makewaves & digital me partner introduction

The Social Media Platform for Schools

“At the forefront of education social networks” The Guardian

BETT 2012 ICT Company of the year

The leading safe social learning platform

A fun way to engage children & teachers with video, blogging & digital badges

Makewaves homepage screenshot Oct 2012

Publish video, audio, photos and blogs from anywhere

Broadcast stories to users

Mobile App

Vital stats

3,500 Schools

60,000 Students

9,000 Teachers

Monthly Usage*• 694,464 Views• 108,000 Visitors• 8:20 On Site

* Jan 2013

“73% were better at decision

making and responsibility”

—Bradford University Research“Participants’ confidence greatly

improved in other aspects of their life”

—EDCOMS Evaluation 2008

“Participants clearly benefit from the fact that

they are thrust into an arena that whilst

exciting, takes them out of their comfort

zones”—Manchester Metropolitan University report

“Pupils take much pride and also responsibility in undertaking this task.” —OFSTED

Impact on Young People

Project partners

Schools 200Page views 17,500Unique visits 10,000

Schools 87Page views 20,129Unique visits 11,408

Media stories 3,017Page views 23,609Unique visits 13,435

Some Other Partners

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

Schools 200Page views 17,500Unique visits 10,000

Example partner page

What are Open Badges?

Organisations involved

Digital media + learning competition winners

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

DigitalMe Badge Programme

Cliff Manningcliff.manning@makewav.es

@cliffmanning www.makewav.es

Tim RichesTim.riches@digitalme.co.uk

@digitalmewww.digitalme.co.uk