Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Living the dream…
I remember being at primary school some years ago when our head teacher at the time, Mr Francis, announced he was moving on to a place called Pastures New. “What an odd sounding place,” I thought “I wonder where that is?”.
Very soon I’m about to find out, for I too will be going there. I [...]
Tags: job, microsoft, opportunity
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 [...]
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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