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EduGeek
Tech Support - By Schools, For Schools
I know some of you might already recognise the phrase including in the title, as it is a central tenet of the ICT Register - DEFUNCT, but the same ethos is wide spread within the education community. It doesn't matter whether you are talking about school staff getting together at TeachMeets, having in-depth discussions via twitter through things like #ukedchat, online communities such as EduGeek.net or more local groups such as NorthantsBLT, the growing role of schools taking ownership of their
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EduGeek
EduGeek and the server breach
On Thursday the 10th of November we became aware of a server breach and because of that as a precaution we have reset everyones passwords (to get a fresh password please go to Password Recovery), if you use your previous EduGeek password on any other sites we recommend you change those account passwords too. We have written a guide on getting started with LastPass here to help aid password management and EduGeek will be giving away some LastPass Premium 1 year subscriptions via a raffle/draw fo
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EduGeek
Getting started with LastPass password management
LastPass is a free password management utility that is not only easy to use but powerful and secure at the same time. It offers secure password generation, storage and automatic completion of password fields on all of your favourite web sites as well as form completion and many other features.As we at EduGeek take the security of our members’ accounts very seriously we have created this guide to help you keep them as secure as possible. Installation and configuration of LastPass will take y
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Articles
An EduGeek round-up of free art packages
The question ‘What is the best free art program for my primary/middle/high school?’ seems to be cropping with increasing regularity on the forums here at EduGeek, and, as ever the same names get trotted out, so I thought it would be best if we created a little guide to let you all see what is available out there.During my research into this I was quite surprised to see just how many free packages there are, but surprisingly most of these are in the ‘high end’ bracket with little for early years
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EduGeek
KB25303 - Group Policy Preferences do not apply to Internet Explorer 9 (Hotfix)
What this hotfix basically does is add support for IE9 to Group Policy Preferences in a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain. For further details, please see this post on the Group Policy Center blog or the Microsoft KB article linked below. KB2530309 - Internet Explorer Group Policy Preferences do not apply to Internet Explorer 9 in a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain environment Nonworking scenario yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.ms [pid=0x3a0,tid=0xb18] {683F7AD7-E782-4232-8A6D-F22431F12DB5} [b][color=#
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Think ... erm ... Different (part 1)
The following article takes a look at the use of iPads as mobile devices in schools and is based on attending the Apple Birmingham Leadership Summit at Birmingham Science Park on 19th October, the pre-event discussions on EduGeek.net about questions which should be asked, discussions on Dr Brian Bandey’s eSafety Law in Education group on LinkedIn and from talking with colleagues in a range of schools across the UK. For reference, this article is not intended to spark any pro- / anti-Apple discu
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Events
Microsoft IT Academy Summit 2011 @ Reading HQ
Microsoft are hosting their annual IT Academy Summit at their Reading HQ Offices today. A thread is available here for questions to ask at the event. Update: Slides from the event are available here http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/blogs/schools/ita-summit-2011-slides.aspx Myself (@TheScarfedOne), and James (@EduTech) are attending - and keeping the Twitter feed up to date. If you want to see what is going on anf get involved - the hash tag to follow is #ITASUM11. We are keeping an ey
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Critical updates for Java - 6 Update 29 and 7 Update 1 released
You won't want to skip this one... Java SE Runtime 6u29 (Click here for JDK) Download (Direct Links: 32-bit / 64-bit) / Release Notes Java SE Runtime 7u1 (Click here for JDK) Download (Direct Links: 32-bit / 64-bit) / Release Notes http://i.imgur.com/QQdFV.png
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EduGeek
Dennis Ritchie Dies Aged 70
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-founder of the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Mr Ritchie was arguably one of the most influential figures in the early days of computing and laid the foundations for many of today's technologies before they were even conceived. If you use a computer today, chances are you are using something built on his ideas from decades ago. Visit our Dennis Ritchie thread here.
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EduGeek
Steve Jobs Dies Aged 56
Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of the highly succesful technology firm Apple, has died aged 56. News broke in the early hours of the morning with a statement on Apple's website describing him as "a visionary and creative genius." The cause of death is believed to be the end of a long running battle with cancer. A thread regarding Mr Jobs' passing is available here.
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EduGeek
Edugeek hits the 40,000 members mark
Well it's happened slightly quicker than we thought it would, and today we have hit the 40,000 members mark, a mere 10 months after seeing 30,000 last December. This is great news for us all as not only is your advice and opinion being read by an ever expanding global audience, but we can see schools in Africa, Asia and the Middle East all now joining in and receiving the kind of helpful support and advice that many can only dream of at a local level. You should all be very proud of yourselves
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EduGeek
Windows 8 tweet opinion infographic
Mashwork has produced an infographic of tweets about Windows 8. Based on 65,968 tweets between June 15th and September 22nd they produced the following image which is quite interesting reading. Overall feedback seems good but its early days with the dev beta. Source: http://mashwork.com/blog/?p=1241
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