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Hi All, I'm not sure how politically correct and acceptable it is for a member of the company to reply to their own job advertisement, but here it goes! I joined Nexus summer last year as an ICT Consultant and really enjoy it. I don't think the text in the advert does the job justice, which is a positive and not-unexpected thing. Every day I'm doing something different, talking to different people, operating at different levels. Some days I might be working on documentation or creating technical designs, some days I'm presenting to schools, building contractors or the EFA. Sometimes I could be talking to teachers and staff to audit their use of ICT, or I could be playing with some funky new software, whilst on others I'm walking round a building site influencing the design to fit ICT. And they are just some of things I've been involved in so far. After 8 years working in schools it was a difficult to decision to re-enter the private sector, but I can say now that I made the right decision. I've not burnt my bridges or lost the influence I had on improving the use of ICT to support learning and teaching, rather now I get to do this from a different angle. Why did I write the above? I want to ensure that the best people get interested in the role as I want the best colleagues! Perhaps my little bit of text will encourage this. Thanks for reading, David

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Full job and person specifications are on the school website View our vacancies | Ken Stimpson Community School, as well as the application form.

Thanks, I'll give them a call.

Sorry, I've been out of it for a few days: The current setup is poor. With both core switches on the network will fail, meaning I can only run it in a non-redundant state and at half the desired speed. This is a product issue, not a configuration issue. Also, without naming a brand name, the company is no longer around in its previous form and the upgrade and support paths are pretty weak. I never would have chosen this network and just want something reliable!

I'm soon going to replace my current wired network with a new solution. Every active piece of kit in the backbone will come out and be replaced. I've currently got: 2 x 24 fibre port core switches 32 x 48 10/100/1000 Mbps port + 4 fibre port edge switches in 13 stacks of 1, 2, 3 or 4 switches. I intend to keep the same topology. All switches are POE on every port, but I could reduce this down to 1 switch per stack. As you might expect, we make use of VLANs. I also want a system that gives good management information to a centralised console, so either one that has a decent piece of bespoke management software or provides good SNMP information for a standard piece of software. Your opinions are welcome please, particuarly if you have recently upgraded / replaced your network. Thanks

Already getting a few answers, so thanks for that. Just in response to a question I had, my school is a state funded secondary school. I'm based in Peterborough, but am happy to travel a few hours for this.

Hello All, To aid in our plans of where we want to go with IT at my school, we'd really like to see how other schools are using IT successfully in all areas of the curriculum, admin and community. Are there any kind souls out there who have some good practice to share and would be happy for myself and the Vice Principal to come in, have a chat with you and a look around? We would of course pay for your time. Thanks in advance, David

I'd be happy to show off our vSphere solution for our servers with an iSCSI SAN. We've also done a lot with Moodle/Drupal integration with AD and SIMS for our intranet and learning platform.

Hi All, We're looking to set up a forum for parents, which will supplement our existing real parents' forum. They'll access this through our Moodle learning platform, integrated with Drupal to manage the forums, so it'll be secure from the outside world. Does anyone else have an online forum for parents or are you considering it? If so, how are comments moderated - before they are published or afterwards? Really trying to get an idea of best practice before going live with it. Thanks

To get around the above you can create 2 almost identical rules: In the first rule use 'when the Subject field or the body of the messages contains text patterns' and in here avoid putting words like the one above. In the second rule use 'when the Subject field or the body of the message contains specific words' and put all those words that can be part of legitimate words. This way you can block as much as innapropriate content as possible.

Good point! The error I'm getting is in this image. Thanks

We've tested a few ways - installing manually, using the deployment kit and by putting it on an image and then re-imaging the PCs. We've always had local admin rights when doing this.

Hi All, We recently purchased a site licence of Adobe CS4 Master Collection. We can get everything working excluding Premiere Pro, which is the product that we really need at the moment for our media studies course. Does anyone have experience of making this work when logged on as a student, i.e. with fairly limited permissions and definitely not a local administrator? We get error 6, regarding licensing. Tried all the guides we could find, but not getting anywhere yet. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks

That's good advice. Thanks for that. I had to pull the photo from a website, as the ones I have are in sealed brown boxes, so not that easy on the eye.