Loopd.life in schools - Free Social Media Network Solution

The Tablet Academy is working with Loopd.life to provide schools with a safe and school specific, free social network solution.

Loopd.life is a private social network designed specifically for schools to raise awareness of educational opportunities and community achievements. It inspires a stronger sense of community belonging and engages students in more opportunities, events and academic pursuits.

"Student engagement and educational productivity are the foundations of our philosophy and software architecture." said Jonny Driscoll, CEO Loopd.life.

Initial research from Dr. Mark Childs from the Oxford Brooks University suggests that "Loopd.life may be the ed-tech that students have been waiting for... the response to date indicates that it has the potential to meet both student and institutional demands." 

Loopd.life has been in pilot operation for 18 months and is now available for FREE to every school in the UK through the Tablet Academy. Each participating school will be provided with a native mobile and web application that is completely private to all staff, students and parents; and consists of a media-rich newsfeed for posts and events, with the ability to distribute text, documents, image and video content. Loopd.life can be set-up manually or automatically via Office 365 logins. 

For more information please email:

info@tablet-academy.com or call 01952 567450

Tablet Academy Computing Festival - 6th July 2016

Tablet Academy Computing Festival - 6th July 2016

          The 6th of July 2016 saw Telford Park School host a Tablet Academy Computing Festival, in association with Gaia Technologies and Acer, with seven schools taking part. Our Computing Festivals aim to involve students in IT based activities through the use of modern technology. At this event we had four different activities including; a MinecraftEdu activity where students had to build a functioning lighthouse, a robotic arm where students had to programme the robot to deposit 'nuclear waste' in a 'disposal bin', LEGO which involved students building and programming a working fan, and finally an interactive session with the popular 'DASH' robots where students used tablets and flowchart based apps to control the robots actions. 

       This Festival was a great success, and students seemed to enjoy the wide range of activities available to them. These activities helped students from different schools interact with each other in order to complete the tasks involved as well as helping students develop their coding, programming, and problem solving skills contributing towards the completion of their IT curriculum. 

     

        Our Learning Festivals are widely well received and our feedback is very good. Given the chance St. Georges Primary School said it "Would be lovely to host an event and have resources available in school.". Luckily, Tablet Academy's Teacher Academy, gives you the chance to host one of our Learning Festivals given you sign up. This is one of many benefits the Teacher Academy Programme offers and is available for your sign up now. If you would like to find out more information on the Teacher Academy and our Learning Festivals you can visit our website at:

http://www.tablet-academy.com/what-we-do.html

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