Quite a while ago, I moved all of our student e-mail addresses to Google Apps for Education which was a really straightforward affair. We used a completely separate domain and so there was no complication. Their domain pointed straight at the Google servers and the staff domains pointed to the local Exchange servers. Since merging with […]
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Staff iPad Deployment
It’s been two months now since we deployed iPads to the staff. The staff have taken to the iPads enthusiastically and it is a pleasure to see them being used to fervently. Well, at least in the majority of cases! One of the first things we did was change our morning roll-call procedures so that […]
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Staff iPad Deployment – Day 4
On Tuesday afternoon, I staged a staff meeting to discuss future trends in education and what we as teachers needed to be looking at. The presentation was secondary, however, to the fact that there was a big reveal very soon into the presentation and each teacher got their own iPad. Thanks to an education special […]
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To Do
I have spent a fair amount of energy over the years trying to perfect a good “To Do” strategy. I say “perfect” but that’s misleading since it implies that I have a good system and that I am in the process of making it better. The real problem is that I have no system and […]
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Do Not Disturb
One of the things that excited me about iOS 6 was an automated “swich to silent” mode known as “Do Not Disturb”. This is a feature that was on my Sony Ericsson that dates back 9 years. That it took Apple another 8 to get it on their phones doesn’t please me entirely, but it […]