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EduGeek Preston Conference 2011
It's that time of year again when we invite you all to make you way up, down and across to Preston in Lancashire on Thursday 2nd of June for a day of informed talks from companies specialising in education and other areas, socialising and meeting the site sponsors and being pampered by us. This year we also have a change of venue as we have now adopted the University of Central Lancashire's Westleigh Conference Centre as our new venue location this year. Just a 5 minutes’ drive from the Ibis
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Site change - new prefix style
We have introduced a tweaked prefix style when you attempt to post a new topic in a forum with prefix's. The new style (shown below) should make it clear and easy to set an appropriate prefix for your topic. We will be rolling more prefix's out to other forums soon as we plan to make heavy use of this feature in the future. If you have any problems please post here and I will look for a fix. Also if you have any suggestions for new prefixes please post them here We do plan to release th
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New Casio LED/Laser Projector Ranges
At the end of March, Casio announced 3 new ranges of the Hybrid LED / Laser projectors which many on Edugeek have been buying and / or using since they launched at BETT 2010. Of the 3 ranges, one was the short throw that was launched at BETT 2011 to much interest from members, especially as it was a significant increase in size over its siblings from the A range which people have been fitting since around March 2010, but it fulfilled the missing gap in the market from them. The other two
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NetSupport Release NetSupport Assist for Mac and Linux
We've just received a press pack from one of our sponsors, NetSupport, announcing the release of a new addition to their product range. NetSupport Assist is designed to work with Mac and Linux environments and give teachers a similar level of control that NetSupport School did for Windows. The press release can be seen below and TBH, being a former NetSupport Manager user myself it's nice to see a more fully featured system/client for Mac and Linux boxes available which ties in with existing Net
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Articles
The end of 'top sliced' provided software and services. What to do next?
Now that the Harnessing Technology grant has largely been redistributed to fund free schools it suddenly raises the question, what are schools to do now to replace all of the free stuff that was often 'given' to them? For many years schools were provided with anti-virus software, internet connections online resources and other packages all paid for by money from the Harnessing Technology grant which often had a slice of the funding been by LEA's and RBC's before the remaining funds were distribu
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BSF - The James Review
Last week Sebastion James, the group operations director at Dixons released an independant report on the Building Schools for the Future project and concluded that 30% of the money spent could have been saved. The first link is to the orgional report and the one's beneath are media reactions: http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/c/capital%20review%20final%20report%20april%202011.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13012596 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374926/La
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RM Profits down as UK education budget redistribution takes effect
According to The Register here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/rm_pre_close_trading_statement/ To be fair, it is probably not just RM feeling the pinch since the Harnessing Technology grant was redistributed to fund 'free' schools, but many UK based educational IT suppliers will also be affected by this, especially as many of the free schools are still in the planning stages I doubt wether they have yet budgeted or planned for ICT spending yet. It will be interesting however to see i
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Thanks for everything Russ
As you can see by today’s banner we are losing an admin. Russ Dyas (Russdev) is leaving the world of local govt employ and joining the ranks at Impero. Russ has been with us since the early days, in fact his member number of 35 and the fact he joined a mere 10 days after we went live always made me wonder how he found us in the first place. He was a leading figure in introducing EduGeek to the bosses of most of the UK's leading ICT suppliers and companies and provided us with access to people t
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Spotify Malware Alert
Spotify has taken down it's third-party advertising network following reports that malware was being downloaded by rogue adverts since Thursday. According to Netcraft, users of the ad-supported free client were vulnerable to the attack which included Java-based drive-by downloads of malicious software on to user's computers. Those who have used the free version of Spotify in the past few days should run virus scans. Schools who allow access to Spotify may want to check their computer labs
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Events
EduGeek Conference 2011 - Initial Details
We've been beavering away at this for some time now and have some information we can impart to you to enable you to plan for this event. The conf will be held on the 2nd June 2011 at the Westleigh Conference Centre Preston, a mere 5 minutes’ drive from the Preston North Ibis Hotel, negating the need to hire coaches this year. Please note we will not be opening bookings for this event for a couple of weeks yet, so please don't send us PM's or emails asking to be added to the list as we shall be
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Virtualisation Webcast
ComputerWorld UK are to hold a free live webcast entitled 'Virtualisation: Maximising efficiency, flexibility and cost savings' at 10am on the 29th March and the first 100 registrants will be entered into a draw for an iPad 2! You can register here - the webcast has happened. I link to watch it on demand will be coming soon.
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Data Protection Blunder For York University
York University has attracted the unwanted gaze of the Information Commissioner after accidentally publishing private information about students on the institution's website. An A-Level exams enquiry tool allowed access to more then just a student's results, with E-Mail addresses, telephone numbers and even personal details about emergency contacts being exposed through the site. It is estimated that 148 student records were accessed through the enquiry tool but no figures have been revealed
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