On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:36:52PM +0000, Colin McQueen wrote:
"Mark Evans"
wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:16:48PM +0000, Colin McQueen wrote:
ian
wrote: <snip>
thing to do. Its a matter of patience, eating the elephant a bite at a time and not giving up because the task seems impossible.
I agree with this. Its important to not come across as a raving evangelist or people will be scared off. Value the work people in
Unless you are either a) an LEA advisor b) evangelising some proprietary product c) both
I'm not sure what you mean here? Are you saying an LEA advisor should never advise using a proprietary product?
I'm saying that there often appears to be a double standard when it comes to promoting software. Also there do appear to be cases of a conflict of interest involving LEA advisors having connections to suppliers.
Also if LEA advisors are so powerful I suggest that that's where the targetting has to be then. Are there any other LEA advisors on this
Sounds like a good idea.
list besides me?
schools are doing with all their fears and despite that they may supporting a different system, that you may have a negative view on.
People actually working in schools often have little or no voice when it comes to LEAs and especially RBC.
Possibly true but that's not my experience. I felt I was heard. Our school was used as a testing ground by the LEA regarding access through their firewall for example. Groups of ICT teachers in our LEA are put
How do you expect *teachers* to know about things like firewall rules?
onto panells to work with the LEA ICT staff to discuss issues. Of course decisions are not made for the LEA by the teachers.
Unless this was a very unusual LEA there would have been several schools where network managemnt was the responsibility of non teaching staff. Were these people consulted? -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763