Thinking of ditching your physical server and adopting computing in the cloud? Here Andrew Fergus of Lexel Education Solutions investigates seven server roles that your school should consider for migrating to the cloud. 1. Email services Email is the first function schools traditionally have looked to move to the cloud. […]
Technology doesn’t come cheap and paying for it is a challenge all schools face. One option is to lease. This lets you not only spread the costs but also enjoy other benefits, as Ross Fodie of Advaro explains. There’s more to ICT that just technology; it’s more about […]
ACG City Campus chose eTV because of its access to local content, particularly news and current affairs, and its ability to be a repository for its own videos, writes Debbie Williams. What are the benefits to using your own content? The main advantage is that students are listening […]
How can educators support ‘personalised’ and ‘social’ learning for both their learners and themselves? Kristina Hoeppner believes she has the answer: MyPortfolio. The New Zealand Curriculum encourages social and personalised learning as it emphasises community engagement, collaboration among students, relationship building, and learning to manage oneself. There are […]
As the digital world continues to evolve it’s important to keep asking ‘why’ schools should use technology and to keep thinking deeply about the opportunities these tools give our teachers and students, writes Carolyn Stuart. When schools first began to consider using digital technologies to support learning, there […]
After a year’s hard work from students at Alfriston College (right), a new exhibition was opened at Auckland War Memorial Museum: Gallipoli in Minecraft. Working in collaboration with museum staff and assisted by teacher Mark Sutherland, they utilised its First World War collections to re-create the landscape of […]
HP has launched its Rural Schools Competition for the second year, giving rural New Zealand primary schools the chance to win a share of $20,000 worth of HP products and support. It’s again partnering with Rural Women New Zealand offering rural primary schools the chance to enter the […]
A headteachers group has threatened to report parents who let their children play 18-rated games to the police and social services for neglect. Nantwich Education Partnership, a group of 14 primary and two secondary schools in Cheshire, wrote to parents last month after finding some children had been […]
Minecraft will be given to secondary schools in Northern Ireland as part of a project organised by the annual CultureTECH festival and funded by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. The hugely popular building-block game will be supplied to 200 schools and 30 libraries and community organisations, which […]
N4L (Network for Learning) has been named a finalist for two categories in the New Zealand’s Hi-Tech Awards. Managed Network – Finalist for Best Public Sector Technology Solution Specifically designed for schools, and built to accommodate 800,000+ connections, the Managed Network provides fast and predictable internet with uncapped […]
Award winning digital and creative education lab, The Mind Lab by Unitec achieved a double last week. A new lab was officially opened in Wellington by Hon Steven Joyce – and it was unveiled as a finalist in the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards last night as one of the country’s […]
While the whole of New Zealand has been rightly obsessing over the Cricket world cup over the past few weeks, a group of primary school girls in Northland have been learning some valuable skills for future careers with the help of another kind of cricket; namely, a clever […]
