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  • There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

    “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” ― John Lydgate BETT always provides something to talk about and this year has been know different. Whether it is announcing…

  • Naace Impact Awards pt 2

    It was quite a lovely shock to find that I won an award today. Last year Naace took the brave step of introducing an award aimed at technical staff in schools. At the time, when speaking with some peers from the technical community, some expressed concern about how a “bunch of teachers and LA folk…

  • Naace ICT Impact Awards

    It felt very strange on Thursday whilst down at BETT … I was nervous, excited, pensive and lots of other things which generally mean I was not too sure how to feel. I had been put forward for an award and was waiting to hear about being shortlisted. Naace has no doubt about the impact…

  • And the winner is … iOS6

    Today was another peak in the circus of an Apple Fanboi! The Apple World Wide Developer Conference always has some interesting things to see and today’s keynote was no different. There will always be some hype, some disappointment, some pragmatism and some anger … and different people will feel it about different things, even within…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops pt 3

    We have now covered the most simplistic methods which many schools are using to manage iOS devices, and frequently these are shared devices we are talking about, not individual devices owned by the user. The issues that this can bring is that as you grow with the number of devices you have or reduce the…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops pt 2

    The workshop spent some time looking at the range of tools to support and manage iOS devices and so I’ll run through some of the areas which it covered. I’ll also try to highlight where most of us are when it comes to many schools trying to do ad-hoc management of devices. For the sake…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops

    There were 3 streams at the event and, although I really wanted to buck the stereotype and get more involved in the content creation stream, I really had to go to the infrastructure stream as there are so many questions and queries about Mobile Device Management (MDM) that needed looking into. I blog fairly extensively…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – Intro

    It is good to see Apple throw themselves into the education arena a bit more after having been notoriously shy over the last few years. With the corporate stance on attending tradeshow meaning that the official presence at BETT has not been a possibility it was wonderful to see a number of combined ASE/ADE/AASP stands,…

  • BETT – Mr Gove’s Speech

    It was interesting to finally get to an opening keynote at BETT and it turns out to be Mr Gove, Secretary of State for Education. Having read a few newspaper articles over breakfast most of us knew the basics of what the speech was going to say, but we all know and appreciate that, short…

  • BETT 2012 – The Summary

    It may seem a little strange to write a summary without having written the other posts … but best to keep things short and sweet. There will be more posts, but rather than the initial splurge of activity post-BETT I thought I would share ideas, opinions, what I saw, conversations I had, etc … but…