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Learning Without Frontiers Conference Offer
The Learning Without Frontiers Conference (formerly the Handheld Learning Conference) have offered EduGeek members tickets at the discounted rate of 20% which will save £180 per delegate. Simply use the code 'edugeek-lwf' when registering here: Learning Without Frontiers - Registration The program and list of speakers for the event can be found here: Learning Without Frontiers - Confirmed Speakers It looks to be a very exciting event indeed.
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Stripping down the RM Slate 100
Well, the temptation was too much to bare. With a limited number of screwdrivers I dug in. Unfortunately I had left my decent electronic screwdrivers at the office and won't be able to go beyond that basics of opening up the chassis for now. 1. Turn the slate over so the screen is facing down. 2. Applying downward pressure, push up (gently) on the small strip at the top of the unit, and gently remove. 3. On the exposed interior top you will see two screws. One on the left and one on
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RM Slate 100 - Initial Review
It arrived this morning in a very large looking box. Within which was another, much smaller box, within which was the tablet PC I’ve been waiting for since its announcement just over a month ago. To be honest, that was almost all that was in the box, apart from a mains lead and recovery DVD. Now over the past few months I’ve been playing with a lot of Android based tablets and iPads, almost all of which have impressed me greatly (apart from a few cheap Android tablets). Now it is the turn of one
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BETT 2011 - EduGeek Wallpaper
Sysman has waved his magic wand and come up with this amazing wallpaper. We shall also be giving away some posters on this theme at BETT, which I'm sure will brighten any office
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Video Nasty For Devon Primary
A primary school in Abbotsham, Devon has been thrust into the media spotlight after a teacher accidentally played a clip from an adult film to her class according to The Register. The video clip was accidentally played to the class after the teacher, who hasn't been named, brought a VHS Player in to the school to play an educational tape after the school's one had broken down. Unfortunately the VHS player belonging to the teacher had an adult film loaded and began playing the explicit content
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Important Changes to Microsoft Licensing
There have been many folk who have had many a rant about the cost of licences from the various companies out there ... whether it is the cost ... whether it is the arguments about the suitability of proprietary software (even if it does work and work well too!) ... or the complexity about the various options that are out there. And many of us would agree because *we* are the people who have done that rant ... and occasionally there is light at the end of the tunnel. Over the last few weeks
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Sharepoint Prize Draw and Conference Discount
Dave Coleman from Twynham College and Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge have some good news. The first bit is about the Sharepoint Evolution event from earlier in the year. If you weren't able to make it you can have a box set of the DVDs via a prize draw at Dave's blog. Please visit SharePointEduTech 2010 Evolution Conference DVD Box Set Prize Draw for more details. Also, there are other Sharepoint events which go on throughout the year and next year the European Best Practices Conference
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Impero v3.0 Released
Good news for all of you Impero users and fans out there. Impero has released version 3 of its network and classroom management software. It's rather exciting for us at EduGeek as we had some input into it's features and layout, and I look forwards to doing a complete review of it soon. You can also visit them at BETT on stand G63 (not far from us in fact). In the mean time you can see more here: http://www.imperov3.co.uk/
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Fake AV Push for Royal Marriage
Scammers have jumped on the bandwagon for the recently announced royal marriage to push Fake Antivirus software to web users. As part of a campaign to poison search results for popular topics, criminals have been tricking search engines into linking to malicious pages that attempt to persuade users into installing a fake update for Mozilla Firefox. The fake update installs malicious software on to the user's computer which displays harrassing messages to purchase antivirus software from the s
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Need some support for deploying Windows 7?
Article in partnership with: Microsoft UK Schools Blog Although I'm afraid I can't offer to send you a top-techie from Microsoft to help you with rolling out Windows 7 in your school, I can offer a good second best, thanks to the TechNet team. They got together with some of the product and support gurus on Windows 7, and created a big batch of videos on Windows 7 for IT Managers, containing very practical advice for people deploying Windows 7. http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/C
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Christmas & BETT Must Be Coming
It must be that time of year as manufactures start to release various new products in time for both the Christmas and BETT 2011. Both Asus & Smart Technologies have new releases. SMART Technologies has introduced the SMART Board 800 interactive whiteboard series according to Smart ‘a next-generation series that will provide the most natural and intuitive user experience yet’. The 800 series supports multiuser writing and common multitouch gestures currently recognised in Microsoft® Wi
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Quango Axe Comes Down
The BBC have published a list of organisations that are due to be cut as part of the public sector spending review. These organisations are supported by the government but not directly run by them (AKA Quangos). Of interest to those in the education sector are the following public bodies that will be cut: - General Teaching Council - Independant Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy - Qualification and curriculum Development Agency - School Food Trust Other public bodies at risk includ
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