We all spend too much time in the day 'looking for things'! Keys, glasses, the cat and so on!
But what can Blippit do about making the search for things (moments from the curriculum win this case) easier? Well, a big challenge that we all face, with teachers being no exception, is reducing the amount of time spent looking for files of all kinds. The problem with files and directories is that they rely heavily upon teachers remembering lots of things and when you're tired with little time, sometimes, human nature means that things get forgotten. When was the last time you created a really meaningful file name but didn't notice you'd popped in the wrong year, mistyped the file name or simply saved it as 'document_2.docx' ?
We'd probably all be a bit lost now without our cloud storage platforms like Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive. The flexibility they afford us all is amazing in many ways, but, it doesn't really address the big unknown variable in the room which is 'people'! So long as we've got to enter text via a keyboard, manually select folders to save files and remember our past actions beyond looking at recent documents and searching, these systems don't help teachers to piece together what they have as a whole staff.
Blippit is very good at piecing things together. It allows teachers to be creative and not think about where a particular moment is saved as aboard because as long as at least some tags are applied from our ready made library. Our boards are always threaded together by the tags people use which means you never lose the thread of what's you've got as a subject leader either. Blippit doesn't stop at making it easy to find your stuff on the platform itself through instant filtering, teachers can exploit their wonderful OneDrives and Google Drives by adding links into their Boards that point directly to specific files so that no matter how a file is updated, it'll always be authoratitive.
Naturally, sometimes you can only remember roughly 'when' you saw a particularly interesting moment and for this occasion there's a 'date range' selector to help. Filtering by specific tag combinations really narrows things down too.
Teachers can do a search within the app or dashboard using plain English or Welsh too and Blippit will filter what's shown on the timeline in either the app or the dashboard.
Here are the 7 ways to quickly find specific curriculum moments for your monitoring. In each case, at the end of a search, you get the option to create a DOCX or PDF Report to take away and support your discussions
Cloud-Linked Files' tags.
