Posts Tagged ‘education’
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
My problem with exams…
I am, amongst other things, a second year IT student at the University of Reading in the UK. This time of year for me, and thousands of other students, is a nightmare as we prepare for the onslaught of exams. Exams are something that have been deemed necessary by the ‘system’ at practically every level [...]
Are you listening to me? – Tips for Support Staff
Providing support in schools, like anywhere, requires listening to a whole barrage of problems that people have all day, every day. In my experience most of the problems you are given to solve are simple – the sort you can reel off the solution from memory and the user is satisfied.
The problem occurs when [...]
School IT folk – the Swiss Army knives of the industry…
In a post earlier this month I talked about how I thought that IT staff in schools were no longer just men (and women) in cupboards, and that the role had become much more important in recent years. I had some really fantastic feedback, one particular comment from Terry McDonald, a network manager, really caught [...]
Tags: education, IT, network manager, schools, swiss army knife
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