* Posts by Mark Whelan

3 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2009

Inside the iPad mini: Pray you never have to open one

Mark Whelan

Re: Where is the GPS chip again?

And where's the GPS in MS Surface RT..?

From www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/26/surface_review/

"Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 are included, but not GPS or mobile broadband – two omissions which have caused disappointment among some potential early adopters."

Surprising lack of complaints about this in the comments...

Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad

Mark Whelan
Headmaster

RTF Post

This is an INDEPENDENT school, numptie nae-brain.

They control their own budgets and raise their own funds.

How gov scapegoats systems for man-made errors

Mark Whelan

Too much speculation...

Not enough detail in the article to support a number of assertions made here, except one.

SIMS has been implemented in many LAs with very little user training - this refers to the updated version which is SIMS.net, not the older SIMS which was hosted within the school.

So, as Admin staff are very stretched, they will use the most familiar methods that they know to complete a task.

It is likely (my 6-pennorth of speculation) that:

The deceased flag was set on the database as stated by the head,

The pupil list was exported from SIMS so that a Word mail-merge could be completed in the time allowed.

i know reports are available, but my experience in schools has shown that if staff don't know how to use them they won't be used.

Time to get back to lurking...