From left to right: N4L's Luke Fawcett, Hamish Girvan from Chorus, N4L's Clayton Hubbard and Ed Strafford from the Ministry of Education. Community Connect Project focuses on digital inclusion We recently took part in a three-month accelerator programme...
Year 5 & 6 students from Rata Street School are using N4L's Managed Network at home thanks to a pilot lead by TAKA Trust, in partnership with Hutt City Council, the Ministry of Education, Rata Street School, N4L and Chorus. (Photo courtesy of Rata St...
Five years ago, we were asked to make sure every student in New Zealand could access safe, fast, reliable and uncapped internet, no matter where they lived or went to school in this country. In response, we built the Managed Network and now we have more than 811,000...
I use YouTube. A lot. I’m guessing you do as well. If not, who are you? And what are you doing online? Seriously, I’ve just completed an unofficial poll in my head which confirms that 90% of educators think YouTube is a handy tool in the classroom. Let’s assume this...
Earlier this month I wrote a blog post for Safer Internet Day (SID), it was a good article the best blog. Honestly, it was very good (#trumpetblowing). You can read it here. But in my haste to advocate the importance of making the internet safer, I failed to introduce...
Last week the Ministry of Education (MOE) sent a message to schools suggesting they take action to mitigate the risks of their servers being affected by cyber security threats. Cyber security is an ongoing challenge which requires continuous vigilance, education and...
Remote Access allows staff to remotely connect into school servers and work as if they are at school - from any location, as long as they have an internet connection. The service is available to all schools using the N4L Managed Network, although it’s schools that...