Dane Court Grammar School

How Apple Changed Our IT Vision

Steve Clifford !

Director of Technology in Learning !Coastal Academies Trust

Located in Broadstairs, Kent

Approx. 1200 pupils

Part of Coastal Academies Trust !King Ethelbert School!

Cliftonville Primary School!Sponsors of other schools

!Our School Network!

Mixed Windows/Apple Servers!Apple Desktops/Macbook Pro’s!

Apple Pro Apps!iPads/iPhones!

Windows Desktops/Laptops!Google Chromebooks

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

MY BACKGROUND

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

- Albert Einstein

COMPLEX LARGE NETWORK

!6

FLEXIBLE NETWORK

!7

Annotating PDF’s for literature work

Socrative Student Voting

Edmodo

Penultimate Notes taken with

a stylus

Evernote Taking photos of

work for evidence

Filming or recording oral assessments

SOME APPS ENGLISH USE

FLIPPED NETWORK

WEB APPS - CLOUD APPLICATIONS

Existing Apple Devices Any Other Device

Existing Windows Devices

DEVICES

IS THAT THE WHOLE STORY?

Pro Apps

Final Cut Pro X Logic Pro

iLife & iWork Apps

MEDIA

Final Cut Pro X HD Camera’s

“Apple iMacs was the obvious choice for our students, IB requires a high standard of work, by providing them with the tools that is also replicated at university and the work place provides our students the IT skills needed in the world of media”

MUSIC

Logic Pro Garageband

“In the world of music we want to engage students early on and introducing them to Garageband allows students to create something very easily and quickly,

students who want to take it further can simply ‘drop’ the garageband file into Logic Pro to take advantage of the advanced features”

ART

Adobe Creative Suite iStop MotionFinal Cut Pro X

“We wanted a robust device that could run applications native to art, we are pushing the boundaries by allowing students to create films of their work. We also use the iMacs for Stop Motion Animation and the simplicity of the software makes

the whole process extremely simple”

IT SUPPORT

OSX Mavericks Server OSX Mavericks Profile Manager Apple Volume Purchasing Programme

UNIFIED SOLUTION

THE FUTURE

QUESTIONS