Newent Community School

Newent Community School

Kevin Stacey: Some of the original problems we saw with the existing wireless network was an issue of sort of contention with the number of devices we could connect at any single time. Announcer: http://newent.gloss.co.uk/demo. What we're looking for is, is it going to run? And we're done. Thank you very much for your help, it's been invaluable.

Mark Howell: The problem for many school IT departments who are now inviting students to bring in their own devices is they have little control over the devices students are bringing in. This requires a wireless network to be able to support multiple bands, 2.4 gig 11n as well as 5 gig 11n across the whole school site. It's something that Meru achieves and other solutions don't.

Gary Hardy: With continual testing, with live tests and demos that we've done at schools, they have all fed back incredibly positive results. That has led us to a situation now where we lead with Meru. Whoever we're talking to, if they want wireless, we talk to them about Meru first.

Jen Wells: We've recently invested in Meru Wireless technology. It means that they can pick up something in an hour that would normally take them three hours, four hours to do. It's meant that I can not demonstrate, but pose better questions. If they have their little handheld device, they can logon to Nelly, they can pick up something from there and they can watch it instead of having to wait for me to get there. It just means they're not sitting around thinking I don't know what to do about this, they do know what to do about it.

Hamish Young: We've seen students progress much more rapidly than they have been in the past. They're able to now not just logon anywhere on a laptop but also use mobile devices and actually leave comments and feedback.

Ashley Mortimer: It's been an absolute revelation because it now means we can get all our devices logged on when we need to, and all the students can access the learning materials that we need them to. We're now in the 21st century. We're not in slates and chalk anymore, we need to embrace the technologies that are there.

Mark Ellis: If I can get everybody in front of a laptop, there are things we can do collaboratively that there is no way we can do if we're sitting around a desk.

George: The cameras and the laptops, they're helping us to improve our technique a lot because we can really see what we're doing instead of sir telling us what we've done. Ian Britten: I think the kids are just used to technology. They use it every day, every single day. And with the big screen as well. Every lesson, we can visually show the children what we're after. It is very hard to quantify it, but just from the time that I've been here I've seen a massive difference.

Billie: You can just logon and just be at your work like that. You don't have to find your room, find a computer.

Philippa: the Wi-Fi's helping me because I can work from the laptop and my phone in the common room. I can work harder, as I've got access to resources.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• meru networks
• high density