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there's a good piece in the New York Review of Books The Crisis & What to Do About It - The New York Review of Books

With nearly 1500 users I'm hoping to avoid going down that path.

Is there a way to query a Moodle site to find out who hasn't yet logged in? We went live in September and I need to find the pockets of resistance and obliterate them.

Thanks guys. I have to admit that I panicked at the time and didn't think clearly. The pupil in question is sorted. Hope you all have a good xmas.

Well done Zak. And it falls on a Friday. Watch that ice when you come out of the pub tonight, you might fall over.

tooble - YouTube on your iPod

perhaps not the right title. A pupil was having trouble with a pen drive being recognized on a machine, so I logged on as network admin and let the computer recognize it, opened the pen drive to check it was working and somehow managed to delete a folder. Without realizing this I logged off and allowed the pupil to log on again, and that was when she realized the folder was missing. There are no backups of the folder in school or at home. Is this folder lost forever or is there a recycle bin somewhere where I could locate this?

...which may not affect the managed services tide too much, but I believe she's the partner of Alastair Campbell (yes that Alastair). Her email address is at the foot of the page. Fiona Millar: Should the contractor who designs and builds a school clean it and manage the ICT? | Education | The Guardian

The lad who used to run our repro dept got a sabbatical for a year while he went to Australia. Someone was taken on as temp for a year but because he didn't come back, the post was readvertised and she landed the job full time. I suppose it all depends on the head. In all honesty it's up to you. I feel that you've only one life to live and there's a lot to see and do out there.

now that you mention it, I recall bossman saying something along those lines, but possibly related to something else, which is why I didn't make the connection. thanks for the prod.

Last week I was called to the D&T room to unblock a printer and saw a notice on a computer monitor, "This computer isn't working. Do not use." It hadn't been reported to us (the keyboard was unplugged). On Wednesday I took my daughter for a university interview, and while she was being shown round the physics dept and the campus I went to the library to do some work. In the library was a machine with a notice, "This computer isn't working. It will probably never work again." We don't have a helpdesk in school (teacher apathy) but i would have thought a university would find a helpdesk essential. Helpdesk or not, how do you get staff to report faults?

I think I should be told.

...or a 55 year old techie?

Bit late in the day, but Wendy M Grossman on the heavy-handed tactics picture agencies use when pursuing payment | Technology | The Guardian might interest you

From the Calderdale website Children and Young People’s Service Brighouse High School Finkil Street, Brighouse HD6 2NY Tel: 01484 404839 11 - 18 Foundation Comprehensive A Specialist School in Business & Enterprise and Applied Learning and a Leading Edge School ICT Technician Scale 1/2 £12,989 - £15,247 pa, 37 hpw Post Ref: ED478 NJC posts subject to Single Status Job Evaluation Required as soon as possible. We are seeking an enthusiastic and well qualified IT Technician to join our hardworking IT technical team. The role of IT Technician is one of a fully integrated member of staff and plays an important role in the life of the school. This individual must have a wide experience of ICT and the ability to run windows XP in a client/server environment. In addition, the individual must have good fault diagnosis and resolution skills and work equally well on their own initiative and as part of a team. The ability to communicate with a wide variety of people is essential. Please telephone Cath Lloyd, Confidential Secretary (01484 404839) for further details and an application pack or email [email protected] The information can also be downloaded from the school website www.brighouse.calderdale.sch.uk| Closing date: Thursday, 4 December 2008.

Always enjoyed pumpkin soup after halloween myself.

saw this in Sunday's Observer

Our LEA was offering to pay 3 years subs for Uniservity if we took it on board, but it turned out they were going to withold part of our Harnessing Technology grant to cover the costs. You don't get owt fer nowt.

you don't need to reverse it, the words are "save the world"

The podcasting sounds useful. Do you have any details as to how you go about this?

I believe you can do this, but I'm not sure how.

I'd be interested in feedback from anyone who has installed a network version of Stop Motion Pro.

I think what Broc is trying to say is that staff appointed to handle IT after everybody else has been Tuped won't have any protection. I may be wrong.

I think some of you may be interested in this link I found on the Moodle site - Using Moodle book - MoodleDocs It's available as a free pdf download from the Moodle site, or you can buy it from Amazon. The choice is yours.

Look in Site Admin>Front Page>Front Page Roles and see if you have the teachers in there. If you have, get rid of them. They should only have the teacher roles in their faculty courses.