{"_widget":{"name":"grid-stack","data":{"width":"1-3","align":"right","breakpoint":"l","alternate":true,"gutter":true,"gutter_vertical":"collapse","divider":true,"panel":false,"content_align":true,"animation_media":"fade","animation_content":"fade","media":true,"image_width":"auto","image_height":"auto","media_border":"none","media_overlay":"none","overlay_animation":"fade","media_animation":"scale-up","title":false,"content":true,"social_buttons":false,"title_size":"h2","text_align":"left","link":true,"link_style":"primary-large","link_text":"Read more","badge":true,"badge_style":"badge","badge_position":"panel","link_target":true,"class":""}},"items":[{"title":"Acorn Computer","media":"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/acorn_computer.png","width":320,"height":320,"options":{"media":{"width":287,"height":321,"type":"image"}},"content":"<p>The classroom today looks very different to the good old days when I was in school, particularly from a technology perspective. In the 1990s we had 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acorn_Computers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acorn computer<\/a> (paid for with Tesco \u2018Computers for School\u2019 vouchers) shared between 2 classrooms and you were lucky to get an hour of screen time a fortnight (in the <a href=\"\/team\/paul-weston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MD\u2019s<\/a> school days, the closest thing they had to a computer was an abacus).<\/p>\n<p>The average 2017 classroom is a multi-platform (Windows\/Mac\/Linux\/Chromebook\/iOS\/Android) environment often allowing BYOD and the use of cloud technology (mainly G-Suite and\/or O365) is becoming more prevalent. When faced with a plethora of different devices and disparate storage services (on-premise, hybrid or multi-cloud environments) this can be a real headache for both students\/teachers and the schools\u2019 IT administrator(s).<\/p>"},{"title":"Foldr Ipad Edu","media":"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/edu_ipad_foldr.jpeg","width":320,"height":320,"options":{"media":{"width":3441,"height":2329,"type":"image"}},"content":"<p>The founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/foldr.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnow IT<\/a> have suffered these headaches first-hand. As ex-IT administrators within a large secondary school, they had seen one too many support tickets stating, \u2018<em>I\u2019ve lost my work and don\u2019t have a backup<\/em>\u2019 or \u2018<em>the tablets storage is full<\/em>\u2019 and decided to do something about it.This led to the birth of Foldr.<\/p>\n<p>In its original form the software provided a gateway to schools\u2019 on-premise storage without the need for complex VPN connections, giving users the experience of the cloud while the school still maintained control and ownership of sensitive student data.<\/p>\n<p>In its current form, Foldr is now the gateway to all your storage mediums, integrating your on-premise storage with O365, G-Suite, Box &amp; Dropbox. With native apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, as well as a web app it offers a consistent way to access files &amp; folders in a multi-platform environment.<\/p>"}],"random":0,"parse_shortcodes":1,"_fields":[]}