Posted on October 26th, 2007 by russell.dyas
Over past few weeks with one thing and another it has been manic so not done much blogging so I apologise.
Anyway just a quick post to say Microsoft are running series on online briefing sessions aimed at education.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ukschools/archive/2007/10/18/scheduled-education-briefings-online.aspx
The sessions are being presented by Nick Umney & Steven Audis both of which we had pleasure [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2007 by russell.dyas
In words of Jesse from the Fast Show this week I will mostly be blogging at Teachers TV. As they have kindly invited me to be guest blogger at the website for this week.
The first post is now up with more to come each day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Show
http://www.teachers.tv/blog
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Posted on August 19th, 2007 by russell.dyas
In the UK it seems mentoring has gone out of fashion, but then does this mean that young people starting their careers are losing out?
I remember my very first mentor, his name was John and I had just started my career working at Loughborough College. I learnt a lot, from hardware to professionalism, [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by russell.dyas
As Kermit the frog once said “It’s not easy being green”. There has been a lot of news recently about ICT companies going green, and with the introduction of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive), green computers and green initiatives by Google (http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/125302.html), it looks like it will not ease off. But can a [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2007 by russell.dyas
EduGeek.net @ BETT & Changes
It seems like the EduGeek.net Technical Help stand at BETT 2007 has been a great success. I am sure all of the admins will have a proper de-brief at sometime in the future and plan for next year
Not managed to get down to the show [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Wow been a month and a bit since i have wrote here main thing been taking up my time apart is immediate arrival of a little person in the house along with major refits of ICT at work plus work becoming a RM Partnership School.
Anyway looking lot into project management as with combination of [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Well I am here at BCS Schools Working Party Weekend (http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1643) I managed to get here even if train was running late.
Anyway after a nice dinner it was keynote speech by BCS president Mr Charles Hughes Ceng FBCS CITP on the BCS ProfIT project. The talk was interesting and in someways this talk [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Yes thats me with my back turned to camera??
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Posted on September 6th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Seocnd day has started first session was a interesting two part talk about Digital Student and M-Learning.
Chris Boyne presented a paper on Digital Students (http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=775 ) unfortunately it was not his paper but presenting on behalf of someone at last minute so he stumbled bit through it.
What came out of the pan-Europe research was that [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Keynote as anticipated was very good there should be an audio version of it on ALT website as some point.
Diana started taking about how the shape of education is changing the fact that today’s learners are digital; they are able to pick up technology with little problem. They are connected in constant way via [...]
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