by Ian Addison | Nov 15, 2014 | Android Apps, blogposts
Google Drive has been around since the middle of 2012 and although at first I was sceptical, it really has come into its own this week with the tablets. Every one of our tablets has Google Drive installed and is set to go to the tablets@ourschoolname.co.uk account...
by Ian Addison | Nov 15, 2014 | Android Apps, blogposts
To enable us to blog on our Android tablets, we have installed WordPress. We already have a self-hosted WordPress site so this is by far the best app to use to help us blog directly from the tablets. Once installed, it will ask you to sign in. This is for users with a...
by Ian Addison | Nov 15, 2014 | Android Apps, blogposts, Hardware
I blogged before about how we have setup our Android tablets so that we can manage them and how we have installed Meraki to do this. I have had questions about what we have done next. There has been an interesting learning curve, it hasn’t been difficult, in...
by Ian Addison | Nov 1, 2014 | Blogging, blogposts
There is an old post where I listed the plugins that we use on our school blog to keep it ticking over and after a few emails with different people recently, and considering it has been three years since that post, I thought I should update it. At school, our blog...
by Ian Addison | Nov 1, 2014 | blogposts, Hardware
In my last post, I wrote about setting up Meraki to manage our Android tablets. In this post I thought I would go through the physical hardware side from unboxing the tablets to having them setup and ready to play with. As soon as the tablets are turned on, there is...
by Ian Addison | Oct 28, 2014 | blogposts, Hardware
Since posting about our tablet devices, I have received a range of questions about their management so I decided to write two blog posts about how we have set them up and managed them within our school. These are similar steps for our Apple and Android devices. We...
by Ian Addison | Oct 18, 2014 | blogposts, Google Apps, Hardware
Following on from Part 1 where I talked about the physical setting up, this post will talk look at the Google Apps Dashboard and the settings that are currently available. Be aware, this is Google. They change regularly. If it changes a lot, I will update this guide....
by Ian Addison | Oct 18, 2014 | blogposts, Google Apps, Hardware
As mentioned in a previous post, we have just purchased over 100 Chromebooks. These have been a winner so far and the feedback has been fantastic. I have had questions via Twitter asking how we manage them and what you get for the Chrome Management License fee (it...
by Ian Addison | Oct 6, 2014 | Blogging, blogposts
I received this tweet today. I’ve been having a few chats over Twitter with Mr Radburn over recent weeks and I am pleased that he is finally at the point where he is talking to staff about blogs.. But he asks a sensible question, how do you share blogs with...
by Ian Addison | Sep 30, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Hardware, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Following on from my last post where I talked about our ICT journey and where we had come from, this post will discuss our approach to Chromebooks. I have had a Chromebook at home, as well as desktop PCs, for about 3 years. I must say that it was a freebie for doing...
