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I've spoken to 6 different people at EasyNet with different stories, i'm getting slightly peeved. Just want to get this resolved... Update after discussions with firstline @ EasyNet 14:25: I asked immediately on the phone could it be a firewall issue and they said no!

Has anyone else faced difficulties receiving e-mails today? I have called up and apparently after some filtering they've managed to stop us being able to receive e-mails? They mentioned we could have to change IP? Anyone else facing this issue?

Hello, Can anyone recommend a domain re-seller that works with the school buying process, we can't just buy with a CC and i'm a bit short on wonga this month so I can't front and get receipts. We are after .co.uk domains initially for 1 year, we will need CP access ideally with URL forwarding. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks - Nevermind - bought now, thanks!

Thankfully I don't teach, I just see first hand what actually happens. Students who want to leave school and are just going through the motions in year 11 because parents are making them go wouldn't care if you had a dancing clown with a dragon that shoots flowers through its nose... they just dont want to be in school, they will not comply with boundaries when told to use own phones or school laptops - but that's a different matter all together and going off-topic.

Purely from an IT perspective... I can just see this descending into madness, kids calling us in to do things on phones that we have no idea about... cover lessons being assigned the task of 'research on your phone'... i can just see it now... 30 year 7 pupils with phones that can't do alot else other than text.. haha Of course I can be overly pessimistic as it'd be more work for me but I think the next concern is... in certain areas kids having a phone capable of doing tasks like surf the web, play music & video and the like are more likely to get stolen both in and out of school, this then leads to insurance issues (a school surely can't insure for kids phones??), facilities to store a phone & the worst for me... provisioning for network access where needed. Argh!!! Although I do agree with above if this is a carefully planned, strictly monitored environment for use then that's one part of the problem solved. From a teaching perspective... You can nearly do everything on a phone you can on a laptop it must be utilised to improve learning From a students perspective... let's listen to music, text our friends and check facebook with our 3g conn. Try this with a year 11 bottom set maths class of girls with no interest in maths but interested in organising what they're doing after school - set boundaries & being eagle eyed wont help!

If anyone can extend an invite my way i'd be most grateful:cool: I'll send you nice e-mails for a week.

Innovation doesn't concern itself with the implementation that's our job... We get this alot from the younger teachers, they have great ideas - like webcam discussion between classrooms, when the teacher is not a specialist on the subject... by the time the session is initiated on whatever program it'd use it works out quicker to walk between the classes! ... was still asked to go buy 20 webcam for all staff concerned, they haven't used them once.

Would recommend both NC10 & NC20 (bigger, easier for typing) - both very good, can take a drop on the floor too

Atom processors are good for power consumption but on more intensive tasks then can lack a bit of oomph. I suppose they're easier to steal and harder to replace parts on as they're so small - but you get a warranty! Although, no complaints really just yet - I am buying more to replace the loaning laptops we have, bye-bye travelmates, wont be missed!

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You could have a scheduled task with VBS to do what you're after but it's a lot of messing around. Presumably 09 = year of intake, that's never going to change so you wouldn't need to move the folder anyway? The only thing I could understand you needing to change is group memberships if you've named the groups year 7 and the like (could avoid by giving groups the intake year :-P). Then for the home dir/folder creation create a template user with the \\path\to\folder\%username% add the groups and just 'copy' each user like the guys have said :-)

If these are still available can you let me know?

With the Magicards you can print directly from Word, you could maybe setup a datasource to the MIS and merge it that way, I don't honestly know how that'd work for photos though.

Depends where you are ability-wise. 291 is definitely the best one to get out of the way as the time it will take to study and ensure you understand. My order was: 290 -> 270 -> 291 -> 620 290 and 270 would be good to take close together as they overlap a bit.

Are you certain it's the same case for all people or people within a specific OU? I made a boo-boo recently where i set a gpo within an OU which was already getting settings from the parent OU and they both seemedcancelled each other out, consequently a whole year group didn't get a H drive for 20 minutes until i'd worked out what I had done. Everyother set of users were fine! As soon as removed the child OUs GPO it worked fine :'(

Very true but other than in-store health & safety, learning the specifics of that retail store you probably wont get a formal qual from it. If you're chasing money (it's very difficult not to) it probably is very tempting to work in a shop as opposed to undertake an apprenticeship. I would look at it as on-site learning as opposed to a job, you wont be expected to re-write Windows ME nor construct a network by yourself but you may get to watch how people do tougher tasks and will learn how to do things by doing as opposed to by reading, it may suit the less academic better - we're not all gods of math & furthermore some people just don't like being educated in schools & colleges. People often wonder the best way to get into IT - this would certainly be it, doing quals through training providers with no prior knowledge (or job in IT) is absolutely useless unless you put it into your daily routine of work. Yes, you do have to do some lame jobs - but so do I as a manager, so does my senior technicians and so does my LM... that's a given in any job... I wonder how many sales teams like outbound calls and continual rejections, I wonder how many sales staff in a shop like getting a beasting over a dented can of beans? I do agree, ICT is very stressful, schools are very much a nightmare it's continually busy throughout the day during term time, i guess this can be compared to shops with holidays/xmas/last minute buyers on a Sunday? I guess the other issue is progression, not many shops will have such a potentially varied path, IT apprentice doesn't mean you need to work in support in 5 years - you may find your ability is programming, systems administration or web design :-)

Sorry to kick up a dead thread... Is this still the case? I've heard that it may be the case within our school in the forseeable future, infact, we could well be in the first phase this January with the new build, having spoken to the architects they've said they aren't concerned with our current just the building they're putting up... having checked on here we're wave E. In discussion the architects mentioned that the school should move the Internet conn into this new building as in the long run this would make more sense with the total rebuild, I then heard "oh, do you remember i mentioned the BSF and building new buildings to you" aimed at me from our business manager... at this point my heart sank after reading the horror stories on here. The architects were less than concerned with our current building and are offering to implement lots of nice ICT things for the new building, when I asked what about the current school, bluntly one of them said "that's your problem, we're only concerned with our building - when the new building is decided we will link these". I thought the whole idea was to work with us?! I asked the business manager directly afterwards about the plan for the BSF, BM said this is something not to worry about is it will not affect us directly & if the school has to undertake it that it's miles away (2 years), it will only be to re-build the school (we are in dire need of a rebuild, we have 3 temp. errect buildings & an ancient main building). I said even so that i'd read some horror stories... BM said please do not go down this route & that was directly related to pfi, so i've pretended to forget and get on with it. The technicians & I read on here alot, it's an invaluable resource and we read that foundation schools may not be affected in the same way as other schools, is this going to be the case - is this fact?

When I took mine at VW to become a mechanic we were paid nearly the same, all my training was paid for and all travel to and from the college in Bristol from Heathrow, they looked after me very well as they wanted to keep me... unfortunately it wasn't for me. Apprenticeships are a great thing if done correctly, as long as the apprentice has access to learning they will have something to boost them if they decide to leave and if they decide to stay hopefully more access to development. As for grads vs experience... I graduated with many people who could do very little on a computer, turned up to few lectures & practicals and came out with 2:1s and 1st class degrees - it's amazing how many people turn up at graduation you've never seen before on your exact same course. Looking back if i had access to an IT based apprenticeship i'd have jumped at it! I've worked with guys who were very intelligent leaving school at 16 who are now in far better paying positions than myself and i'm not ashamed to admit with far more knowledge in certain areas & i've worked with grads from top 30 unis who can't do simple tasks like change a toner with direction... but that's going OT. Best of luck to whoever applies for the job, good starting point.

We had the exact same issue as I was starting, staff were very unhappy as they were basically in-charge of everything, they had to be in total control of the network during transition and had pretty much kept the school going during the transition from old to new manager. I asked them honestly what they wanted when I started and what plans they had for the next 3 months, then went to my LM as Network Manager and had told them they felt the wage did not match the work they did nor did it match the qualifications & experience they had. I then went back with responsibilities of the staff after discussing with them, then went back to my LM. It was a slow process, it took nearly 4 months but they did get the salary changes they were expecting (even backdated slightly). Schools are painfully slow for progress i've found, it's amazing that you've stuck at your job that long within a school, it sounds harsh but it's definitely the most difficult to effectively plan for as teachers are strange creatures. I think from your POV you need to ask your NM for a meeting, if he can't make time ask the NM's LM (perfectly fair, the NM may genuinely be too busy) - obviously don't go in with guns blazing but state you feel you're now in a position to undertake new responsibilities (maybe offer ideas for where you could take over things and how you could improve it) and suggest that maybe you can take the lead on responsibilities of a senior technician (if you aren't one already, if you are - asst NM?) and see how it goes from that point on. Be very careful how you word the money concerns, your NM and NMs LM understand money makes the world go round but don't make it the focus. You have every right to want to progress, the schools SHOULD be offering staff development based on what you want as well as what the school wants, regardless of what area you work in. You may be unlucky, you may have a NM who likes to keep things in his control - if this is the case, try to get on-top of any new projects, for instance wireless projects etc.

Primary schools i've worked with have used Logo At school we currently have scratch, Pascal is definitely the way to go to teach the basics because it's close to pseudocode (which alot of students write in GCSE & AVCE). It's very wordy, whether or not you get anything that's graphical is a different matter... I was at uni with 23 year olds who couldn't understand it on a comp sci degree. Personally, if i was to teach (which i'd totally hate to do) i'd get ahold of Delphi 6/7 (should be freely avail) and make a simple calculator :-P

You can do the job with a Magicard Enduro, you need to have the intermediate software from magicard too. It's not too difficult but it's not going to link in, you'd need to export from sims and import into the software.

Hello Ron, I would go for vendor neutral training like A+, N+, Server+ if you want to get yourself some qualifications, just because you can do things the MS way doesn't necessarily mean it's the only way (or logical way in some cases). If you want to get 'management' training, it's not quite as simple, the best way is to learn from your LM or ask to join in on the LMs training, things like prioritising, people management, implementing procedures & protocol - as it's dependant on how your school runs. Ask for more responsibility at your current job, say you want to take things on and run them yourself, like if they need a new website and you've got a bit of know-how take the lead - managing is leading too, it's taking the shoutings when things go wrong - it's not all about better salary, sitting around typing e-mails & buying things... alot of what I have to do is things i'd not want my technicians to do, mind numbing admin work & the like... but if they offered i would be very happy, shows they want to learn more things and they want to get more knowledge. If you're good at your job & you know your stuff it can't hurt to have a few quals behind you, if you want to step up ask for responsibility, take the lead - show you're wanting to move up. Training for schools is difficult, they don't want to train someone who will leave - learning second hand from your NM isn't always the best way as you may all be very busy:-(

It is an odd issue - if you're not pulling our legs :-P Faulty mobile phone, hearing aid - trying to think of things a person may have on them, pacemaker? I don't know if any would really affect a machine like that though?

I disagree with pay peanuts and get monkeys, we all start somewhere! Probably better in someways to learn whilst working, i hated learning at uni and never putting to a real world situation. If the apprentice is 16 and sticks at it for 5/6 years higher education/uni length they're going to be in a great position compared to a grad - by then hopefully gaining some professional accreditations along the way.