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  • The changing face of Data

    Change never stops. There is always something else. Kyu Shin Do. Kaizen. The latest thing I have a chance to work on, is to support schools as they get to grips with the changes that GDPR brings. But isn’t this another piece of red tape that will be a burden to schools? Well, yes, there…

  • 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…

  • Internet Safety Talking Point 2

    This is my latest blog post based on Scott McLeod’s 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. Over the next few weeks I am looking at each point to tease apart the ideals behind them, to try to see both sides of the discussion and to share examples about who others have work on the issues. A lot…

  • Internet Safety Talking Point 1

    In my last blog post I republished Scott McLeod’s 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. Over the next few weeks I am looking at each point to tease apart the ideals behind them, to try to see both sides of the discussion and to share examples about who others have work on the issues. A lot…

  • To Block or Not to Block, that isn’t the question!

    With kind permission I am reposting Scott McLeod‘s ‘Dangerously Irrelevant’ Blog Post about 26 Internet Safety Talking Points. I hope to then follow this up by looking at each point (one a day perhaps) to strip it down and look at both sides of the point. —————– For Leadership Day 2012, I thought I would gather in…

  • Early Adoption – do you plan?

    It is wonderful to continue to hear about people eager to look at the latest technology and see what a difference it makes in schools … and as an avid early adopter I do have to urge a note of caution at times … even to myself. It has been interesting to catch up with…

  • And the winner is … iOS6

    Today was another peak in the circus of an Apple Fanboi! The Apple World Wide Developer Conference always has some interesting things to see and today’s keynote was no different. There will always be some hype, some disappointment, some pragmatism and some anger … and different people will feel it about different things, even within…

  • 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…