January 2010 - ICT for Education - Learning Gateway User Group

Becta Home Access Scheme

Let me start this post by saying that the Home Access scheme is an excellent idea and will hopefully make a big difference to many families. As a School we decided that to ensure ALL of our eligible families got what they were due we would get involved...

Published 01-27-2010 12:44 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Aggregation, Becta, Microsoft Office, Home Access

HyperV – The Design Phase

After last years complete rebuild of the network cabling infrastructure and data switches, the major project for this year is to rebuild our domain from scratch. We have decided to do this using a HyperV environment. The reasons for doing this are numerous...

Published 01-20-2010 2:07 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Virtual Server, Cost Saving, Sun, HyperV, Virtualisation, Thin Client, Solaris, Virtualization

BETT 2010 – Day 4

So BETT 2010 is now at an end. Its been a great 4 days demoing Windows 7 on the Microsoft stand. I have met some genuinely fantastic people and envisage a lot of deployments of Windows 7 over the coming year and remember as I told everyone who came to...

Published 01-15-2010 11:54 PM by Alan Richards

Filed under: BETT, BETT 2010, SharePoint, Twynham

BETT 2010 – Microsoft DreamSpark

Day 3 over and done then, still busy and great to meet so many people pushing the boundaries of IT in education, its really exciting. So topic for this post is FREE SOFTWARE Microsoft DreamSpark If you run some programming courses within your School or...

Published 01-15-2010 10:57 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Microsoft, Research, Kodu Labs, Microsoft Research, Kodu, DreamSpark, Microsoft DreamSpark

BETT 2010 – Day 2 or Touch Day

Well day 2 has now finished at BETT 2010 and it was a very busy day on the Microsoft stand. Our Windows 7 pod was busy all day long both giving demos of Windows 7 but also of demos of Office 2010 Beta, which you can download from here I thought...

Published 01-14-2010 11:10 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, BETT, BETT 2010, MultiTouch, Touch, Windows 7 Touch

BETT 2010 – Day 1

So BETT 2010 day 1 is over. The day started with the stand briefing by Microsoft staff for all of us working on the stand for the day and then the fun started. I was assigned to one of the Windows 7 pods and I daren't even try to count up how many...

Published 01-13-2010 2:40 PM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, Installing Windows 7, BETT, Office 2010, BETT 2010, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint, Comet, Live@Edu

BETT 2010

If you read this blog you probably also know that BETT 2010 kicks off on Wednesday 13th January at the Olympia exhibition centre in London. BETT is the worlds largest and best IT exhibition for education. If your coming you need to plan your visit or...

Published 01-12-2010 12:38 AM by Alan Richards

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, BETT, Office 2010, BETT 2010, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint, BETT2010

January 2010 - ICT for Education

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