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14th March 201814th March 2018

STEM App Maker Projects in the Emirates 2018

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 teacher & student handbooks.

Here are some images of the girls’ work from the classroom where students are seen presenting to peers the key features, content and design considerations. It’s nice to also see the creative use of Google Forms in a number of the apps (screenshot of one app below showing use of Google Forms).

Considering that the UAE only began using Blippit in mid-January 2018 we’re even more impressed with the rate of progress! Congratulations to everyone involved.

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9th October 201630th December 2016

NHS Blippit App Maker Project Partnership – Refer to Pharmacy

Refer-to-Pharmacy allows hospital pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to refer people directly to their community pharmacist for free NHS services such as the New Medicine Service or a Discharge Medication Review.

We’ve been working with Alistair Gray, Clinical Services Lead Pharmacist at East Lancashire Health Trust, on an idea to help spread of the word about Refer-to-Pharmacy. After an initial chat, Alistair quickly saw the potential of having an app, that he had complete control over, to aggregate sources of news, project updates, video, talks/events and so on for anyone wanting to know more about the project.

Bonus Brochure

With an hour’s training he very quickly made a really convincing job of the first ever ‘Refer to Pharmacy’ app and incredibly within 24 hours a QR Code and link were added to the latest print run design of the new R2P brochure. We feel confident that having an eye for detail, Alistair’s app will continue to evolve – in fact it’s at version 11 at time of writing!

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Every Success

Blippit is really happy and proud to support awareness raising of such a great project with it’s roots firmly in the NHS. The fact that Refer-To-Pharmacy is being picked up internationally now too is a really positive sign.

Refer-to-Pharmacy is a Patient Safety Award winning initiative; being the recipient of the Best Emerging Technology or IT award at the 2016 Patient Safety Congress.

Does your organisation have a project?

We’re in talks about a few other projects supporting the strategic goals of large organisations just now and we’ll hopefully be able to share more in time. If you are from a large organisation, such as the NHS, and have strategic goals that could be supported in a similar way please contact us via support@blippit.co.uk with your idea. If your organisation has established links to education already and would like to discuss an app making project or competition concept for schools we’d be happy to talk.

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26th March 201630th December 2016

How to Update your Blippit IO Chrome App Extension

Updating the Chrome Extension version Blippit IO sometimes needs a bit of encouragement.

Many teachers have said

I don’t have a Chromebook

But to use this popular version of Blippit you only need the Chrome Browser not a Chromebook.

At time of writing we’re currently on version 2.2.4. The quickest way to check if you’re on vers. 2.2.4 at a glance is that the tool bar looks like this.

If you’re not on 2.2.4 then follow the steps below.

First

Last

Not Installed a Chrome Extension Before?

You can get it here directly or watch the video first.

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18th February 201630th December 2016

Want the Chrome Version of Blippit IO?

In the USA, the Chromebook is the number one selling device into education from K-12. Globally, well take a look for yourself at how the Chrome Browser is doing. It’s pretty incredible.

browsers map stats

We love Chrome and Chromebooks but amazingly so few people in the UK and beyond have got to grips with how simple it is to speed up access to applications in the classroom.

So we decided, after a bit of a prompt from @TomSale (it was on the to do list Tom), to make a quick video to show you and your students exactly what to do and how to do it. Enjoy!

Music: http://www.bensound.com

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18th November 2015

Blippit Torus New App Launch – explore, scan & share!

Blippit Torus is our new QR Code Reader app built exclusively for Blippit IO App Maker users.

With schools moving over to the new Blippit IO we’ve now released Blippit Torus as an all new and totally free companion app that’ll make exploring apps, scanning QR codes & sharing apps a whole lot easier.

Log in as an Admin with your Blippit IO details to get your school view of all student apps which is ideal for seeing at-a-glance who has made what for evaluation/assessment purposes.
Logging in as a Student with your Blippit IO login gives you all your published apps in one place as well as fellow students.

Available for Android on Google Play & iPhone/iPad on the iOS App Store

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