 Northern Grid New Services
Our award winning education broadband services, elearning and technical services, save the region's schools over £7m each year. Over 500 schools in eight of the region's local authorities have benefited from Northern Grid's expertise and services for over ten years. Underpinned by our specialist education services, our connectivity will help ensure you gain maximum benefits from your investments.
Further information about Northern Grid's services
Details of average regional costs and national comparisons are available on the website. Further information on Regional and National costs
Northern Grid ICT Education Awards 2011
Many schools in the Northern Grid region are supporting teaching and learning with exciting and innovative uses of ICT. Are you one of them? If you are you can enter the Northern Grid ICT in Education Awards 2011, celebrate your success and you could win a prize for your school
More information on the Norther Grid awards 2011
New E-Safeguarding Tool Launched
Rapidly developing information and communication technologies (ICT) are exciting and motivating learning tools through which learning and teaching can be greatly enhanced. However, the use of ICT and particularly online technologies do present schools with some serious challenges and risks. The NEN E-Safeguarding Tool is an online application that can help senior managers to ensure that ICT is used safely and responsibly and that risks related to ICT use are properly managed.
Additional information about the ESafeguarding Tool
Learning Platform Network
The Learning Platform Network is an ambitious initiative to connect and support schools in their use of learning platforms.
Schools improve when they effectively use their learning platform to support leadership, innovative and appropriate teaching and learning, assessment, data management and communication with all members of the learning community.
Further information about the Learning Platform Network
Video Conferencing JVCS Service Update
All schools in the Northern Grid region have Broadband connections. Many schools, CLCs and LAs are intending to move into using videoconferencing over broadband as a curriculum and administrative tool. Video conferencing using broadband IP connections incurs no call charges when connecting to another IP endpoint.
For more information on Northern Grid VC services
More information for VC and the curriculum
JVCS Update
Janet Collaborate, Content Providers, VC sessions, Case Studies and Finding a partner school
More JVCS information
FILMCLUB NE
FILMCLUB helps set up simple and inspiring after-school film clubs - sign up and offer your students:
- Improved literacy
- Vocational aspiration
- Independent and imaginative thinking
- Self-confidence and social skills
Further information about FILMCLUB NE
Technical Service Review
All secondary schools within Northern Grid will have an onsite visit arranged this term with the school Network Manager. Items to discuss will include firewall rules audit, network performance and security, web filtering configuration and any support issues. This meeting will be an opportunity for the school to identify existing and future service requirements.
More information about the Technical Services Review
ESecurity Practitioner's Toolkit
The security toolkit provides clear and relevant practical advice to schools to ensure the safety of network users and protection for the network itself. The toolkit addresses those topics that are key to any sound security and risk management strategy.
Target Audience
- Network Manager & IT Technicians responsible for deploying school network solutions
- IT Managers and Coordinators, who manage, administrate and maintain IT solutions
- School SMT responsible for the schools IT strategy, policies and procedures.
Further Information on the ESecurity Practitioners Toolkit
Growing Greener Futures Conference
This conference, hosted by Holy Trinity Rosehill Primary School and funded by CCE, will be a major gathering event for educators interested in developing creative learning approaches through the great outdoors.
Further Information about the Growing Greener Future Conference
CachePilot Configuration Document
Northern Grid has produced this document to assist you in checking that your CachePilot is configured correctly. It contains a list of sites with instructions on how to test your configuration settings correctly and any actions that should be taken from performing these tests; in addition to these test instructions it also contains a list of FAQs to help answer any questions you may have about the CachePilot system.
More Information about CachePilot Configuration
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