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Makewaves is a safe social learning platform for schools – the perfect place for schools to share creativity.
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Badges arrived on Makewaves about 2 years ago, and have added a powerful layer of learning technology to our platform, giving students powerful incentives, and giving teachers the opportunity to engage young people in any activity and track their progress through it.
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All schools get their own space on Makewaves, to share what they make.
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Every teacher and student have their own social profile, with badges displayed upon it.
Students discover badges...
Earn badges created byschools and organisations
Build a portfolio of work
Connect with other students in a safe environment
Share their achievementsacross the web
Make friendsComment on work
Student profile
Badge evidence
Student badges
Capture media from anywhereUpload media stories
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There are many ways students can discover badges on Makewaves, and start to submit their work towards accreditations for all kinds of activities. They might be at school or at home, on a computer or on a handheld device.
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The Makewaves badge library is a place to search for and discover badges of all kinds, made by teachers, educators, and carefully selected project partners. Many young people using Makewaves head to the badge library as their first port of call, to find out what they can earn from a constantly-updated bank of learning activities.
Teachers award badges
Using Badges to…
Engage students with yourbadge mission
Moderate and approve studentswork and award badges on yourbehalf
Safely connect Parents andfamilies to your badge mission
Manage content via the App
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Teachers on Makewaves can create their own badges to share with students – a quick and easy process that takes just minutes, but can be highly engaging.
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Badges can be extremely simple, and completed in one short lesson. Or they can incorporate a whole term’s worth of work as students progress through the various tasks set by the teacher or badge creator.
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Each school’s badges are displayed on their own page.
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The Digital Leaders network on Makewaves is a fast-growing hub where schools can share their experiences of implementing Digital Leaders, and gain access to resources and best practice guides. Teachers can find out everything they need to know here, and connect with a like-minded group of educators who are striving for the same goal in their schools. Makewaves is the perfect tool for empowering your digital leaders. With their own logins and the tools to create blogs, articles, videos, image galleries, audio clips, and document downloads, they can quickly become web publishers and inspire others to do the same. The Digital Leader badges on Makewaves will mark their progress as they learn new skills and become accomplished ambassadors for new technology in your school.
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The creation of a team of Digital Leaders in your school is an ideal way to begin the new school year and the new Computing Curriculum. On Makewaves, you will find a range of other resources that have been mapped to the new curriculum, including a brand new digital badge ecosystem that has been built using the Computing At School Progression Pathways teaching materials.
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E-Safety is a key part of the new curriculum, and Makewaves is the perfect tool to teach e-safety. The platform is ideally suited to delivering the Safe programme of e-safety from DigitalMe, and there are badges available for students, teachers and parents to earn.
What Teachers say…
The Badge System is great! I can now set students multiple tasks and monitor the work at a glanceDan Donaldson, Shireland Collegiate Academy
Badges are a great way of focusing pupils on a task or of lending credibility. Furthermore it is a great way to assess and evidence pupils' progress.Jason Bromfield, Music Teacher
Students love to discover and earn badges and help each other
One of the biggest impacts we have seen is the eagerness of children to get involved and try something new.Matt Rogers, Teacher
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The feedback we receive from teachers on the combined impact of Digital Leaders, Makewaves and digital badges is unanimously positive. We have witnessed primaries and secondary schools making huge strides in student engagement, peer-to-peer learning, flipped classrooms and increased attainment, by taking advantage of tools that are easy to use. Getting started with your own Digital Leaders and giving them access to Makewaves is fast, simple and safe.
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