marekbrad

Go for Macs buddy... simple plug and go with usb midi.... plug guitars etc straight in, garage band can do the majority of curriculum work.. Sibelius is the bees bottom for composition runs seemlesly on the mac. They are built for multimedia and rock solid. Easy to integrate into a windows server environment. If you go really high end pro tools works a treat too.

Go for the Cutter Project... just waiting on delivery of TS solution for 200 terminals all preconfigured and ready to go... v impressed so far:)

MRBS Here too... Running nicely under IIs 7... Staff find it easy to use and understand

ACER Aspire One's Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Customised to remove some of the apps and tools) Wireless Connectivity SIMS Learning Gateway Thats how I'm doing it. Seems to work ok all PE staff prefer netbook size - not as cumbersome as a lappy

Been looking into this myself ... found this article on setting up WP and IIS7 Preparing to Install WordPress on Windows and IIS | David’s Technical Musings

Hippy Birdie Edugeek... long may we continue Picasa Web Albums - Karen (Turtle)

Video Converter Freeware - Any Video Converter Free Version - convert video to any formats, avi to MPEG, avi to MP4, flv to MPG Never had any probs with the above... give it a whirl

Using an Aspire One with Ubuntu Netbook remix together with 3 Usb Broadband stick to post this ... so yes it works with usb dongles.. just plug in and off you go.....

Geoff -- Cheers for prompt reply steps 2 and 3 appear to be the problem... I tried using a gui tool and all that happened was I could not login to the linux as local user. Have you got a step by step guide to the whole process .. just point me to a weblink? I ma assuming that once this is done on 1 workstation I can image it onto others or is it an individual station jobby?

Ok smack my butt and call me stupid (here we go opens himself up for huge abuse) We have a large number of cranky old workstations and I am considering going down the edubuntu route to keep them alive for a couple more years. I have succeeded with likewsie-open to get the machines authenticated on the domain... however the next stage is driving me round the twist ... student login, mapping homedrives, shares and finally printers. I have searched about the net and found loads of helpful, but often conflicting methods. So my questions are... has anybody actually got this working successfully with Win 2003/2008 server? has anybody got a simple howto? Would anybody be willing to let me come see this in operation at your school (anywhere from Manchester upwards)? thanks in advance guys

Anyone else at the BSEC conference in Manchester... here for both days if anyone fancies a pint tonight!!!! I will be attending the ICT seminar this afternoon... follow @marekbrad on twitter or #bsec #bsec09 Lots of questions around what will "technology enhanced pedagogy" will look like. Chris Poole from microsoft made the point it has taken untill 12.55 for the conference to get onto ICT

See Ya tmrw guys:D

Top answer Dos_Box and eloquently put if I may say so.

thanks guys I have asked the netmanager to have a look at that.... cheers

Now thats a good question Bromcom still in use ... does that affect the SIMS database... still no answer from sims but they have taken a copy of the db to look at.

I shall be there all 3days ... one of my schools is up for a prize too...

excellent news... still got the problems here and it is definitely restricted to attendance module... any thoughts guys

HOW TO: Limit User Logon Time in a Domain in Windows Server 2003 has all the info you need i think There is a section on changing times for users and groups as well as non standard hours

Report card all appears to be working fine over here.... The problem seems to be more and more a random student thing and not even the same student each time... ours has only started today by the looks of things and we appear not to be using the keep kids safe stuff

Wow so I just get onto the site and get a call that something similar has happened at a school I am working at. It appears that it is more of a random issue here where certain marks are changed for certain students... major issue is that school is under HMI scrutiny for attendance... HELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!! update: called sims support they are not aware of an issue: unmode did you log the error with capita support?

only making a play buddy no worries 1st come 1st served and all that my mommy always says if you don't ask you dont get... hehe

Seriously if you are chucking em away we will have them for a primary school that is wanting some macs for use in nursery / reception. No budget but will come and collect .... go on you know it makes sense

you could try and contact my mate John @ ergo [email protected] and tell him mark from bradford LA sent you see if you get a response then. Will look at all our old Ergo LA stock bound to have a mercury 3 somewhere. We deal exclusivly with ergo as an advisory team and have been exceptionally pleasedf with support etc.

Ulead Video Studio 11 (now Video Studio Pro X2)is a good buy at the moment and works very well with Sony and other HD based cameras. We use it at one of our CLC's with pupils from Y3 - Y11 VideoStudio 11 - or from Pugh

We now have approx 150-200 devices out in Primary / secondary Schools accross the city. Just a quick rundown of our findings 1> Stick with the Linux Installs 2> Provide a "dirty" wireless solution to allow them to connect without going anywhere near your network.. all work done on the device to be uploaded to your VLE/ Learning space 3> Linux install is clean, easy to use and provides students with the tools they need to use in lessons as an alternative to the traditional notebook. 4> If you do mess the the distro eeebackup is a great tool for "imaging" onto an SD Card (PM Me foir more details on howto use) - but is not without its problems and could on occaision be more hassel than pressing F9 at startup and restoring to its original settings (ok u do have to re-enter wireless details but hey we have Y2 children doing it so its not that hard) 5> Provide each device with a 4GB SD card and you got plenty of storage Example Uses: Simple notebook / spreadsheet / presentation with Open Office USe built in video to record drama / Science / etc Use built in Audio Recorder for MFL / AFL / digital notetaking Games keep em happy over break / lunchtime WEb is great for "just getting information quickly" They will last all day if you just open, do what you need to to then close the lid. Don't get too geeky with messing about with the Linux/ connecting to network etc they are meant for open, use, go meantality I could go on and on but that will do for starters.. I will do a full publish of the article I am writing to the forum when done at around christmas time