The University of Portsmouth and their partners have been awarded funding by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) to investigate and develop good practice for shared IT services across education providers in Portsmouth. This blog will track our journey throughout our project, hopefully providing a helpful resource to others in the Higher Education sector on the opportunity presented by the new legislative provisions for Cost Sharing Groups.
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Westover Pilot
The Westover Pilot kicked off on Monday and with great success! The kids thought Santa had come early and the teachers are very excited to learn more and use the Chromebooks to their full potential. We are currently setting up Google Classroom for the teachers and helping source various apps that will meet their curriculum and SEN needs.
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Schools investigation update
We have been busy visiting our local schools and colleges in Portsmouth, currently we are gathering information about their ITC provision and support, and doing a lot of listening, to see what hot issues are out there.
Portsmouth schools, If you have not heard from us yet, please drop us a message and we will get right back to you.
This is a really exciting opportunity to do something that could bring real value to education providers in Portsmouth, and ultimately all of our pupils.
Portsmouth schools, If you have not heard from us yet, please drop us a message and we will get right back to you.
This is a really exciting opportunity to do something that could bring real value to education providers in Portsmouth, and ultimately all of our pupils.
Pilot update
Over the last few months the project have been busily working on the first pilot with Westover Primary school.
We begin classes using Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks next week (Nov 10th), more information on that soon.
We have also installed a wifi in a box solution to underpin the Google pilot.
I will post information on both of these as soon as we have completed our investigations.
We begin classes using Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks next week (Nov 10th), more information on that soon.
We have also installed a wifi in a box solution to underpin the Google pilot.
I will post information on both of these as soon as we have completed our investigations.
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