Course Introduction | 100% |

Module 1: Optimising your school network |15/01/18 |

Module 2: Wireless Networking and Bring Your Own Device  (22/01/18 )

Module 3: Moving to the cloud  (29/01/18)

Module 4: Security and safety  (05/02/18 )

Module 5: The effective ICT administrator (12/02/18 )

Module 6: New tools and services (19/02/18 ) 

1. In our school we use Office 365. It's a really useful service that provides a storage for saving any files there. You also can share access to files with anybody you want. It's really convenient to create presentations or save documents and then share access with students. Afterwards, we can discuss all material on the lesson and it gives big confidence in teaching students because you understand that they definitely know what you're talking about, so it's easier to transform a formal lesson into a lesson that includes using different media files and interesting resources. Also I use Google Drive. It has as many different options as Office 365 has. In general, I use it more for personal needs than for school needs but my students and I share different content with each other as well. In general, cloud storages definitely make sharing and saving content easier.
2.  The only problem we had in our school implementing cloude services was the poor Internet. But we changed our the Internet provider few weeks ago, so it got better. Also it's a little bit struggling to teach all students and teachers to use Cloud services properly.
3. In our modern society people cannot work without using computer and internet tecnologies, including Cloud services. This is why teaching kids how to use cloud is very important. These services help students and teachers to share important information without even meeting, for example, when the student cannot visit the school because of being sick, the teacher can easily share all of the important information, files, e-books etc. Using cloud services is not required in my school, but I use it anyway, because it is a great way to encourage student to work in groups on one projects together at the same time. It teaches them the responsebility of team work. Of course, all of the teachers that want to involve student to work in cloud should properly learn everything about it themselves first.

2. I reckon, it is very important to teach student to use their modern mobile phones not only as a toy, but also as a new way to learn new things and how to do it safely. there are many mobile apps pupils can use, so teacher's job is  to show them how to use them properly. I really recommend encouraging students to use smart phones for learning.