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Office 365: Putting Pedagogy First

By |July 30th, 2015|Categories: Blog|

During my time as a teacher, Head of Teaching & Learning and ICT Education Specialist, I have come across schools who have successfully implemented new technologies into the classroom, as well as those that have [...]

Office 365: Putting Pedagogy First

By |July 21st, 2015|Categories: Blog|

During my time as a teacher, Head of Teaching & Learning and ICT Education Specialist, I have come across schools who have successfully implemented new technologies into the classroom, as well as those that have been less successful. From this, I know that it all begins with the approach. In the case of Office 365, I have seen schools implementing it simply for the OneDrive storage. While this is a useful feature, some schools just aren’t aware of the many other features which create supportive and collaborative learning environments, nor considered the importance of supporting teachers with classroom application and the pedagogy behind using Office 365.

Sharepoint 2016 review: Benefits to Schools

By |July 7th, 2015|Categories: Blog|

Ok, so SharePoint 2016 is still a while away, in fact it’s currently slated for release sometime mid next year (Q2 2016), However there have been a lot of recent discussions around its features and capabilities as well heated discussions about on-premises v’s cloud. Most schools who decided to be early adopters of SharePoint 2016 will start the planning and project early in 2016 (Feb / March) or even later this year. While not a project to be tackled lightly, the benefits are huge and well worth the effort.

If assessment is the silent killer of learning…it’s time to put on a bullet proof vest

By |June 15th, 2015|Categories: Blog|

It is staggering the number of teachers and educational leaders that comment how frustrated they are in the lack of educational change taking place, despite the 21st Century Learning mantra. And I get it. We are talking a lot, but it feels like not a great deal is happening. Perhaps this is because while educational leaders share a common understanding of the importance of change, innovation and preparing students for the ‘real-world’, there isn’t a clear cut way of leading this agenda within our schools in a way that impacts directly on student outcomes. To go along with this, some feel completely ham-strung by change in government policy, curriculum frameworks and the standardised testing agenda. This massively influences the way teachers design assessment, often to the detriment of learning to such end that is has been referred to as the ‘silent killer of learning’. So who’s got a bullet proof vest?

Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

By |May 27th, 2015|Categories: Blog|

Innovation and constant change have been key features of ICT for decades but schools have not always been early adopters of trends that have emerged in other public and private sector enterprise environments. One of the fastest growing areas of ICT development and deployment at the moment is cloud computing, so here are some thoughts on how cloud computing concepts can be utilised in education technology environments.

Schools adopting the cloud – the people side of things

By |May 21st, 2015|Categories: Blog|

I'm frequently brought in to Schools to consult and work as a cloud architect and I've recently run into problems getting school staff to engage with cloud adoption projects. Thinking back, this has actually happened for quite a number of years and while it’s not as prevalent as it used to be, I've found myself trying to sell the cloud not to our customers, but to the engineers, consultants and internal IT staff who seem to think it would do them out of a job or reduce their ownership and power in their own environments.

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