I was fortunate enough to be teaching at Surrey University on Saturday and I feel the need to share my experience, why you ask because I saw innovation in action and it worked, not the case at my workplace where every barrier possible is popped in the way.
I arrived at 10:00 for a two hour lecture/tutorial walked in to the lecture room armed with memory stick and prayed. I needn't have worried. I touched a touch panel picked the tools I needed, down came a projector screen, on came the projector, up purred the PC and we were in business. I logged on with the username and password that had been emailed to me, got a friendly welcome; it even knew my name and I was in business. I requested internet access and it was there and low and behold when I popped in my memory stick with a presentation and some notes on 'it worked'. I was in heaven I had arrived early because you just don't know what to expect but thanks Surrey I was impressed.
Back to work on Monday, I'll leave my keystick at home forget about using any video or web 2.0 apps as for Google apps, you're having a laugh. Such is life.
2 comments:
Hi Steve,
Bring it on, the military could do with some of Surrey Universities IT!
I feel your frustration...as an IT manager I tried to introduce the use of memory sticks at my last establishment but could not overcome the security accreditation restrictions.
With large Defence cutbacks looming perhaps MOD should consider having a training wing inside a local university. Thats how we manage to get our hospital medical care now they shut down the Military hospitals!
Cheers Mark
The wheels keep turning, thanks for the input. I have just set a task in my PAR to get out of the office and visit a few MOD sites to see how they are getting at WEB 2.0 Apps I am upping the anti if you like wish me luck. :-)
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