johnwinkley

We are running a project for Becta looking at the information teachers need in order to work out whether a Digital Learning Resource (DLR) would be appropriate to support their teaching. We have some suggestions and thoughts about what this information might be and some initial considerations of how it might be presented. The online survey is at the link below. We would be most grateful if you could find time to contribute. We are interested in the views from educational technologists (teachers and ICT support staff) who have experience of supporting teachers with the selection process. DLR User Requirements We will recognize contributions with a £5 Amazon token to the first 75 respondents (the site will close after that, and by 25th March latest in any event). Thank you! John Winkley [email protected]

My first post on edugeeks, having lurked for a while, firstly just wanted to say thanks for the excellent information that the community provides. More than once over the last six months I've found answers on here that I was struggling to find elsewhere. I have been tracking the discussion about thin client for a while now - I'm involved with a couple of schools in Bradford who are likely to be moving to the BSF solution shortly, which as others have said is a largely thin client (mix of wired desktop and wireless laptop solutions). I have a couple of questions: 1) Graphically intensive rather than "processor intensive" applications are increasingly important to general ICT use in schools, I think. While a small but growing proportion of use is in power applications like photoshop, it's the day to day youtube/newsvideo sites that sees broad curriculum use. My limited technical understanding and research suggests that there are technology improvements coming which reduce the streamed bandwidth from servers to thin clients for this type of content, and use graphics processors in the thin clients to render the video. Anyone know of a good site with a backgrounder in thin client where I could do some reading up? 2) User acceptance testing of thin client seems to be a grey area. I've struggled to identify any tools specifically designed to measure performance on thin client networks/clients, or indeed to find any specifications for what reasonable user performance requirements might be given that the nature of network traffic on thin client is different to "traditional" networks. Does anyone have any experience in this? Thanks, John