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 IT seemingly block their desire to embrace new technology. Jon Read more…
This month has been like no other I have experienced in my role. In fact, there are days when I don’t even remember my role from a few months ago. On January the first we start supporting our seventh school. Walkwood are a large middle school and we have taken Read more…
It’s no surprise I haven’t kept to my blogging, I moved into my own house in September, I have been trying my best to help my 2 kids fit into new schools and nurseries and on the rare occasion I am not working or being a single dad I have Read more…
Free office! For pretty much every youngster and educator in the UK. Crikey, what a deal! It’s definitely something that gets parents and staff’s attention, with office costing circa £90 for home and student, it is a significant saving, and with the cross device usability (you can install on 5 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, looking at the poor Microsoft documentation, and my own lack 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 and brothers who live a long way away. I love 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 to use the technology and plan with it themselves. However, 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 – and in the middle of some staff doing reports via Read more…
What a week. It all started last week, when our exchange server just decided to stop working. One of my techies was updating SSL certificates as Chrome is sending warnings that it is out of date. A fairly simple process – but it turns out changing the SSL certificate raised Read more…
I have a few private clients that I have setup Windows Backup on to send data to a NAS drive. All works fine, until I get hit by an email saying backup isn’t working. Twice now, it has turned out to be the same error code, and an error about Read more…