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Exhibiting with the Department for International Trade this month throughout BETT (STAND: A20) in London meeting people & countries of such diversity it takes our breath away! 🇬🇧 Our thanks to @tradegovuk #blippit pic.twitter.com/BWjVnWdjzA
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This year’s must-have merch from Blippit at the BETT Tech Show includes a very handy ♻️ recyclable bag for your stuff & a 🌱 biodegradable pen! 😲 https://t.co/vOEgUSjqlc #environmental Now there’s two good reasons to say hello! pic.twitter.com/YXJG5VGmJ1
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This December has been a big one at Flakefleet Primary School where, hot on the heals of winning the UK Happiest School Award, the seed of a dream was sewn in an assembly. That seed has now become a full-on raging express train of a mission to do the seemingly impossible: To be No. 1 this Christmas 2018 with their single ‘Light Up’ with all proceeds going to Alzheimer’s UK.
As part of our School in the Fast Lane Podcast, we wanted to share the power of what can happen when a community gets heart and soul engaged in a common goal using social media, particularly Facebook, as a platform.
John Bidder (Blippit Social founder whose services support Flakefleet) interviewed Dave McPartlin (Headteacher) in early December 2018 about the part played by social media in this school community-wide mission that also raises money for Alzheimer’s.
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Along the way Flakefleet has managed to gain local and national celebrity endorsements from far a wide generating press, tweets, videos and photos. Who couldn’t support a cause like Azheimer’s?
Pre-order ‘Light Up’ for 59p today!
Official Release Date 14th Dec 2018
Google Play: https://bit.ly/2RhcSkU
iTunes: https://apple.co/2AChJ99
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PyAIHf
This is incredible, and so heart-warming – @Flaketweet Primary School have recorded a charity single with all proceeds going to @alzheimerssoc, and they’re trying to get to Christmas No. 1!
— fearne cotton (@Fearnecotton) December 5, 2018
Hear the song here: https://t.co/SPtWslRHxI
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE COPYRIGHT FLAKEFLEET PRIMARY SCHOOL 2018 AND ARE USED WITH PERMISSION.
Ofcom’s 2018 study of where teenagers go to get their news is very insightful and just as interesting is where the adults (parents) go.
What are the implications? Here are our initial thoughts.
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In this new series we’ve called ‘School in the fast lane’, Blippit Social’s John Bidder talks about the reality for schools of being in the fast lane & having the mindset/tools to engage with parents through social media.
'You’ve not met our parents!’
Listen to someone who has worked with hundreds of schools on the issue of parents colouring SLT vision for using social media as a tool for engagement https://t.co/tqeQy7ucwe pic.twitter.com/IN1vtaPTH4
— Blippit Social (@schoolfacebook) September 18, 2018
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Here’s Chapter 1
The new United Arab Emirates Design & Technology Curriculum is well under way with STEM themed app making projects and fabulous learning happening in schools such as this leading girls’ school.
The attention to detail in these apps is very noticeable, as is the thought that has gone into the preparation for the learning, supported and emphasised in the new MoE created teacher & student handbooks.
Here are some images of the girls’ activity and work from the classroom where students are seen presenting to peers the key features, content and design considerations. It’s good to also see the creative use of Google Forms in a number of the apps – you can see this in a screenshot of one of the apps lower down this article.
Considering that the UAE only began using Blippit in mid-January 2018 we’re impressed with the rate of progress. Congratulations to everyone involved.
One of the major criticisms of social media is that it’s disconnecting us, as individuals, from society and from real physical interactions.
But if a key element of ‘tribe’ is communication and connectivity then the digital world arguably holds unlimited bounds for tribes.
If the internet has heralded the death of distance, what do these new kind of tribes look like? And do we relate to each other in different ways now that so much of our lives are lived online?
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In this episode of The Digital Human (BBC Radio 4.), Aleks Krotoski asks if rather than separating us, the digital world is helping us revive old tribal connections. It’s a fascinating way to look at schools and their parental communities for many reasons so do have a listen.
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Personalised Blippit
The MoE has an Office 365 integrated sign in for their schools to use with Blippit to make life easier. Uniquely, theirs is a bespoke Blippit App Maker cloud that’s only accessible to schools in the UAE to bring performance enhancements and meet their data requirements.
Resources
A new publication has been created thanks to teachers in the UAE supported by colleagues from the Ministry of Education. Teachers are now using this publication thanks to their in-country training in 2018.
As the schools in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Northern Emirates get to grips with the App Maker and begin their learning, we looking forward to seeing how they progress with their new digital skills, explorations of app making, coding and creativity.
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