beeswax

I'll make my offer again then, as Edugeek NORTH (here's looking at you webman) is being held at my (so to speak) CLC I'm willing to offer sleeping space at my house (east wing) for up to 5 people if they need to stay overnight tuesday or wednesday or both. pm me, but be aware that I'll be on holiday from tomorrow (saturday 8th to saturday 15th) I'll be taking bookings up until easter monday. beeswax

Oh, the power!

when you say split site, are the 2 servers part of the same domain, physically joined or completely separate?

- what bit doesn't work in firefox? I did it all in firefox (maybe Opera/konqueror actually) as I don't have IE on my workstation. firefox wouldn't handle it for me

before you start on this course I assume that all your machines have been passed as fit for purpose by RM? I should also save your breath arguing, it's going to be compulsory by 2008, so get used to it now. you've obviously visited the forum, and there's a lot of useful information there. there's a lot of moaning, and most of it's for a very good reason. a lot of us have had to install it during term time, and quite frankly, you can do without the constant interruptions. schools in our area (Rochdale) have a training day tomorrow, Friday, so there are no kids in. if it's the same for you I should start by installing the APS on the server of your choice and then having the weekend to wait while RM approve your school (that takes me back) and having a read through the all the paperwork. though you think some areas may not concern you, I suggest you read it all. By tuesday you should get the all clear from RM. try and set up a control machine from where you can access the aps console via IE (it won't work with Firefox). make a brief note of everything you do. there have been a few patches/updates released recently and they may not be included on your installation cd. it's a good idea to register on the KS3 pilot website and try and get emails directed to you, especially if you're solely responsible for rolling this out. with the best will in the world, other people don't always forward vital emails to you because they don't understand the importance of them. The RM people are reasonably good at geting back to you, whether answering your web based queries, or calling you on the phone. This should get you to Thursday and the holiday break. enjoy your time off and get back the following tuesday refreshed and ready to plunge into the deep blue lagoon that is the KS3 pilot. check your diary for wednesday though - if you haven't got EDUGEEK CONFERENCE NORTH written in there, then register now. there's still time. and you can talk in more detail the intricacies of the KS3 pilot (we hope to have a KS3 pilot black belt 3rd dan attending) beeswax

I'm going to try and concede defeat here gracefully. /

you're a southerner?

not all scots or not all southerners?

they probably think you southerners are jessies. lol beeswax

Could you move *my* car, as in move someone elses car for them - not could you move your car? I hope you have a lake onsite... :twisted: yes, it was the teacher's car

just this minute, "Could you move my car, it seems to be blocking in the minibus?"

...and this is for Webman. Restaurants. We've got Northern Soul, Star of the North, Northern Lights. lol

I should add that if any of you wanted to come up but decided against because you couldn't afford a place to stay overnight then you're welcome to stay at our house. We can run to about 5 extra bodies. PM me

I suppopse you'll want a recommendation or two? beeswax

if you'll just pass your glasses over here...

I was about to post this 10 mins ago until we lost internet connection....but that's another story there's a little bit of "you build it..." as far as I'm concerned I'm not looking for awards. I design a school website to be practical, easily navigable, ok, it helps if it looks good. the intended audience is, staff, pupils, parents and prospective parents. there are 2 main maethods of getting the attention of parents, letters home (which, hopefully, ther website will mostly do away with) and notices in the local paper in the schools' diary section, or, if they haven't filled all their space, an article in the paper. I've always found that if you can provide 90% of the story then a journalist will run with it. but that's only my view. can anybody else help?

what are the passes worth on the black market?

I had 3 faculties reply within the first week (the English Dept. wants to change the way the site looks as well...) I'm still waiting for the rest 3 weeks later. When I spoke to a deputy head way back in November about when it would be ready and he suggested easter...The site's ready to go, but it would just be a collection of blank pages apart from headers and footers.

http://www.educatr.com/

thanks for that Mark. I'll see if I can't find a quiet minute to read it. beeswax

haven't had a chance to read it all but so far it's been interesting. beeswax

"Microsoft Learning Gateway £20000 approx?" is that a mis-type, or the correct price? beeswax

we're currently using worldclient for our school email (staff only nothing set up for pupils yet) and we're looking to either move to exchange or go with a private company/provider. exploring this I realized that I hadn't a clue about what a school is legally required to do. data protection, storing emails etc, all spring to mind, and there are probably a dozen more. I'm going to try the becta site shortly, but if anyone who has any experience of this could help with some links I'd be grateful. beeswax

Picture Viewer/Internet Explorer

had a heads up from RM just now and they say there's no difference between running the anon tests and the familiarisation tests, still couldn't explain why it didn't work on one machine but did on the one next to it (all taken from the same image).