The realsmart team are proud to announce that we have appointed Simon Brown to head our training and support team.
Simon comes to us from Cramlington Learning Village, one of the best and most forward thinking schools in the UK. He’ll be joining realsmart next month and can’t wait to get stuck in.
At Cramlington, Simon was [...]

De Bono’s Thinking Hats allow us to examine a concept or problem through a variety of lenses or ‘Hats’.

Each ‘Hat’ in turn helps us think about the problems, benefits, ideas, emotions, suggestions and negative.
Using an rmap will allow you to share your thinking with your peers through the ‘Hats’. Get it from the community.

We now offer an automated integration link, that allows you to populate realsmart with your member data as often as you want from two of the most popular MIS systems, Serco Facility and Capita SIMS. This means that any changes to classes will automatically be picked up. You can set the data transfer for once [...]

The realsmart community regularly share their best work for all to use in their own schools. Take a look and see what you can find for your own teaching.

Go to ‘my content’ and click the ‘Community items’ tab. Choose an item from the list and click on it to view, share and duplicate.

We love finding out why people love realsmart, and how they are using it effectively in their schools.
Hirst Park Middle School 
Hirst Park Middle School took the initiative and found realsmart easy to roll out across the whole school with very little support. Recently they told us how they’re using realsmart to deliver everything from [...]

37signals  - the Chicago based makers of Basecamp and other great web-based software - recently wrote an article on smartassess for their Signal vs. Noise weblog.
The article, ‘Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: smartassess‘, covers how realsmart came about, why it came about, and looks at the fundamental philosophy at the heart of realsmart - the learner!
It [...]

The interest form that you completed at the show was entered into an iPod Touch prize draw. The draw was made at the end of conference….

By writing their OCR Nationals ICT units in realsmart using rafl, and then setting them to the community area, these schools were able to share the work they had created and duplicate units the other schools had built.

Whether it’s using rcast to keep Media Diploma production diary’s, or rcast to engage difficult to reach students, Hornsea School have seen how realsmart can have a massive impact on both students and teachers.

This service will automate the collection of users and groups to administrate your realsmart account. You won’t have to bother your network manager or administrator again once this is done…