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Category: ict vision

  • Quick Interlude – books are the future!

    I like books, I like buying books, I like reading books and I like to keep hold of books to re-read or share with friends. Some of you may know me as a one-time lurker on alt.fan.pratchett, a subscriber to the Feistfans mailing list, the person who coughed up for O’Reilly Safari Online Bookshelf when…

  • Sharepoint Articles

    This week will see a few blog posts go up. First will be one already writte, exploring a bit more about sharepoint and web 2.0, next will be talking about why we filter emails and what impact the management of it can have, then finally I will be asking around about how different people feel…

  • Why do people want to start fights?

    A recent tweet (or rather a retweet) had the following URL (in which we see ten commandments from a technically savvy teacher to technicians) – http://bit.ly/dpdjFO – and whilst I can understand the intention I just find it opens up the can of worms that is techie/teacher bashing. On places like the TES forums you…

  • Innovation Management

    After my last blog post I have a few emails and messages pointing out that Change Management was often the blocker in teachers and techies trying new things out, that BSF used Change Management and contracts to stifle innovation, that red tape is the bane of education as it is and that we have to…

  • FITS will fit all your needs!

    What a wonderful week it has been. After a chance to catch up with schools involved in a local Apple RTC project (lovely to see and hear of teachers and pupils excited and engaged by the chance to try something different) we had the first piece of training for our new Technical Champions. The course…

  • Technical Champions

    I have a reputation now for being a bit of an independently minded person … having worked in independently minded schools has helped this view. Some might call me bloody awkward, even troll-like at times, but I do think that it pays off to think slightly differently and to try something different too. Take the…

  • The Bug strikes again

    (I can’t believe I had left this in as draft and not posted it! Originally written on 24th October – Published 2nd November!) I marvelled last night to receive a message from Drew Buddie about where the plans had reached when looking at what is happening over 3 nights at BETT 2010 (yes, that is…

  • So you want to be a strategic leader?

    A recent discussion on EduGeek.net was about the introduction of someone above the Network Manager, but line managed by the Bursar / School Business Manager. Full details can be found here. Since I have just come from a similar role (actually part of SLT and line managed by the Head) I thought I would give…

  • The Brave New World

    For those that may not be aware I have recently made a permanent change of role. I have been on secondment for a year with the LA and over the summer my job became a full time position so I had to decide whether to apply for it or not … I was a harder…

  • How do you share the joy and share the pain?

    A thread has popped up over on EduGeek.net about setting up user groups in schools … quite a step forward to have more input into how IT is set up at your school, but it is more than just about sharing a few ideas. This isn’t too disimilar to one of the learning conversations at…