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  • The Data Protection Interlude – Apple

    And so I take a quick interlude from my look at the recent Apple Workshops to think about a few queries some schools have raised in the last few weeks about Apple and Data Protection. When it comes to their OS X devices (desktops and laptops) Apple have had some built in encryption for some…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops pt 3

    We have now covered the most simplistic methods which many schools are using to manage iOS devices, and frequently these are shared devices we are talking about, not individual devices owned by the user. The issues that this can bring is that as you grow with the number of devices you have or reduce the…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops pt 2

    The workshop spent some time looking at the range of tools to support and manage iOS devices and so I’ll run through some of the areas which it covered. I’ll also try to highlight where most of us are when it comes to many schools trying to do ad-hoc management of devices. For the sake…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – The Workshops

    There were 3 streams at the event and, although I really wanted to buck the stereotype and get more involved in the content creation stream, I really had to go to the infrastructure stream as there are so many questions and queries about Mobile Device Management (MDM) that needed looking into. I blog fairly extensively…

  • Apple Leadership Summit – Intro

    It is good to see Apple throw themselves into the education arena a bit more after having been notoriously shy over the last few years. With the corporate stance on attending tradeshow meaning that the official presence at BETT has not been a possibility it was wonderful to see a number of combined ASE/ADE/AASP stands,…

  • Opening up your options…

    In these days of strain budgets, restricted investment and and tough decisions we have a bit of a bidding war to get the attention of schools. With Google Apps for Education being heavily pushed through grass roots and national projects we now see some of the counter-blow from Microsoft. It was interesting to see today…

  • The Dark Arts of Twitter

    There is a strange means of communication which has arisen over time, drawing from the days of yore where the cackle and banter of the gossip competed with the holler of the Town Crier, when word of mouth was the key to the support or demise of whatever plan happened in the village … except…

  • My issues with BYOD

    Firstly, let me state that I am an advocate for BYOD and anything else which gets more technology into the hands of learners so that it can be used *where appropriate* and that will also include some work to help SLT, Teachers and learners understand when it can be appropriate. As part of that I…

  • Google Teacher Academy UK 2012

    “I would like to thank my wife, my parents, my teachers, the cat from 2 doors down who walks across the roof at 2 am in the morning, the excitable children who need to be spoken to when trying to lift their friends up by their ears … ” Ok, so it is not really…

  • Rethinking ICT #ICT500

    Inspired by Chris Leach‘s collaborative model for Rethinking ICT. There are few things in the world which are likely to drive more wedges between the teaching community than someone saying, “but you have to teach X in this way” … no matter whether it is a central figure from which Department looks after schools, a…