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29, 30 in sep- yuck Oooglies rock!

Ermm......... phone???

Edugeek poll time methinks!!

Female tech here too-- and I actually know a couple of others- techs in surrounding primarys.

Walking shoes- look like a shoe- act like a trainer-- well thats my agument against the school dress code!!! steel toe caps doc martins for moving stuff around

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Every 18 months when allowance allows. School pays for test and £125 for glasses-- I like specsavers!!! (its a fun shopping trip!!!)

Hoosiers and Foo fighters, with a little muse and Pink thrown in for the fun--- agree with the robbie williams one, have that and swing when your winning, tho-- if only for when the office is locked and i can sing along (badly!!)

General Mufti- but wear red (Im wearing a red spangly stetson!!). Kids selling cakes at snack time-- better value than most supermarkets!! Name the bear comp in the Primary department-- general fun and games-- lots of gruffalo pics being coloured (this years theme is fictional monsters apparently). At least the kids are all smiling-- that means its a good day!!!

CC4's new trickle feed feature is giving me headaches! We have a lot of laptops and the trickle feed doesn't reach them because they are off- so that when they start up they are slow, lose printers, have issues surrounding log ons. We are considering "converting" our existing trolleys to access the network, and allow the wake on lan utility to work to allow the trickle feed. Does anyone currently use one of these on an RM network? Does it work well? Any help much appreciated!!

and now i have been handed the website password and a development plan---yipee not!!

We are hoping to move to CC4 in the hols, well that is when the new equipment arrives and the server build team!! I have read about the problems on here, and im hoping that with EIS doing the builds there won't be too much hassle (touch wood, everything crossed, etc)

Hi if anybody out there can help it would be much appreciated!! I am a TA at a special school and although we have a man from EIS in to do the bulk of the major stuff on our RM network, I am now being trained up to work on the new CC4 system. I am also supposed to keep track of the Licensing, deal with issues, train people, advise on programs, and possibly (if i can get on the training) assess pupils needs for assistive devices. I also do the bulk of the IT quotes and ordering for both our admin and curriculum networks and deal with the suppliers. I have also trained large groups of staff on specific programs. However i still have a TA job description and i dont think this covers me for the major amount of the work i will need to do, including repairs etc. I work 37 hours a week term time only (not enough to keep up), do 2 days in classes to keep my hand in, and spend the rest of my time juggling admin jobs and ICT repairs. My line manager has been saying he would get onto it, but hasnt for the last 8 months. I was thinking that if i could take in a "spec" job description (with possible pay rise!!lol) in to my review meeting, it might give him a bigger nudge. Does anyone out there have a job description like this? I know most job descriptions don't cover all we do, but are there any that are even close?? Help would be appreciated

managed to make manager understand we need new cc4 server last december-now getting around to a consultation on the order- only problem is we have 34 comps that are not compatible with cc4 (don't have the staying power!!) so those need replacing too and we have not the funds the usual then

got a box of choccies from one teach and a bar of choccie from a student!!!!-- not bad so far!!

too young for me----lol

Would love to go away on my own, unfortunatly a trip to see my mum in Sheffield is as far as i get......although she pays for travel, food etc-- so is really cheap!!!! have looked in to a couple of companys that do single person holidays-- seem to have good reviews-and a couple of friends have reccomeded-- maybe i will save up and one day go!!

We are a PSC school, Profound Severe and Complex Needs with outgoing MLD children top heavy in the upper years (we have a 16-19 unit too!!). I would say around 30% need touchscreens-(used mostly in ASD, PMLD, and early years classes) but have a feeling that may increase. Most have poor mouse control and nearly 75% need BigKeys or some form of other access device, ie switches, joysticks, etc. We have interactive whiteboards in most classes, but those with visual impairments use a plasma screen instead, better contrast etc, these are also touchscreens, so we don't need to buy those.

We have to include things like touchscreens, specialised external access devices, and all those kinda of things that would be specific and general use. That £43000 includes all consumables, tech support, technical service contracts, SIMS, Bsquared and this year CASPA support, as well as some general admin things. Also under the ICT heading are the generalised switches and sensory systems used throughout the school-- so £43000 doesn't actually cover much. And we haven't even looked into VLE's or website upgrades yet-- which are both becoming required. I totally agree with you, i would rather work with a vanilla system, and our eis tech agrees but until the powers that be realise that RM are a restrictive bunch that are just not really good enough -- all i can say is -- I am only a TA, i can give the advice but those who are above think they know better so i just sit and bide my time, until something blows up!!! lol And im sorry to say Maark, I dont think we can delay e upgrade much longer-- the system was not bought to handle as many users as we have, they didn't think ahead wen they bought the server to how many pupils would be on the site in a few years--- crap planning really.

Hi Mr Ben, no way to upgrade, very old RM desktop's and Dell's inherited from when we amalgamated. Yes an amalgamated new build--- don't asked about the issues we have had since the building has been (half) finished--lol and the two different systems we inherited (the school i was at had a lovely easy to run one-- the other, bigger, school used RM so guess what we moved too- yuck!!). We downgrade all new PC's to XP at the moment and our 1 day a week EIS technician says our new RM ONEs should be fine with the upgrade to windows 7 the new server may require-- (RM skipped Vista-- luckily) We spent a large portion of our budget last year on our RM ones and RM's to go with our whiteboards, so i am afraid until we get a major budget shift or a new person controlling it we are stuck with the RM solutions. Budget this year is about £43000-- i have been told.

Hi, I wonder if any of you knowledgable people can help me!! I am a TA with some network experience that seems to have been upgraded to technician 2/quote getter/and how to make this budget work person!! We are currently looking at moving to CC4 (not my idea or preference!) and have been told that some (ie 34 of the current 70) computers are not up to spec for this. We do not have the money to buy 34 new PC's along with a New server, licensing, supoort, and blah blah blah from RM. I am thinking of sugesting running a hybrid thin/fat client network with the current PC's within spec spread out among the thin client stations. This will enable us to reuse (i hope) some of the older machines with some spend on specialised thin client terminals. My only problem is we are a special school and run alot of programs/resources that seem to need alot of coaxing/handling/general maintence on the cc3 network. Does anyone have experience of running this kind of network in a special school? Would you recommend it? Thanks for any help.