Blog commitment

I am making a commitment here…
I am going to attempt to write a blog post every day for this blog. It has such potential to allow out team to share some of the things it is involved in.
Hopefully, some others in the team will be inspired to write and contribute – hint, hint…
I have just [...]

Primary Goals for ITS in 2009

Another challenging year begins – possibly more so than any year before. The 2 primary goals for the IT Services team this year are:

Fordrough Campus

2009 will see the opening of the new Fordrough Campus (and the closure of East) – City College has had several new campuses in recent years, but nothing approaching this scale. [...]

North West Skills Academy

Click on the picture above to see the pictures taken from the IT Services visit to NWSA.

north west skills academy

as you may have seen – the building is now ours – we’re in

…and it looks good.
Now comes the job of making it look good – inside… which is where we come in.
The (120) PCs have been ordered – as have the (18) ILT installs…. we are also going for some large(ish) LCD screens [...]

north west skills academy

blimey !
golden hillock took ages… and the developers were always coming up with excuses, and delays… never gonna be on target from the very start ……… go take a look at north west skills.
very much ON TARGET…. and it looks really good !
its is coming on really well…. when i’m back from my holidays, i [...]

north west skills

so – here we go again… the next challenge – North West Skills Academy (on stour street)

i’ve just received the plans – which are now on the intranet
we’ll have a chat about this next friday when we meet – current planned date to receive the building is September 26th – with a ‘go live’ of [...]

the golden hillock

next time you go to golden hillock, take a read of the flip chart they have on the first floor landing…. this has been set up so that students can write their thoughts on the new building… there are pages of great comment after great comment – really positive stuff.
it seems that there is a [...]

gha – photos…

hopefully it will stay like this for years to come…

one of the ‘learning bars’…

classroom 12 – a different approach ! the smartboard and projector you can see is the same as in every other classroom – very smart !

the IT classroom 1…

and IT classroom 2…

and the man who has pulled it all together…

Well done Phil [...]

a great day

i always like days like today !
a big install
you have a job to do, and you just do it… really like the way everyone gets stuck in. you always have set backs, thats the nature of the job – but we got a lot done today… and it was very satisfying.
84 pcs, 84 monitors, and [...]

how to spend £200,000

its taken me 2 days !
i’m sure there are many ways you would like to spend £200K, but check out the spreadsheet on the intranet.
this is all the kit that needed to be ordered today for the new Golden Hillock Academy.
we get the building on the 30th march, and the “go-live” date is the 23rd [...]