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Your Guide to Education Devices from Dynabook and Stone
Every school is unique; filled with a diverse range of users, learning environments, and user requirements. That’s why Dynabook have developed a comprehensive portfolio of flexible, affordable, and easy-to-manage laptops for every aspect of education, to help schools meet the needs of all students, teachers, and non-teaching staff. Education devices have to tick a number of boxes. They need the endurance to last the demanding school day, the quality components to ensure seamless learning, pl
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Lenovo's LanSchool Partners with DNSFilter to Offer Schools Affordable Content Filtering & Threat Protection
LanSchool and DNSFilter provide powerful digital safety solutions at education-only pricing LanSchool is announcing a partnership with DNSFilter to keep schools and students safer from harmful online content and cyber threats, whether learning happens in the classroom or remotely. This partnership provides enterprise quality features at affordable, education-only pricing — building on LanSchool’s 30-year commitment to enhance student safety. As one of the only AI-driven solutions on the m
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Digital Strategy Guide for Schools - Version 2 Out Now!
With the disruption to education caused by COVID-19 creating an uncertain educational future ahead, it’s more crucial than ever that all school stakeholders can come together effectively to create a digital strategy that incorporates how edtech can be used effectively in-school and remotely. Recent events have prompted the authors of the immensely popular ‘Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’ – Mark Anderson (ICT Evangelist) and Al Kingsley (Chair of a multi-academy Trust and M
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#ITjustworks - Monday 20th July
EduGeek moderator Abid Patel (@Zoom7000) will be launching his Google Certified Innovator project #ITjustworks on Monday 20th July! #ITjustworks is an event that focuses on digital strategy and celebrates the digital transformation journeys that schools have embarked on. Attendees will hear from global educators sharing success stories of digital transformation and how EdTech can and has really supplemented and enriched learning for pupils. The event will also outline the key steps and
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Google Meet Roadmap Webinar - Watch on-demand
We are aware that many educational institutions in the UK are making decisions about lesson delivery for future hybrid/remote learning, especially in the context of the DfE’s guidance on school re-opening. In response, we will be holding a Google Meet Roadmap Webinar on 15th July at 12:30pm to provide schools, colleges and universities with a clear picture on future features in Google Meet, highlighting those that will fall in free G Suite for Education and those that will be included in the
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NetSupport - Digital Strategy Guide - Version 2 Out Now!
Digital Strategy Guide - Version 2 Out Now! With the disruption to education caused by COVID-19 creating an uncertain educational future ahead, it’s more crucial than ever that all school stakeholders can come together effectively to create a digital strategy that incorporates how edtech can be used effectively in-school and remotely. Recent events have prompted the authors of the immensely popular ‘Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’ – Mark Anderson (ICT Evangelist) and
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Reducing the skills shortage and preparing the future workforce with STEM education
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics pervade every aspect of modern life. Commonly referred to as STEM, these fields are the drivers behind innovation, which is critical in our globalised culture that experiences constant technological, societal, and economic change. STEM enables us to revolutionise the way we research, facilitate growth, and overcome challenges, helping us achieve breakthroughs in medicine, combat climate change, build our economy and more. However, there is a s
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Remote teaching and learning with NetSupport School
Did you know… if your school has a virtual (RDP) environment, you could provide a sense of continuity for your students by leading teaching and learning with NetSupport School while they’re working at home. Many IT teams have already ensured their schools have a virtual environment for remote administration of their technology. The good news for teachers and students is that NetSupport School can also be run in this environment and used just as it would be in lessons. Teaching and learning
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Free 30 day trial of TALAXY now available
It is business as usual for TASC Software and we continue to support all our schools during lockdown. Requests for TALAXY demonstrations have been high which is great however organising webinars for multiple staff in individual schools has been difficult for many of our contacts; using TASC Software products in schools is rarely one person's decision. We want to make the processes as easy as possible and to assist, we have a demo site available - https://demo.talaxy.app - for all to 'have a g
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Complimentary LanSchool Air licenses to help lessen the impact of Coronavirus closures
As former educators, parents, sons and daughters, the team at LanSchool knows how disruptive the impact of Coronavirus has been to so many across the globe. We appreciate that you are taking immediate measures to protect the health and well-being of staff and students, and we want to support schools during this uncertain and challenging time. Many have asked if LanSchool Air can help support emergency distance learning plans - and the answer is yes! LanSchool are offering additional compl
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NetSupport Radio goes live with key shapers and shakers in education
NetSupport Radio (from NetSupport, the global experts in school IT solutions and official broadcaster of BETT 2020) has invited educators, edtech experts and education specialists to discuss and debate a range of the hottest topics in education on a live radio show, broadcasting on 22nd of April from 7.00 – 9.30pm. The show panellists will cover: • 7.00 – 7.45 pm: The future shape of edtech – What have recent events taught us about the future shape of edtech in schools? • 7.45 – 8
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Microsoft Resources for Teams Users/Administrators
If you administer, or use Microsoft Teams for remote learning then there is some great news! Microsoft have reached out to us and have created a whole bunch of resources to help you better administer Teams, as well as providing a lot of very helpful links to other resources that are designed to give you the assistance you may require in your administration of Teams and for teachers using Teams for remote learning. • Teams FAQ’s • Best practices for school leaders creating teams and channels
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Google Distance Learning Events and Support
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GOOGLE VIRTUAL OFFICE HAS NOW CHANGED AS THE DfE PAID SUPPORT PROGRAM IS TAKING OVER. YOU CAN STILL CONTACT GOOGLE TO GET VIRTUAL SUPPORT BY CONTACTING THEM VIA THIS WEB FORM HERE** We know it’s an exceptionally challenging time for schools and, like many other school leaders you may be looking to improve or upgrade your distance learning provision over the Easter holidays. The team here at Google for Education would like to help. From April 16th, we will be
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Intelligence Hosting Services - 6 Months Free Cloud Backup
We at Intelligence Hosting Services have had a think about how we can support the public sector during these difficult times and we're willing to donate some of our data centre space... To help schools and colleges reduce their IT costs during the COVID-19 crisis, we're offering all educational institutions 10TB of Veeam Cloud Connect Backup and Recovery Disk Space for 6 months completely free of charge. To take advantage of this offer simply connect your infrastructure by either installi
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Helpful EduGeek Coronavirus Related Threads
Given the current situation throughout the world as regards the current Coronavirus outbreak, we have created a few threads to help you all in both the professional capacity and on the personal level and hopefully these threads will guide both you and your schools at this uncertain time If you are new to EduGeek please be aware that we do insist that you use netiquette at all times and refrain from profanity as your posts will be removed should they be reported to us. We are a professional fo
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Google Advice for Schools and Remote Learning
In the light of the Covid19 situation Google have very kindly contacted us to let you all know about the following guides and advice they have available for setting up G Suite and remote teaching: Google G Suite for Education Quickstart IT Setup Guide Google Education distant learning advice Advice for teachers on teaching from home For these and more helpful Google links, please read James Leonards post here. Please feel free to pass these links on to colleagues and teaching staff
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Utilising technology to unlock limitless learning with Stone
Technology is a key factor in effectively personalising learning to meet the unique needs of every individual. Research shows that personalised learning can maximise student success and help prepare students for the evolving future workplace. To support personalised learning at scale, teachers need both the tools and time to put students at the centre of their own learning. With easy-to-manage technology from Microsoft Education and affordable Windows 10 devices, school IT teams can seamlessl
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Education Support Professionals 2020 Salary Survey
The UK IT for Education Salary Survey curated by ESP We at ESP are very pleased to go live with a UK salary survey, with the support of our friends at EduGeek.net. Have you ever wondered if you are being paid correctly compared to your peers, not necessarily in your own team of course but compared to neighbouring schools or other education sections? Do you wonder where your next career move should be? Sure you can see salaries for new posts advertised, but do you understand the
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Got a HPE SAS SSD? Patch it now!
HPE have announced a pretty crazy SAS SSD problem with some of their drives where they fail at 32,768 hours of operation (i.e., 3 years, 270 days 8 hours) if you dont update to the latest firmware. If you have any of these drives and the firmware version is older than HPD8 you should patch them asap as when they fail all data is lost and the drive becomes inoperable. You can check your drives uptime by following these steps: Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) - Quick Guide to Determine
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PaperCut makes BYOD printing free for everyone
PaperCut makes market-leading BYOD printing free for everyone Please find below an announcement from our sponsor PaperCut This week we made our flagship BYOD printing feature, PaperCut Mobility Print™, a free standalone product. Today we want to share why we did that. First some background (in case you’re not familiar with what Mobility Print does). Mobility Print enables easy printing from Chromebook, Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows devices in any combination
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Save up to 40% of your budget with Global ICT Connections
The platform for I.T. managers and procurement officers If you have responsibility for procurement and tendering services in your I.T. public sector role, you’ll know how crucial it is to get just the right service provider at just the right price. Squeezed budgets do not allow for much wriggle room for purchasing, so finding the right fit and saving money is asking the impossible, right? Absolutely not. With Global ICT Connections your public sector entity will position i
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NetSupports Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education
'A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education' - out now! For those of you on half-term, why not read NetSupport's new free guide to creating a Digital Strategy, available to download today, written by Mark Anderson (ICT Evangelist) and Al Kingsley (Chair of a multi-academy Trust and MD of NetSupport). Every school identifies that it has a need for technology. And technology used in the right way can have a positive impact. But at the same time, with financial budgets and pressures
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EduGeek Members Offer - Get NetSupport Notify for only £1 per licence!
Get NetSupport Notify for only £1 per licence! NetSupport is offering EduGeek members an exclusive ‘back to school’ offer on its desktop alerting and notification solution, NetSupport Notify! Until the end of September, members can gain NetSupport Notify for only £1 per perpetual licence! NetSupport Notify is a solution specifically designed to help schools boost their communication and support their emergency and lockdown procedures. Using NetSupport Notify, schools can deliver one-w
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PaperCut Print Deploy To The Rescue
You know the drill. The phone rings, the email chimes, someone walks up while you're making a coffee. "Hey, we've bought a new printer. Can you install it for us?" And this is your thought process. This is what goes through your mind in the nano-seconds it takes to respond to that … question: Please tell me it's networkable. I hope its DHCP stack is reliable. It better work with a DHCP reservation. What’s its duty cycle? This department has some heavy users. What capacity toner does
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NetSupport Launches new DNA 'how to' Video
Since there are so many features within NetSupport DNA (the school Network and IT Management solution with Safeguarding and optional Classroom Management), we decided to create a that provides a bit more detail about each core feature – from distributing software and updates using ‘push’ and ‘pull’, to a comprehensive range of tools for Network Managers to use on an immediacy basis (such as a full view of all active online devices to remote control) – and much more. In addition, th
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