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  • Searching for that elusive fact!

    After reading Ray Fleming’s recent blog entries about writing blogs I was most interested episode 3 where he talked about getting onto the first page of Google and why Google was the important used engine in the UK. We were also lucky enough to have Adam Bates, from Encyclopedia Britannica, come along to the Northants…

  • 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…

  • TeachMeet Midlands 09

    Friday was quite a fun night really … an eventful start to it as I witnessed a car crash into the central reservation, provided immediate assistance (no injuries, just shock), called emergency services and got my trainers covered in mud. If you have never come across a TeachMeet before I consider myself lucky that I…

  • “But no-one ever listens to me!”

    A comment that you can frequently hear in some schools when you talk to IT technicians or Network Managers… usually not long after someone else at the school has made a decision about kit being purchased, new IT suites, programmes involving laptops and students, or policy decisions involving scrapping a heap of security protections. Often…

  • Didn’t we have a lovely time…

    Yesterday down at InfoSec / IT Support Show. After getting down there via a later (and cheaper) train I met up with Tom Newton from Smoothwall. A quick dash into infosec was completed and a lovely, chilled Innocent Smoothie was quaffed! Why did I go down to is clearly not an education event? Actually, it…

  • ETRU VLE Special

    Sunday saw an EdTech RoundUp special on VLEs, looking at what is out there, how they are used, particular solutions and how they are adopted, and a bit more of a look at EdModo. It was a good session and I have just listened to the podcast to review certain aspects of it. One of…

  • “I’ve got lots of computers at my school!”

    Interesting conversation today whilst looking at the development of ICT for an Academy. Like many, it is being taken over whilst in the existing schools (all through) but the obvious ICT audit is required to see what they already have in place. This will make sure that the vision for the school and how technology…

  • BSF and ICT

    As well as stuff from NAACE2009, there have been a few other sessions I have been to looking at BSF. Over the weekend I’ll put up some notes on this and things that I am looking at. The first thing I need to say is that I feel bad that I am going along to…

  • #naace2009 meets Wordle

    I got a DM (Direct Message) on twitter at the end of the week from @advisorymatters (Gareth Davies, the past chair of NAACE to those not submerged in the Twitterverse) with a link to a Wordle generated from all the tweets at that recent Strategic conference. Then it struck me that I just don’t make…

  • Push it!

    Off for breakfast at McDonald’s tomorrow with the illustrious Mr Ford (we have good meetings in alternative places) to discuss a few things. First we have our project at a local primary, and the ideas are starting to come out how we can get the kids fired up to be contributors to the world instead…