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What is Tech Tips?
A digital subscription service for schools and organisations which helps parents to support their children's online life, so they can thrive in a digital world. Subscribers receive monthly resources to share with parents, and live video sessions for parents.
What is the tagline for Tech Tips?
Expert online safety resources and events for your parent community.
Why should I subscribe?
Tech Tips allows subscribers to engage their parent community with expert online safety resources and live sessions, responding to the tech issues affecting families. Our expert team creates topical, easy-to-follow, and ready-made content saving you time and helping you meet requirements for online safety, RSE and media literacy. Our resources aim to keep parents up-to-date, informed and confident about digital family life, aware of both the risks and opportunities available to their children.
What do subscribers get?
You will receive monthly mailings throughout the school year highlighting the latest resources and events available to you.
Parent Guides – single page PDFs with clear, expert advice on gaming, apps, social media, tech trends and parenting in the digital age.
Tech Tips: Live – live video sessions exploring what parents need to know about the biggest topics impacting digital family life.
Concept Cards – Bitesize resources on everything tech related, optimised for mobile.
Badge - A badge to display on your website
Support - a support email address where you can request a topic you would like to see covered.
As part of the PZ SEND project – funded by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology – accessible and adaptable rparent guides for children and families with SEND have been developed.
Ok, so if I subscribe, where can I find my Tech Tips resources?
In addition to the weekly mailings delivered to your inbox, subscribers have access to the Tech Tips Hub on our website, home to a library of Parent Guides, Concept Cards and past Tech Tips: Live sessions. Here, they can also find the latest Monthly Mailing and download their Badges.
How many people in my organisation can access Tech Tips?
Upon purchase, a single account manager receives monthly mailings and has access to all resources and past live sessions via log-in to the Tech Tips hub on our website.
Who can I share resources with?
The resources are available for the account manager to download and share with any and all parents you support, as well as colleagues within your organisation. They can be distributed however you see fit via emails, newsletters, social media feeds, and can be hosted on your school website.
Resources and events may not be shared with external organisations, see more info on our terms and conditions here.
Are resources suitable for all ages?
The resources and events are suitable for parents of primary or secondary school aged children.