This week NMS was awarded the quality seal 'Excellent Digital School' for the second time in a row! NMS was one of the first schools to receive this seal in 2018, which has a validity of four years. The new quality seal is valid until 2026. The award serves the long-term quality development and assurance of digitally supported education at Berlin comprehensive schools. We especially appreciate the Senate’s trust and support for our safe and sustainable use of our learning platform.
The school’s infrastructure has steadily improved, thanks to the joint effort of parents, teachers and students who work together in the Media Development Group. Because of the improved infrastructure in both schools as well as the use of our learning management system, the use of mobile devices and learning apps has become much more authentic and intuitive. The biggest transformation in the past two years has been the improved and professional use of our learning platform Workspace since the pandemic. NMS teachers have been using the Workspace core apps for more than a decade, but the biggest impact was our introduction of the student accounts since day 1 of the pandemic-related school closures. Since then NMS students have used their Workspace accounts for learning, structuring their workload, communication and cooperation. We have kept the students’ data safe by purchasing the Education Enterprise licence, which ensures that our data stays in Europe, creating pseudonymised accounts, collecting parental consent and strictly sticking to the core apps.
The school’s IT & Media department walks a fine line between data protection, budget limitations and user friendliness. A big shout out to the student council for keeping us on our toes and finally making that wifi available for all Secondary school students as soon as possible, to the IT team (Nic, Benni, Sebastian, Thomas and Gerald) for the ongoing Workspace administration, micro-trainings and collegial support, to Joseph and Philip for keeping the IT up and running and up-to-date, to our wonderful librarians for their fantastic support in turning the libraries into multimedia centres, to Ines Britze for her unwavering effort in the ordering of equipment and licences, the NMS management for supporting all digital efforts, to the Friends for their indispensable support in pushing IT at NMS, to Oliver BUZZ Blackbourne for keeping us all informed, to Florentine Baumann, Hanna Lentz and all you talented students for your role in various presentations as part of our Hybrid School trial and to all staff members who are turning digitalisation into digitality.
Of course we are never done; this field is developing rapidly, our needs are changing on a daily basis. Would you like to join the group and share your input? We always require training, whether you are a programmer or designer! We need help for the website, input and ideas. Please contact head of IT and Media
More info on the Exzellente Digitale Schule award can be found here.
