Strategic Conference 2007 Delegate Lounge

Google Apps and Moodle at Cottenham Village College Peter Marshall, Deputy Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Could a free Google service handle all a school’s communications and office software needs? Pete Marshall, Deputy Head at Cottenham Village College, Cambridgeshire things so and ‘braves the lions den’ of Naace Sponsoring Partners to explain why. But it’s not the potential saving of possibly ?20,000 that’s the most impressive gain, but having an easy-to-use, mission-critical service that delivers the expectations students and teachers have of modern technology. The secondary school installed Google Apps Education Edition (email and a range of other powerful online software tools) over two days and the school community signed on within a month.

The e-strategy in schools: a demand-led approach Niel McLean, Executive Director, Institutional Workforce and Development, Becta Neil McLean expands on the keynote he did at this year’s Strategic Conference by looking at the new ‘demand-led’ approach to producing transformational change in schools through the use of ICT.