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When I turned up at my latest school I was shown to a cupboard, which housed the central switch, stock, spares and paperwork and all the servers. No desk, and no space for a computer. No air con. I had Read more…

I’ve been following reaction to a blog post on Twitter, by Mark Anderson the problem with technicians (@ictevangalist) http://ictevangelist.com/the-problem-with-technicians/ and a subsequent follow up from @jonwitts http://www.jonwitts.co.uk/archives/760 in defence of technicians. Mark’s post describes the infuriation of teaching for staff when Read more…

Recently I decided that I wanted to give all my users the free office they can get under EES Student Advantage. I had looked into this before and it was one hell of a nightmare to set up I thought, Read more…

I am a big fan of social media. I have been on twitter since 2009, facebook from before that and I enjoy posting updates. I like to share with family and close friends on facebook, particularly with 2 young kids Read more…

We have whole school enrichment days at our main schools, normally it means all IT is booked out, and the network is just creaking. We don’t always have a direct input – but this is good – staff are confident Read more…

I had a fun job this half term – I had to migrate SIMs from SQL 2008 to 2014 – as the next SIMs release doesn’t support it. Unfortunately the timing wasn’t great, recently we have had a few issues – Read more…