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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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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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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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EduGeek takes a quick look at Essa Academy in Bolton
The newly built Essa Academy At the beginning of December I had accepted an invite to visit the newly built Essa Academy in Bolton as a guest of both the academy and Meru Networks and so it was a week later I found myself taking a short trip down the M61 to visit them. The academy is a BSF build and has only been open for 6 weeks at this point, but it was clear a lot of work had already gone into ensuring everything was ready for the off. The academy is home to 854 pupils and 136 staf
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Events
BETT 2012 - 30,372 visitors!
I have just been sent a PR statement about the numbers from this years BETT. BETT had 30,372* visitors over the 4 days which made it the highest attended BETT so far. This was an increase of 3.84% from last year. Next years BETT is at the ExCel exhibition centre which I am told provides extra space and also is now at the end of January (30th - 2nd Feb) which hopefully will mean more can attend rather than having it in the first week of term for many. They also say current bookings for next yea
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BETT Travel Alerts
BETT 2012 is upon us but what does the transport network in London have in store? This post is for guidance only and correct at the time of publishing. Please follow the words etched into every London commuter's head and check before you travel! Weekday Alterations: DISTRICT LINE: No service on the Kensington Olympia section until 1015 when a special events service will run. Elsiegee40 has made an excellent post here explaining the changes. Those driving may want to avoid the A4 Hammersmith
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EduGeek
Merry Christmas from all at EduGeek
Well, it's the end of another year and this one certainly seems to have flown by! Everyone here at EduGeek would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year and thank you all for your continued support. So, before you all disappear to enjoy (in no particular order), vast quantities of food, chocolate, beer/wine/spirits, gadgets, games and, oh yes! families, let us here at Edugeek pass on our best wishes to our members, sponsors and those companies who help us out in the background
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Windows Live SkyDrive gets an Update
Windows Live SkyDrive gets a huge update to addresskey feedback, You should expect to see the first NEW SkyDrive release in a few hours. Follow SkyDrive on Twitter so that you can be one of the first people to know when it is live. You can find further information here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/11/29/skydrive-gets-simple-app-centric-sharing-for-office-powerful-file-management-html5-upload-other-updates.aspx - James.
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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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