The author of the study Dr. John Spencer said: Becta-approved ICT
suppliers are selling equipment that they cant afford to support.
Its like buying a car and then having to employ your own full-time
mechanic to keep it on the road. www.publictechnology.net
Unable to pay commercial rates for support and burdened with over-complex
ICT Systems, most schools are forced to employ more technical support
staff and as a result spend over half their ICT budgets on salaries. The
report concludes the way forward is Open Source thin-client networks,
they dont get Windows viruses and can be managed by one person
from the server room.
Ossett School are inviting local key decision makers within education
to see and hear first hand how computer technology can and will in the
future, be effectively and economically employed in an educational environment.
Agenda
08:30 : Coffee
09:15 : 09:30 Introduction
09:30 : 10:00 Re-thinking technology in Education
10:00 : 10:30 Enabling the change of technology Thin Client
~ Netvoyager Technology Limited
10:30 : 10:45 Questions & Answers
10:45 : 11:00 Coffee
11:00 : 12:00 Enabling the change of technology Presentation Equipment/Video
Conferencing ~ Promethean
12:00 : 12:15 Questions & Answers
12:15 : 13:00 Lunch
13:00 : 14:00 Enabling the change of technology cont Virtualisation/Hosted
Services
14:00 : 14:15 Questions & Answers
14:15 : 14:30 Coffee
14:30 : 15:30 Enabling the change in technology Fujitsu
15:30 : 15:45 Questions & Answers
16:00 Finish
Venue i-Base Ossett School & Sixth Form College, Wakefield. Dates
24th, and 31st January 2008.
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