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This June, the ‘Check it out!’ show is diving deep into the newest edtech services and solutions available to the education sector.

Each guest will get five minutes to showcase their solution LIVE – providing a burst of inspiration for schools.

Interested in entering for an opportunity to be featured?
https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/showcase

Welcome to another episode of #TipTopTipsEdu. In this episode I was thrilled to welcome Bukky Yusuf to the show. 

For those not aware of Bukky’s work you certainly will by the end of this episode. A secondary Science teacher by trade, Bukky is a blogger, coach, senior leader and has many strings to her bow as you’ll discover in the episode. 

Keeping things eighties themed with the questions in this episode, I prompted Bukky with several pertinent questions to try and gain some insights into areas and tips that would be of benefit to many educators. 

Here are the questions that we covered, see if you can spot the song references!

·       In a world where “it ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it”, what does that mean to you in terms of edtech and how do you apply that in practice?

·       Stop, collaborate and listen – when edtech provides us with so many opportunities to stop and be mindful, collaborate with colleagues and others and provide opportunities to listen, how would you recommend going about that?

·       We can sometimes see a few things blow up on social media with teachers – in a world where it’s important to show “a little respect” - how can we do that better as a teacher using #EduTwitter

·       Thinking about career planning and that sometimes, “The only way is up” - what advice would you give to an NQT looking to progress in their career? 

·       “If you could turn back time”, what tips would you give yourself about engaging with edtech companies and using their products in school?

As you might expect, these questions brought about some fantastic responses and conversations, but you’ll have to watch or listen to the episode to hear the insights shared!

Watch the episode back here:

https://youtu.be/ZzP4F1GIKbk

To learn more about Bukky, her work and her various social accounts, please visit Bukky’s blog at https://teachleadco.wordpress.com/ where you’ll find everything you need. You can also follow Bukky on Twitter here. Thanks to Bukky for taking some time out of her busy schedule to catch up and share her #TipTopTipsEdu on the show. Thank you! 

This interviews sees NetSupport's Head of Education, Mark Anderson, talking all things digital citizenship, online safety, social media, gaming and more with former Headteacher, Steven Rushforth. Now working as part of DiGii Social, a platform that aims to support learning in these aspects for children aged 11-14, Steven provided lots of useful insights into the whole agenda.

Responding to such questions asking for hints, tips and advice around mental health pressures from social media, online gaming, safeguarding and more, Steven’s insights proved really useful and are sure to be of interest to listeners of the NetSupport Radio.

Learn more about Steven and his work by visiting https://digiisocial.com/ 

In this interview, our Head of Education, Mark Anderson, got to talk about Maths and effective pedagogy for mobile learning with former Maths teacher, Rachel Dunsmore. Now an edupreneur with her own company, Arc Education (creators of a retrieval app for Maths), Rachel provided some interesting insights into the teaching of Maths and mobile learning in general. 

Responding to questions asking about how to deal with those who ‘don’t do Maths’, approaches to ensuring purposeful use of iPads, using iPads to teach Maths and how she came to develop her own app to support Maths learning, Rachel's insights proved really interesting and will be sure to resonate with listeners of NetSupport Radio. 

Learn more about Rachel and her work by visiting arceducation.co.uk 

The seventh episode of the ‘Check it out!’ show goes LIVE! This series helps schools discover new solutions in a fun, informative online show, hosted by Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (authors of ‘A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’).

Interested in being on the show? Al and Mark are now calling for contributors to the April episode. So, if you have a solution or service you would like school leaders and educators to hear about, please visit:  https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/showcase

You can also watch the show back here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMAGULtpNBw

Learn more about NetSupport Notify on #TipTopTipsEdu! 

Welcome to another episode of #TipTopTipsEdu! In this episode, we talk with our Technical Support Manager, Andy Earp, about all things NetSupport Notify where he shares his top five tips based upon some of the most frequent questions he’s asked about it. 

As explained in the episode, NetSupport Notify has lots of fantastic use cases in all sorts of organisations, including schools. From alerting people about emergencies to scheduled activities, kit reminders or even seeking help on behavioural issues from SLT callout – there are so many ways that Notify can help.

In the episode, Andy responded to the following five questions and shared some great resources too. Here are the five questions I asked Andy:

1.      Can I configure the Agents and Console via Group Policy?https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/configuring-the-netsupport-notify-server-details-for-notification-agents-and-consoles-by-group-policy-gpo/

2.      How to send notifications from a Web Console
https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/sending-notifications-from-a-web-page/

3.      Is it possible to make it so that messages are only sent to certain departments
https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-create-netsupport-notify-console-operators-and-specify-which-departments-they-can-send-notifications-to/

4.      Can I send notification to Agents across multiple sites?
https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/using-netsupport-notify-across-multiple-sites/

5.      Is it possible to send a Notification from a desktop Shortcut?
https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-send-pre-configured-notifications-from-a-desktop-shortcut-using-netsupport-notify/

Prefer to watch? You can watch this episode back on our youtube channel - https://youtu.be/l_-ehmFGc7k

In this live session, join Matt Jones and NetSupport's Head of Education, the ICT Evangelist, Mark Anderson to learn about the latest award-winning product from the NetSupport stable, classroom.cloud and how it can help your teachers and learners thrive whilst using technology to support learning.

Hear it all on NetSupport Radio or watch the show on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/4yPjhf-1MWU

To discover more about classroom.cloud, visit classroom.cloud or follow on twitter: @classroomcloud_

Al Kingsley (CEO of NetSupport and Chair of two Multi-Academy Trusts) is joined by Frank Catalano (EdSurge Columnist and Independent EdTech Strategy Consultant and Analyst) to discuss what education could look like after the pandemic. They consider a range of topics, from the reasons why some teachers are leaving the profession, EdTech confidence and teacher training, to mitigating learning loss, and a rise in IT asset management.

Hear it all on NetSupport Radio or watch the show on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hW06aSW0rO4.

To discover more about Frank, visit intrinsicstrategy.com or follow him on twitter: @FrankCatalano

This spring, we’re in full bloom as this sixth episode showcases budding new services and solutions for the education sector. So don’t miss Al Kingsley (CEO of NetSupport) and Mark Anderson (ICT Evangelist) on 30th March from 7pm!

Interested in being on the show? Al and Mark are now calling for contributors to the April episode. So, if you have a solution or service you would like school leaders and educators to hear about, please visit:  https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/showcase

Welcome to another episode of #TipTopTipsEdu! In this episode, we talk with our Technical Support Manager, Andy Earp, about all things classroom.cloud where he shares his top five tips based upon some of the most frequent questions he’s asked about it.

Already picking up awards, such as this one from the Tech & Learning’s Awards of Excellence - Best of Remote Learning Tools, classroom.cloud is a superb solution to support teaching and learning both in-person and remotely. 

Andy responded to the following five questions and shared some great resources too. Here are the five questions I asked Andy:

1.      How do you assign devices to groups?

https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/assigning-devices-to-device-groups-in-classroom-cloud/ 

2.       How do you invite users to your organisation?

https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-invite-or-import-users-into-the-classroom-cloud-portal/

3.      How do you change screen prompt behaviour on Chrome devices?

 https://classroom.cloud/pdfs/cc_chrome_share_student_screen_en-us.pdf

4.      What privacy options are available?

 https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/what-privacy-options-are-available-in-classroom-cloud/

 5.      What deployment methods are available for the clients?

https://kb.netsupportsoftware.com/knowledge-base/deployment-methods-available-for-classroom-cloud-students/