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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 visit us on the pod, just ask if you have any questions...
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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...
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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 I would highlight one of the new features of Windows...
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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...
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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...
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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 demos of Windows 7 I have given today. I seemed to...
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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...
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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...