Resources

A (growing) list of some resources I have used and can recommend.

Education technology:

• OneNote, Class Notebook, Learning Tools
• Microsoft Teams
• PaperCut – print management

Operating System Deployment:

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• Driver Automation Tool – for use with MDT/SCCM

Communities:

• Microsoft Tech Community
• Microsoft Education Community
• MITIE, ITMEL – IT in education
• Spiceworks – IT Pro
• USQ IT Students’ Network

Web/hosting:

• iwantmyname – simplest domain hosting I’ve found
• DigitalOcean – my referral link
• WordPress
• CloudFlare
• Discourse – clean yet powerful forums

Personal gear:

• Lenovo – great deals on great laptops
• Xaomi – cheap yet perfectly functional Android phones (read my post on why you should consider a basic smartphone)
• Targus – great backpacks

Study:

• OneNote – can I recommend this twice?…
• EndNote – simple referencing

Productivity:

• paint.net
• Notepad++ – text editor with syntax highlighting for multiple languages
• Pencil – GUI prototyping
• draw.io – powerful web-based diagramming (with desktop option)

Android apps:

• Fing
• Wifi Analyzer
• BOM – Australian Weather
• Pong – just for fun