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DIY is the road to thrift…
As I’ve written before, I’ve had experience of working in two very different schools. One a staunch supporter of RM and its Community Connect management tool, the other a distinctly ambivalent RM customer preferring the more vanilla approach to network management (the only RM product was SmartCache 2).
In the time that I’ve been away from [...]
My HTC Desire & Me (or I…?)
Rather unlike our summer I’m going through a bit of a creative dry spell. In an attempt to kick-start the old creative juices I thought I would write a brief review of my thoughts after a month with my HTC Desire.
I have the ‘exclusive’ black version only available in the UK with Orange; however, the [...]
Twitter Etymology
You’d have to be living inside a dark shoebox at the end of the bed of a hermit who lives in a cave under the sea on a planet a million light years away not to have heard of Twitter at least in name over the past few months. With any service like this a [...]
IT – Where do we go from here?
So, the much loathed emergency budget has arrived and as predicted education could suffer cuts of up to 25%; I predict that, with swingeing cuts to be made – and IT (read: network, rather than curricular) not being seen as a frontline department, the IT budget within schools will be far too tempting for [...]
Tags: budget, education, microsoft, saving money, windows
Microsoft Fun, Free Friday!
0530hrs and my alarm goes off with an unwelcome screech – it’s time to get up ready for Microsoft’s Fun, Free Friday event held on it’s campus at Thames Valley Park, Reading.
The event was designed to demonstrate some of the technologies Microsoft brings to the education sector including everything from Live@edu through to XNA [...]
Tags: education, Fun Free Friday, live@edu, microsoft, photo fuse, reading, Technology, windows live essentials
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