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In the Top Money Saving Tips , the ninth one was “ Stop your email servers ”. It used the example from the DCSF "’Securing our Future’ discussion guide, which prompted schools to look for efficiency savings – the example the DCSF used was London...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 07:43 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Live@EDU, video, BETT

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 12 – Save money on upgrades

Part eleven of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. Good news, my counting was hopeless, and my Top 10 tips actually contain 14 Top ICT Money Saving Tips. So there’s more to come after this one If...

Published Mon, Feb 8 2010 06:33 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Saving Money, office 2007, BETT, Office 2010, Money Saving Tips, select licence, School Agreement

Microsoft at BETT 2010 – the world’s largest Education IT exhibition

As you’ll know, the BETT Show in January is a major event for schools in the UK, and also a major event from Microsoft too. After months of planning, it’s all over in four days, and we then get a chance to recuperate from the week. After the show, it...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 01:28 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Events, free downloads, BETT

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 6 – Stop buying every laptop

Part six of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. Okay, the first five tips have concentrated on the idea of you making a ‘switch’ in the way that you do things. Tip 1, on virtualisation, is saving...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 03:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Students, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, case study, Home Access Programme, BETT, Becta, networks, Money Saving Tips

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 4 – Switch your communications

Part four of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. So far, the first three money savings tips could save a secondary school over £100,000 over three years (and a primary school £20-£25,000). And this...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 05:40 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Live Meeting, Saving Money, case study, office 2007, teaching and learning, BETT, Money Saving Tips, Wootton Bassett School

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 3 – Switch to Low Energy PCs

Part three of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. My next tip is to think about the energy usage of your computers in school. According to the latest research from BESA , primary schools have an...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 07:17 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Saving Money, laptops, BETT, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, RM, PARS Technology

BETT 2010 - Riding the BETT rollercoaster

It's the last day of BETT, and it's the morning after the night before ( in this case, our annual BETT staff party ). After three exhausting days it felt we needed a completely different style of "staff briefing", to get everybody awake...

Published Sat, Jan 16 2010 02:19 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: video, BETT

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 2 – Cutting your electricity bills

Part two of the money saving tips, based on my BETT 2010 presentation Yesterday, I covered saving money by server virtualisation. Today, let’s go outside of the server room and consider all of the computers right around you school. With the rapid growth...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 01:28 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Saving Money, Windows 7, BETT, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, power

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 1 – Server Virtualisation

Each day I’ll write a short piece about each one of the money saving ideas in my BETT 2010 presentation. Are you old enough to remember the first time that you realised that you needed a room to put the server in? Rather than just leaving it in the corner...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 01:23 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: presentations, case study, BETT, Wootton Bassett School

Off-the-wall ideas for a brave new world of global connections

This week’s TES ran the headline “Off-the-wall ideas for a brave new world of global connections”, over an article about our thinking on touchscreen displays. Richard Vaughan’s story concentrates on where we may end up in the future, with students using...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 12:10 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Press, BETT, TES

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips

At the BETT Show in London in January 2010, I have the luck of telling the story in our theatre called “Top 10 Money Saving Tips”. Of course, I had a few weeks to prepare, and a lot of help from individual schools who looked at their use of ICT and pointed...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 11:44 PM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Saving Money, presentations, BETT, Money Saving Tips

BETT 2010 Freebies list

It’s only a day away – and still a lot to do to get ready! However, I have managed to get together the freebie list from our stand – mainly because I know that there are some people who plan their BETT visit around scooping up the freebies, so here’s...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 01:34 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free stuff, free downloads, SharePoint in education, BETT, DreamSpark

Planning your days at BETT 2010 – the Microsoft Theatre schedule

Nothing like taking things right up to the wire – and this year we’ve excelled ourselves in making last minute changes to our BETT stand, in order to find a way to fit in all of the latest news onto our stand and into our theatre. But as the fitters start...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 05:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, Live@EDU, Windows 7, Monkseaton, learning gateway, BETT, Office 2010, Twynham School

Windows 7 multi-touch at BETT

One of the nice features in Windows 7 that’s not had much coverage is multi-touch. I think this is mainly because few of us have multi-touch laptops or screens. However, when you see it in action, it’s the kind of thing that makes you think “ I want one...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 03:53 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Windows 7, BETT

Planning for BETT 2010

BETT is the big event in the education ICT calendar, not just for you but for us as well. Knowing that 30,000 people will flood through the doors of Olympia in about 7 working weeks tends to focus our minds on making sure that we put on a good show for...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 02:22 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Events, Windows 7, office 2007, BETT, Office 2010, launches, Announcement

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