Digital Roadtrip

Being busy presenting, I didn’t get much of a chance to look around BETT 2012.  For me, the two best things were not actually at BETT.  The first thing was this….

This is about to be launched and I like it a lot! 

This page is a tease. It sign posts a new and FREE way to create interactive question sets with audio and video content. You create on the big screen with an easy to use interface and publish to the devices. I was shown a demo and it is so fast and easy. Every teacher will be able to create great simple but powerful IOS content with this tool. This is without having to be a developer.

It could be massive especially in the primary sector.

The Best 1:1 iOS find at BETT part 2 was… also part visible and invisible. This being the BETT winners of ICT Company of the Year (Less than £1 Million) - Radiowaves.

These guys are true education innovators. They are quick and nimble and make the big guys look a little clueless. The invisible bit is that they have a free stealth iOS app that is about to be launched.  It is in effect an iOS only social publishing tool for learning. Content from the camera roll can be zapped straight into the learners social learning space. Many schools even 1:1 iOS schools don’t actually realise that you can’t post content into a web 2.0 space from Safari.

I blog on Tumblr,  use Posterous spaces for workshops/iPad content distribution (this being one example of “post2publish” carnage)  - but this is different.

The advantage of the new Radiowaves app is the sharing of social iOS content, enabling teachers to explore how socially shared content shapes literacy and of course learning in general. 

I think 1:1 iOS schools are going to love it.

I can’t wait for both of these releases!