Monday, 29 September 2014
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Westover Primary School will be our first pilot.
Great news :-)
Annie Gunthorpe (Head Teacher) at Westover Primary School is hugely positive about Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks, and we're currently fleshing out the details of a small pilot to be run in the school - potentially after the half term holidays.
Following successful initial meetings with Westover Primary, work is underway to set up a formal arrangement for the provision of trial Chromebook devices and Google applications to the school. The intention is to pilot 30 devices within two classes at different age groups, so that we can compare the experiences of two groups with very different needs. Alongside this, the project team are identifying metrics and areas of feedback that can be used to compare the IT experiences of the staff and students before, during, and after the pilot.
We're still figuring out the details of what, how, who and when. I'm really looking forwards to seeing how children and teachers react to this technology first-hand and will post more updates as this work progresses!
Remember, additional pilot schools are still being sought to accompany Westover on this investigation.
Presentation to Portsmouth schools IT managers
Today, we presented an overview of the project and our key aims to the new Network Managers Group, facilitated by the IS department within the Portsmouth City Council, the presentation went well and we are starting to gather more interest from Schools wishing to engage with the project on our investigation.
We really need schools within Portsmouth to complete our initial fact finding questionnaire, link as promised below:
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Our Hefce bid
More details on Hefce's other Shared Services investigations (including ours) can be found here: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/lgm/efficient/ss/
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