It’s January 2021 and we are about to enter into further hybrid learning, but has anything actually changed since the first lockdown for schools? Devices Well, the DfE have given out some more devices. They have also had to cut back massively on original allocations, and the devices they are Read more…
I always enjoy reading the years in review for those people I follow online. I like the mix of professional and personal; and to see how they have got on – so I thought I would be unique, like them, and post mine. A lot of these blogs reviewing the Read more…
I suffer from Anxiety and Depression. I have done for some time now – a series of events including end of my marriage and other set backs has left me feeling things I never thought I would. I got a diagnosis last year after quite a bad time of things Read more…
In February I was feeling good. I had the time to work on digital strategies refreshes for customers and our own MATs. My focus was to usher in a change in mindset for schools. Many were finding themselves having to replace equipment after years of tough budgets – but too Read more…
I’ve been tweeting a lot last night and this morning especially about why Zoom is crap, and why I can’t understand those people or schools using it when they have GSuite and Office365 just sat there. But then I realised I can understand it after getting many many replies. When Read more…
I still can’t believe, that in a matter of less then 2 weeks, schools have fully adopted Office365, devices have been bought and rolled out via Intune and azure, software has been purchased to increase adoption in schools and I’ve delivered training consecutively to full rooms. It only took a Read more…
I’ve always avoided using the term managed service to describe what we do at Lourdes IT – lots of directly employed Edu IT staff see it as a horrific term that means they will loose their jobs and autonomy. The thing is, they are right to an extent. Those things Read more…
It’s been a busy few months at work, I mean, when is it not. But in the last year, Lourdes IT, the team I lead, has more then doubled in size and in the schools we support. This rapid growth has been rewarding, and challenging. With more people and more Read more…
Right now there is a serious recruitment problem for IT support in Schools. There is simply not the people with the skills and the experience going into schools, because the wages are so low, the expectations and demands are so (often unreasonably) high. Support staff, in whatever capacity, are often Read more…
The role of IT Support teams in schools have changed significantly – in many academies and trusts they are being seen as something that can create an income or spread influence by the powers that be. The workload is increasing and, as centralisation takes hold, the day to day nature Read more…