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Congratulations, you made it through to Christmas. But it's Christmas Eve. Shouldn't you be putting your feet up? Relaxing? Getting ready for tomorrow's festivities? Well, I know that in many schools, Christmas, Easter and the summer holidays mean "IT
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I was reviewing some of my colleagues notes from the World Innovative Teachers Forum in Helsinki, an event that we host annually for teachers and government attendees from all around the world, and saw a note that many teachers there were using Photo
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A few weeks ago, we introduced the new Search Server 2008 (this is software based, not another box for the server room), which allows you to make it easier for people within your school or local authority to find information published on your network
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I'm sorry - for the last three days I have been the victim of a virus doing the rounds here in North Oxfordshire. So instead of sitting behind a keyboard, and giving your more Christmas gifts, I have been behind a duvet, trying to recover (and not infect
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Today's gift is free online SharePoint training resources. I used these for the first time last week (even though I've been using SharePoint for 15 months). I have already customised my MySite, to add a wiki for my colleagues, and to put it directly on
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Continuing the 12 gifts theme, I wanted to share some useful information and resources for accessibility. I read in PC Pro that Microsoft is one of the founding members of the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA) , which also includes Adobe,
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My colleague, Paul Foster, works in the part of our business that talks to developers - both the commercial variety and student developers. One of the things they are constantly trying to do is to find new ways to engage students with the idea that programming
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Continuing my run of 12 Days of Christmas, here's my gift for today. 1GB of free online storage This year, USB memory sticks have been a recurring theme - I've given them away at events, I've distributed files on them, and in talking with students, it
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It's approaching Christmas, so here's the first in a list of 12 "Christmas presents" - some free software, some free resources, and details of some of the projects we sponsor in education. Earlier this month we took part in the launch of the Wembley Study
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