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But Sharepoint Is a Business Thing … We Are A School
Originally posted at Sharepoint365 – http://sp365.co.uk/2011/07/but-sharepoint-is-a-business-thing-we-are-a-school/ After reading the various blog posts from the great and good of the world of SharePoint you don’t need me to talk technical, about the architecture of the servers, about the importance of design and branding, about particular functionality in an education or business environment … so what on earth am I…
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The Mac FanBoi / Open Source Evangelist goes to Reading.
Most people who take a butchers at my blog, peruse my EduGeek posts, try to decipher my deliberations or are simply mindful of my meandering thoughts, are aware of my use of Apple products and my preference to ensuring Open Source Software is always considered when looking at options. So I take great delight in…
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It’s an Awards thing!
It is lovely to see people truly get the recognition they deserve when they have done something good. It doesn’t matter whether it is the appreciation of children and parents at the end of a school year, that round of applause after presenting at a TeachMeet, seeing your blog referred to many times or the…
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
After a wonderful day before half-term, running the Safeguarding Through Technology day for NetworkNorthants, I am brought home to the reality that there are many risks out their for people on the Internet, never mind children. With the high profile news of Mac malware in the wild including variants coming in, that rely on users…
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The Cloud Is The Future
Yes … the conversation is coming round to the same thing once again. This time it is sparked off by the Apple WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco. With all the stuff that has gone on, it is not surprising that Apple would make some changes about how their software interacts with each other, about…
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Red Tape or Legal Backing
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The James Review … what does it really mean for tech in schools?
The report is quite comprehensive in the breakdown of problems, but has to summarise some of them and it means some of the detail is missed. It also uses some language which misses out on opportunities to pin things down. It suffers from vagueness … Although ICT is mentioned in a number of areas, a…
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Purpos/ed
What is the purpose of education? I would say my main thought on the purpose of education is that it should inspire the new, allow us to cherish the old, to help develop the understanding of the difference and the ability to make choices about the appropriateness of both. This will start from the choices…