2. The leading safe
social learning
platform
A fun way to
engage children &
teachers with
video, blogging &
digital badges
Makewaves homepagescreenshot Oct 2012
9. Project partners
Schools 200 Schools 87 Media stories3,017
Page views 17,500 Page views 20,129 Page views 23,609
Unique visits 10,000 Unique visits 11,408 Unique visits 13,435
Some Other Partners
10. Example Project:
Safe – the certificate in
safe social networking
Practical activities to
teach children the skills
they need to stay safe
whilst using social
media
Over 1,500 primary
schools reached
Innovative delivery
using multi-award
winning Makewaves
platform
16. DigitalMe Badge Programme
Pushed out to Open Badge
Infrastructure and have
value to a broad audience
Qualitative assessment of
skills by peers/leaders
3 sets Journalist, Coach
&Producer
3 levels in each set:
Bronze, Silver & Gold
Don’t mind admitting I’m excited to be here with you todayTim DM – committed to improving children’s life chances by providing educational activities which prepare them for world of work and encourage them to be life-long learners Developed out of product called MW…
Says social learning platform – social school – ‘school in cloud’everything happens in school expect to see on Makewaves - teacher materials – materials from employers – rather than responding with text books respond using the tools we use today web and mobile.. Very important that alongside teacher materials there are materials from employers – because takes teachers, parents AND employers to prepare children for world going to enter after school
As well as web mobile Mobile becoming increasingly important today – some schools going completely mobile.
As well as web mobile Mobile becoming increasingly important today – some schools going completely mobile.
As well as web mobile Mobile becoming increasingly important today – some schools going completely mobile.
Idea that’s really taking hold in schools – secret to overnight success is 10 yrs of hard work!
Open BadgesOpen Badges are digital images (pngs) with meta data hard baked into them, important stuff like: Who the badge belongs toWhat they’ve done to earn the badgeWho has endorsed the badge
They can be displayed anywhere are across the web
And a group of people you’ll recognise have got together to create badges which start to recognise all the achievements of young people using Open Badges
Hand over to these guys, know more than me, they have been testing, give them a big welcome….
Journalist = mastery of skills e.g. Creating media, presenting, communication, interviewing, promoting to an audienceProducer = team working, world of work skills, leadership, problem solving etcCoach = analytical skills, communication skills,
