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[Snoop55]

Stephen, I'd also be interested in the address.  I use an online booking system here but it's setup to run within Learning Resources.  It was done this way to try and get teachers used to the idea of how Learning Resources actually worked.  I would love to see someone else's approach to it as although I thought ours was so easy to use it's hard to believe how someone can turn a two minute task into a siege.

[casper]

I just use a word document in the Learning Resources. It has a table setup as a timetable for my room and the teachers just put their name in the periods that they want to book.

[blondnotstupid]

We have given more space to our IT and Art students since C2K arrived.  Send an email to C2K help desk with user names and year groups and tell them what you want.  The first time I asked for this I was given a bit of a runaround and told that space would need to be taken from one area in order to move it to another - but now it's not a problem.



As for who does what in this wonderful network.  I work for a Voluntary Grammar where the academics get the points and I do the work.  We are just starting the job evaluation process through the Union (Unison).  This is long overdue and I live in hope that I might get paid a decent salary at the end of it.

[Angela]

Well guys I'm playing catch up with the site.  Told you Micheal you had a great idea with the site well done have you got in touch with the lads at Lismore I tried phoning a few times as I don't have their email address.



Anyway I am only an advanced user we have 2 managers so when the teachers have a problem they come to me I get the details pass it on the manager/teacher as our other manager is the principal, manager/teacher does all sims stuff. i do all the phoning to c2k, and any pupil problems which is all i can access with my profile. We also have a new stand alone network with 24 pcs which I maintain, we felt we needed a network of our own as c2k are so restrictive :twisted: .  I am also involved with the gcse media studies taking pupils out filming helping with editing etc.., outside projects like film making and macromedia flash, after school clubs, taking classes some times to run through word publisher etc.. and now they want me to run a course after school for 6 weeks for teachers starting with powerpoint, plus all the normal itc support stuff all makes my day interesting and definately not monotinous but I am finding it difficult to fit everything in.



Have any of yous heard the c2k system was tried in England but was eventually scrapped as it was too restrictive and became too expensive so they have reverted back to running their own network.



As for c2k doing away with technician jobs no way they still need a skivey in each school to runaround to try out the basics like "try a new power cable, try a new network cable then try it in another network point, can you get another user to log on to see if they have the same problems" etc... etc... etc... :x

[Si]

I really don' t have a lot to do myself. edit:  I was only given non-teaching rights on the C2k network not admin , so I have even less to do than I should have.



I make calls to C2K helpdesk, I reset passwords, give more printer credits to pupils, I repair and improve the legacy network ( which I changed from the awful RM network to Linux over the summer).  I do the back-ups every night, and do any research for the IT teachers.  The teachers here at Lurgan College can keep me pretty busy as most of them have the computer literacy of a goldfish.



I end up setting up the Assembly Hall or other rooms for presentations with data projectors.  The school, in its wisdom, has decided to send me on a course and do the Portable Applicance Testing for the school, which is as interesting as it sounds.  



But basically, when things are going smoothly, I don't have a whole lot to do.  I usually end up looking at forums like this one

[Stephen]

The address for the booking system I use is http://folders.devizes.wilts.sch.uk/download/bookingsystem/2.3.asp



I found that while checking out the forum at http://icttechnician.com/



There are a few others suggested on the icttechnician site, just do a search in the forum for the word booking