Three great tips for teacher training

Three great tips for teacher training

Are you making the most of your iPads? Do your staff need inspiring with new, creative ideas for using iPads in class? Here’s our three top tips for improving everyone’s skills (two of them FREE!), ensuring your iPads are used to their maximum potential:...
Is your ICT in need of a shake up?

Is your ICT in need of a shake up?

Spring Term 2018 Is your ICT in need of a shake up? Here’s a handy list to get you started this term! Now that iOS 11 is out, there’s never been a better time to upgrade your iPads and recycle your old ones. Collect and count up existing iPad 2’s in school. Ask Toucan...
Apple Classroom

Apple Classroom

As we upgrade, wipe and reset iPads this term, most of us will be using iOS 10.3. This means that Apple Classroom will be available. It’s a free and very useful utility for the classroom teacher, unlike Google Classroom, which is predominantly focused on a paperless...
A Year with iPad Pro

A Year with iPad Pro

I watched with much interest the product launch of the 12.9″ iPad Pro back in Autumn 2015. Here was a fast iPad with a huge display, an intriguing super-accurate stylus and a simple to attach external keyboard. I began to wonder: perhaps an iPad Pro could serve...
Access all areas!

Access all areas!

Accessibility For years, schools have had to buy additional accessibility software and hardware tools as an add-on to their choice of technology. Apple’s approach is, of course, very different. If you open General Settings on an iOS device, you see at the centre of...