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  • Syndicating Blogs

    There are times when you just come across blog posts that you wish you had written or that you want to get to a wider audience. After a brief chat with one blogger I have come to admire he has agreed to allow me to syndicate his blog on mine. Using the auto-blog plugin for…

  • Filtering and the Nirvana of your own connection!

    In a recent article by Miles Berry, over on Merlin John’s site Agent4Change, Miles raises a number of really good points about saving money in this year of austerity … but there are a few points that still get me about Open Source and an almost blind faith that it can solve nearly all our…

  • Sharepoint in Education – the other side of things

    I’ve already posted about why I like Sharepoint so much and it was quite interesting to spend Friday in Warwick with Mike Herrity and co presenting about Sharepoint in Education. Mike’s blog goes into full details about who presented and what on, but here is my presentation as I looked more towards sharepoint 2010 as…

  • Do you *really* know what your school spends with ICT?

    A short post today, partly in preparation for a longer review of the courses from the FITS Foundation, but mainly in response to Ray Fleming’s latest blog post. One of the areas we covered on the FITS : Advanced course (also known as the FITS : Manager course) was about financial management … but, as…

  • Becta – Opportunities lost and opportunities gained.

    As most people will have seen Becta will be cut as a cost saving measure by the Conservative – Lib Dem coalition government. There is no published timescale on this but a number of people have said they have been told it is by November 2010 (myself included). As with many others who have experienced…

  • TeachMeet Hits its Fourth Birthday: Coming of Age #tmfuture

    TeachMeet is entering its fifth year and the unconference for teachers, by teachers has helped hundreds – maybe thousands, in fact – to try out something new, alter the way they already teach and learn, join a community of innovative educators or completely transform their way of working. The hope was that the model would…

  • Safeguarding student email – Safermail and Exchange

    Original article posted at https://learningpossibilities.lpplus.net/Pages/safer-mail.aspx for LearningPossibilities I’m pretty sure that most people know my position on the use of technology to routinely lock down and block what people can access or can do. Basically, I think that not enough thought goes into it, it takes control away from the teacher and that it puts…

  • Why buy a SharePoint based learning platform

    Originally posted at https://learningpossibilities.lpplus.net/Pages/Sharepointandweb.aspx for LearningPossibilities. Sharepoint and web 2.0 I’ve always wondered what it is about web 2.0 that people in education are so fascinated about.  There are lots of articles out there about the history of the Web, of Darcy DiNucci originally coining the term (1999) and then Tim O’Reilly pushing the term…

  • Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Free Event

    Courtesy of Mike Herrity … It will be a busy day for me, down to Reading and then dash back to Northampton for our TeachMeet! ————————————————————————– Free event for schools on Microsoft’s next generation Learning Platform SharePoint 2010 is due to be launched on May 12th as Microsoft’s next generation Learning Platform. Many schools across…

  • Ask not what your support provider can do for you…

    Ask not what your support provider / technician can do for you, but what you can do for them. I know that will sound very wrong to some people … putting the onus back on schools rather than the techies but when I am working with some schools who buy in their support from outside…