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My last school (2 1/2 years ago) had a BGFL connection, and they allowed us to access FB from two specific i/ps on our network. One was in the IT office and the other the person who handled child protection issues. We told them we wanted this and it was made so.

When a staff member dropped hers, we took it to Timpsons. They said it would take a week and cost £100, and it did. Convenience was a bit factor in choosing them.

+1 for clickview/clickcap we had it at my last school and it was brill. Easy to use for recording stuff of the TV. For old VHS tapes, we used a VCR connected to a PC with TV card to upload them to clickview. Old VHS tapes are a bit of a problem. Where I work now, most classrooms have VCRs, but as these die we don't replace them. We don't install VCRs in the new buildings either. While we do offer the facilities to convert VHS to DVD, we point out to staff that the material on the VHS is either out of date or more likely, has been played so many times that it is unwatchable and so converting it to DVD is largely a waste of time.

I once saw a script, which ran at login, which asked "Is this computer OK?" and if the user ticked the "Yes" box, they were logged on and their user id and time logged. If the next person, ticked the "No" box, they couldn't logon. Action could they be taken as the previous user said the box was OK when they logged on, so clearly they had vandalised it. Harsh but fair. Most schools I think, just accept it as a fact of life. Working in a college, I have yet to see a keyboard vandalised. If you want to stop them swapping keys around to make swear words on the top row, try Daskeyboard 4 Ultimate - I haven't seen them in schools, but it was always my dream to install them. I guess another option now that all machines have usb ports is to issue each student with a mouse and keyboard and they must take it with them to use the computer. if they don't bring their keyboard = no computer use. When they return them at the end of the year, don't return their deposit if there is more than fair wear and tear. I haven't seen this system in operation; be the first school to do so.

"A stool built specificially for this reason" - talk about forward planning (or perhaps there is a history of this happening on Mk2 Harrier variants?)

6/10 but a couple were lucky guesses.

We have a secure WiFi for college supplied devices and a guest WiFi for everyone else.

If you are using Sketchup, "The Missing Manual" is worth finding. It's a book rather than videos, but I've found it very useful. There are also plenty of excellent tuts on youtube. Pick the ones by SketchUpVideo and Brooke Godfrey

As a Linux user, I have the XScreenSaver "engine" running, which displays a 3d animation of a random engine. There is a screenshot here XScreenSaver: Screenshots (scroll down a bit to see it) My favourite engine is the Napier Deltic. Here is a youtube animation There used to be this animation in a much clearer resolution hosted on the web, but it looks like they haven't paid their hosting fee as it has vanished. The Museum of RetroTechnology has several animations of the more Unusual Internal-Combustion Engines. It's a damn cool site too!

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If you are close to Blackheath, go and see Mr Jinks cnr High Street and Holly Road. I have always found him first rate.

We use FlippingBook and we went for the professional licence.

Here's a clip about gender specific marketing from a TV program that I saw when I was in Australia recently

We allow the use of DropBox for staff and students, but we don't install it on the PCs or MACs. If they want to use it, they have to use the web interface. We introduced this policy after it was installed on the MACs and kept falling off the desktop. The teacher who uses the MACs wasn't happy but we said "That's the way it is going to be". Students also have Office365. So what don't they use that? Said teacher instructs them to use DropBox but we discourage it by the aforementioned policy. Most students use the Office365 or usb stick.

In the past I've done this by installing a local proxy, eg Acrylic DNS proxy on the specific PCs and using the config to ban all hostnames except the specific one.

When I worked at a school under the realm of the BGFL seven years ago, we did exactly what you want to do. We didn't tell them we had it, until some blabber mouth let slip. They ranted and raved about how it bridged the network and they threatened all sorts of action, including cutting us off. After much ranting by both parties, the link remained and it became very useful.

Throwable 36-camera ball takes perfect panorama photos | ExtremeTech Interesting technology starting around 550 Euro. I wonder how long before we see an epic fail picture of someone falling off a building as they try to catch it.

In addition to what the other posters have said, a ladder is a good idea, while the most important item is the junior techie to carry the cable reels and thread cables through false ceilings and ducts.

We've seen this. Have a look at Settings > Site administration > Server > Session Handling and see if the use database is set. We disabled it on ours and the problem went away. Another method, of course, would be to get the settings right if you are using the database for sessions, but it seems to me to be overkill for session handling. http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Sessions_FAQ

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Our Moodle runs on WAMP 2008 R2 (OK so it really should be on LAMP, but that's not going to happen). Friday, nobody could access Moodle. If you tried, the browser sat there spinning for a while, and then eventually timed out. I log onto the box and it is asking for a reboot, having done windows updates. Once rebooted, if you tried to access Moodle you got a 403 error. So I thought that I would add read/execute perms for everybody on webroot, as a quick fix. I was prompted about 100 times that I don't have permission to do that. Still getting 403 errors, so I decided to revoke read/execute perms for everybody (that is undo what I had done) and try something else. Again, about 100 times saying I don't have permission to do that. Now Moodle starts to work. Well sort of. Users can access it no problems, however if I logon to the box, and use IE11 (the only browser on there), the following happens : http://localhost - 403 http://127.0.0.1 - 403 http://hostname - 403 http://172.2.x.y - works! http://url_to_moodle - works! Any ideas as to how to fix this? I used to be able to access the site while logged onto the box using the first three methods. Thanks!

We have both "Moodle for Dummies" and "Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques" available on the network for teaching staff and they are never accessed. Books are probably not a good way to learn about Moodle; you are much better off fiddling with it. There are some good videos on youtube (and some rubbish ones too), so you could perhaps setup a page of links to those, showing common tasks, such as creating a page, creating a quiz, etc. We have some Moodle Mentors, staff who have fiddled with Moodle and are familiar with it. They run workshops and are available to answer staff questions. Most staff still prefer to contact me though. I know how to administer Moodle, but I have no idea as to how to get the best out of it from a teachers point of view. "Moodle for Teachers.: An Illustrated Guide" looks quite good and is cheap, but we are not getting any more books.

We use Deploy. I don't know if it will do it's stuff over wireless, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Our MACs are desktop and it works fine. I guess it talkes about 1/2 hour per MAC. Our server is a G4.

"Don't ask for your privacy. Take it back." https://www.resetthenet.org/