a roll up of bug fixes and optimisations and, yes, the addition of a few new features, Microsoft are to roll out what can be seen as quite a big expansion to Windows 10’s capabilities in the form of the Creators Update. You can see a preview the Creators Update overview at the Microsoft October 2016 Event here. Be warned it’s over 2 hours long, but well worth the viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeVaa
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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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Webinars
Google G Suite Webinar - 08 Dec 2016
A heads up here for all of you who are either running Google Apps, or Chromebooks, or may simply be looking into them. Google are to host a webinar for you all 14:30 on Thursday the 8th December 2016. Information on the content of this webcast can be found below: If you have any questions before the event you would like Google to address please post them below and we'll get them off to Google. Please also note that there should be opportunity at the end of the webinar for a live Q&
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Articles
A year of Windows in Education with EduGeek and Microsoft Education
Here we go! We are very happy to announce that in partnership with Microsoft Education we are to bring you a whole 12 months of Windows 10, Server 2016 and related product goodness, all with the aim of informing, educating and helping you with the more technical aspects of these products. These will take to the form of focused threads (in-depth looks at particular issues involving you all), webinars, seminars and other ‘things’ which we are working on (more on those as and when they are read
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Microsoft’s Set up School PCs App
Microsoft has launched a tool which also allows schools to quickly setup new PC’s using a USB stick with a configured setup file. The tool is designed for simplicity and could be used in smaller networks such as primary networks where enterprise tools are not an option. This must be used at the first-run setup screen (shown below) when you boot a fresh pc for the first time (when using a clean installed PC without preconfigured setup via SCCM etc) Updated with new video https://www.youtub
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Lenovo Software Announces LanSchool V8.0
New LanSchool v8.0 from Lenovo Software Makes Classrooms More Collaborative with Classroom Management Software Lenovo Software today launched LanSchool v8.0, an expanded version of its award-winning classroom technology that promotes collaborative learning while minimizing distractions. Celebrating over 30 years developing classroom management software and powering 1.5 million education devices, v8.0 keeps students engaged and enhances safety in the digital environment. Respondin
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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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EduGeek Members: NetSupport DNA - Exclusive Offer!!
***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS OFFER AND THE TRIAL PERIOD HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL THE 30TH SEPTEMBER 2016*** ***SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE TRIAL HERE*** Exclusive to EduGeek users only, NetSupport is offering a special rate for its education ITAM solution, NetSupport DNA! For a lifetime licence of only £5 per PC (plus £1 optional annual maintenance), IT technicians can benefit from a complete toolbox of features to support the effective management of school, staff and student techn
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