It’s been a few days since I sent off a list of things for the school website developers to go and fix. I didn’t expect to hear off them so soon considering the list was fairly long. However, I received this email in my inbox this morning:
Category: Work Life
The New Photocopier(s)
Since the staff had a new room, it was decided that a new photocopier would be put in there too. Well, I say decided, more forced… the old one was too wide to fit through the door. I will give credit to the previous main photocopier, it did 4 and a half million pages without […]
CyberCenturion III – Introductory Round 1 – Ubuntu
Following on from the initial images for the 2016 – 2017 CyberCenturion competition, the Ubuntu images were available earlier this week for everyone to have a go with. While I can complete the Windows images and fix them pretty quickly, I’m not so good on the Ubuntu ones – some of the students are though. […]
User Acceptance Testing: The School Website
Our school is currently going through a rebranding effort, so it makes sense for the school website to be updated too. However, I haven’t really been involved with this much until the marketing team our school uses came to me to let me preview the new website. If there’s one thing that I don’t like […]
CyberCenturion III – Introductory Round 1
Last year, our school participated in the CyberCenturion challenge. To quote from their website: Are you age 12-18 and enjoy puzzles, code breaking and cyber? Then our CyberCenturion competition could be just the thing for you. What this involves is running a virtual machine with either Windows or Ubuntu and “fixing” security problems with it. […]
We Have The Summer Holidays For This…
Apart from building work, a large part of the school Summer holidays are spent getting all of the computers ready for when staff and students come back in September. Most of the time this means installing or updating software, or general hardware or software maintenance that can’t be completed when people are around. During these […]
The New Staffroom
Last year we got ourselves a new office. This year, it was the rest of the staffs turn. Well, that’s not entirely true. They already had a staffroom, but it was to be converted into offices for use by inclusion staff instead (the official reasoning for this is: “Inclusion is at the heart of the […]
Fun With Monitoring Software
Due to new regulations from the Department of Education that come into effect from September 2016 regarding Keeping Children Safe in Education, new software has been installed across the school network to ensure the appropriate use and monitoring of the ICT facilities and the Internet for safeguarding purposes… That was how my email to parents […]
The Email, The Good Advice and The Staff Stupidity
As with many other organisations, email is a main tool of communication for all people. Unfortunately, a large majority of these emails are just spam. The official advice for spam emails is to avoid opening any attachments or clicking on any links that are given. However, it seems that not everyone follows this advice. Today, […]
The New Room
I have been at my current workplace for 4 and a half years. My colleague joined me in January 2015. For all of that time, I have been working out of this office: It measured 3 meters by 5 meters. In reality, it was a room at the end of a corridor. While we had […]
iThings
Like many other schools around the world, our one has finally joined the iPad group too. While I’m still yet to be convinced that these devices will revolutionise learning (I believe they complement current teaching methods better), giving staff shiny new things will always keep them happy. Our school has gone with 30 iPad Air […]
The Unexpected Delivery
The school Summer holidays are coming. Where I work it’s just over two weeks before the school breaks up, and I’m looking forward to the peace and quiet that comes with it. One of the (many) jobs that’s due to happen over the holidays is the replacement of the computers that staff use in their […]