Trello Part 1 - An Introduction to Trello

Following on from a recent blog post, you may already be aware that this week we are going to be focusing on Trello - a simple web tool to help plan meetings and projects. It's a tool that we haven't promoted much of, despite using it a lot for our team meetings and general planning. However, it's a great tool if you want to individually and/or as a team or a class, want to map out ideas. Have a look at this first video of a three part series which provides a short introduction to Trello - how to create an account, create boards for planning, and basically what all the buttons do!

Click the image above to access the video 'An Introduction to Trello'

Coming up this week:

Part 2 Managing Projects in Trello - how to use all the features in Trello, which will help you and your team plan a project or hold a meeting more effectively.

Part 3 Using Trello in the Classroom - this video looks at alternative ideas for classroom activities using Trello. Some examples include creating fact cards, creating a quick interactive matching game, checking progress of the class for practical lessons and workshops and keeping organised throughout the school day.

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So External Hard Drives and Pen Drives are going to be banned...

We've taken the decision to ban external hard drives and pen-drives from all Trust computers and from all of our premises with effect from 1st January 2018. From that date they just won't work when you plug them into one of our computers. This article hopefully points the way for how to continue to work successfully without that trusted friend. This could inconvenience people - people that use them and me*

Every school still has one or two people that carry everything to and from work every day on that external disc they bought four or five years ago - I know of one colleague who has more than ten year's material on there, and another that lost everything when the drive failed and they had no backup. The ban comes from a security review where these devices were identified as one of our highest risks because:

From a data protection point of view, we know people know not to put any kind of personal or confidential data onto one, but there is always the risk of human error.The…

OneNote and Google Drive in Harmony

Many of our staff use OneNote well and happily, as well as being a great place to keep everything for a topic in one place presented visually and annotated (in many ways better than with a specialist interactive board app) it is useful to share what you have had on the big screen with your class with a single link.

Most also use Google Drive as the main place they keep all their files to collaborate, share resources and work on them from anywhere.

When word reached us that Brendan Brannigan from Bringhurst Primary School had combined the two and now works on his OneNote files at home and school using Google Drive we asked to make a guide for colleagues - this video (also available on dret.tv, login required) is the result.

I must admit, after watching it I had a "why on earth hadn't I thought of this?" moment - there is absolutely nothing wrong with OneDrive which is where OneNote prefers to live, but it is one more thing to worry about.

Now all I have to do is work out…

eLearning Certification and Awards website is live!

Our latest service offering - eLearning certifications and awards - has a brand new website. Drum roll please.......We are pleased to announce the website is now live!

Watch this short video for a brief run-down of what's on offer and how to find it:

And once you've given it a watch, head over to awards.dret.cloud to see what CPD is on offer for DRET staff. Some offerings are online courses, some are face to face workshops - something for everyone we hope.

Head teachers have been emailed further details, so if you are interested in eLearning CPD for you or your team - speak to them and get in touch with the eLearning team to take things further!

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