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 responsible for their online learning environment and championed the use of realsmart across the school since it was launched at Cramlington 5 years ago. His role within our team is to develop our proactive customer implementation, support and training, and to build an active online community of users.
Schools are able to book Simon for training and implementation sessions now by contacting him on simon@smartassess.com
Simon says ‘the use of realsmart in Cramlington has been pivotal in the development of our pedagogy and I can’t wait to share my experience of its uses with as many schools as possible’.
We can’t wait either Si!

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.

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! This service is normally charged out at £300, but for our existing customers we are offering this service for free. All you need to do is contact us before the end of July 2010 to book a time slot.
Click here to contact the realsmart support team now

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.

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 lesson plans to field trip blogs.
‘It literally took me about 15 minutes to plan a unit of work – using the resources that we already have in school – and uploading them into realsmart. It was just so easy to use, so intuitive.’

Charlene Larter Literacy Teacher

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Hornsea School and Language College

Hornsea School and Language College have embedded realsmart into the schools way of life, whether it’s using rcast to keep Media Diploma production diary’s, or rcast to engage difficult to reach students. With little training, they have seen how realsmart can have a massive impact on both students and teachers.

‘We’re using realsmart quite a lot in our particuliar area because the students are responding to it really well, and it’s making life quite a bit easier in terms of collecting assessment evidence and things like that.’

John Hart e-learning coordinator (Music & Diploma)

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Aston Manor, Bartley Green and Wheelers Lane

These three Birmingham schools have used realsmart to reduce their workload. By writing their OCR Nationals ICT units in realsmart using rafl, and then setting them to the community area, they were able to share the work they had created and duplicate units the other schools had built.
‘realsmart’s just been a great tool to share ideas, share resources and just to get our message across – to save us re-inventing the wheel.’

James Gough Head of ICT – Aston Manor School & Technology College

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