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DIGITAL PARENTING – TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND THE RISKS
(originally posted for Mobile Guardian) We always welcome working with schools on eSafety, especially when it comes with supporting agencies and schools in their delivery of Get Safe Online. That is one reason why Tony Sheppard, our new Technology Manager, took a trip to Chesterfield last week as Chesterfield Safer Neighbourhood Team were invited into…
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Why Information Security Standards make sense to School Leaders
Having worked with Learning Possibilities as a client, a consultant and as a Project Manager, I still find myself relating almost all my activities to the following phrase, “What Would School Leaders Think?” For most people in schools, awareness of Information Security standards is limited, and usually only heard about when talking about data protection…
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Do we *REALLY* know how much is spent on IT?
A tweet was posted by @MSETCHELL yesterday (mattianuk on EduGeek) about being asked to work out the cost of the entire network. This didn’t strike me as a strange request to be honest. It just seemed to be a standard pain-in-the-backside, paper-generating, unread-report-producing exercise … probably needed because of some arcane bid proposal which schools…
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Cloud Storage – update
This is still an ongoing discussion in several places and occasionally I get a prod to look at something and respond. In this case it was a thread on EduGeek (again) and so I responded. Below is a version of what I posted (with typos / language corrections) When considering the use of cloud storage there…
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Personal post with a smile
Sites and services like FB can allow people to take strength from each by sharing difficult times and happy times in their lives, so I thought I would add a happy one. Having recently moved jobs, moved house with Martine Sheppard and our little J and dealing with the stress this can bring (and dealing…