Working with our Network Manager, IT Services Team and IT Strategy
Every January, just four months into the current Laptops4Learning programme, our E-Resource Manager and I began planning, researching and procuring test devices for the start of the next academic year. Each year we remind ourselves, it is not about the …
Content control or filtering of the internet in schools remains a hot topic of debate within schools. Not just for LEA administrators, school leaders and Network Managers but believe me, for the students. Frustrated by the disparity of home and …
Microsoft Labs posted an interesting article / update on OfficeTalk testing today (testing for quite some time if you take into account the first official posts were in March 2010). ‘Microsoft’s Twitter for businesses‘ application. The most notable statistic highlighting that …
I orginally drafted this post back in March when we were finalising our procurement. It was important that we got all our information confirmed before I posted it, I then duly forgot it was in DRAFT. (Incidentally thats the not …
I am pretty sure that full featured online video editing is not far away? Youtube have just announced that you can now ‘Edit in the Cloud‘ and thats fun, but its also limited and perhaps ‘rough around the edges’ but …
From the time we started to planning our Laptops4Learning (L4L) project, we have been interested in Bluetooth technology and broadcasting. The thought being that as our netbook population grew, we could share school communications with a wide student audience for little …
As we continue to pursue bids from vendors for a new blade server infrastructure, we invite Fujitsu’s Edgar Rich (Enterprise Solutions) to Hamble College. In turn Edgar encouraged we take a leap of faith in the kit and furthermore he was very receptive …
Planning for netbooks (Laptops4Learning) we are always on the look out to make this personal learning tools more efficient. The unit, the OS and battery life are the foundations for all decisions. Introducing a simple visual battery display that is …
