This special episode presents the recording of our first TER Live event, the Teachmeet BYOD Policy Forum. Panelists discuss issues relating to the development and implementation of BYOD policies in Primary and High School settings.
"Oppia is a versatile tool that enables non-technical users to create interactive online educational activities (called 'explorations') that give immediate and personalized feedback to learners. These explorations are incrementally improvable by the community, and embeddable in any webpage. "
"Cryptoy is a fun, free, educational app about cryptography, designed by GCHQ for use by secondary school students and their teachers.
The app enables users to understand basic encryption techniques, learn about their history and then have a go at creating their own encoded messages. These can then be shared with friends via social media or more traditional means and the recipients can use the app to try to decipher the messages."
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openlyavailable to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
"The BBC has published computer programming study guides, quizzes and other support materials on its Bitesize site to coincide with the new computing curriculum's introduction in England."
"The SPA is for everyone. Whether you're young or old, a beginner or an experienced skywatcher, there's something for you. We aim to make stargazing fun! "
"The BlendSynch project explores solutions to connect twenty-first century students with twenty-first century higher education.
Uniting face-to-face and remote learners through rich-media real-time collaboration tools"
"Screencasts can be made with many tools and are often used to create a tutorial or showcase student content mastery. This page provides links to information, ideas, rubrics, and tools for the creation of screencasts by both teachers and students."
"Listen Current makes it easy to bring authentic voices and engaging non-fiction stories to the classroom. We curate the best of public radio to keep teaching connected to the real world and build student listening skills at the same time."