I appreciate that DfE Technical Standards have been around for a while now, but in the last few months a few more have been added, and I wanted to do a little post on why I think they are very important, and mark an important step in technology in schools. Read more…
I couldn’t do a role that meant I had to do the exact same thing in the exact same order day in day out. I’d get frustrated and bored. I like to find new ways of doing things, of enhancing and developing experiences and fine tuning as things evolve. That’s Read more…
On January 1st, I start in my new role at Concero, after 9 years and 9 months of my previous role at Lourdes IT and it’s predecessors, I wanted to share what a fantastic time I have had since starting the role – with a little bit of history and Read more…
When the pandemic struck, we got devices out as fast as possible across our trust, and this meant we were not as good as we should have been with naming conventions. It’s quite hard to change things once done in Endpoint Manager and intune, so I have been wondering for 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…
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…
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…