Recently N4L was given the interim contract to offer an ICT Advisory service for schools while an RFP process allowed the Ministry of Education to assess applications for a more permanent solution. This Interim ICT Advisory Service is fully funded by the Ministry of...
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As Pioneer Schools come to a close, what have we learned?
Over the last 5 weeks we have been working closely with the 15 schools participating in our Pioneer School programme for Pond. Some schools have done amazing work, coaxing even the most reluctant of teachers into Pond and some schools have been snowed under meaning...
Barry explains how the back end team work; Barry Dahlberg
Our technical teams often gets asked how they work and what sorts of technologies they are using and integrating - both for Pond and the Managed Network. Here is the first blog from our Dynamic Services team who are building Pond. I'm Barry Dahlberg and I head up a...
Flurries of feedback from our Pioneer Schools
Time saving. Helpful sites. Ways to share effectively. This is some of the feedback from our Pioneer Schools so far. We’re over 2 weeks into the Pioneer School programme and already we’ve had a great response from schools and seen a spike in people splashing about in...
Educators in Pond can now invite their friends and colleagues to the party
We are excited to announce we have just launched the next phase of Pond rollout, with educators who are in Pond being able to invite their colleagues or friends from within the education sector. This means that Pond is set swell again with a new round of fresh faces...
700 schools are already connected to the Managed Network
It’s time to celebrate as we have managed to blast through the targets set both by the Ministry of Education and ourselves with 700 schools now connected to the Managed Network! This means that the target of 700 schools, which was initially set to be reached by the...
Pond and Copyright: negotiating the waters
Since the concept of Pond was unveiled at ULearn conference in 2013 (then simply known as “the portal”) and the big reveal was given at the Festival of Education in March this year, there has been a thread of commentary, curiosity and some concern around copyright,...