Ray Barker, Director, BESA

Colin Penfold, Director, Partnerships and Commissioning, Becta

What makes a good product?

BETT 08Saturday, 12 January 2008

Awarding creative and innovative products for teachers and learners

The BETT awards aim to:• Represent the needs of the education system.

• Reward vibrant products that support innovation and personalising learning.

• Stimulate the design, production and delivery of quality products, fit for purpose within the marketplace.

• Provide options for people who want to buy innovative products.

• Reward inclusive and accessible designs.

Judging criteria include:

Christine deGraft-Hanson

Deputy Principal, Parkwood Hall School,

ICT in Practice Awards winner 2001 & BETT Awards judge 2008

Products should be…• Innovative

• creative

• inclusive

• educational

• motivational

• content-rich

• extremely user-friendly (intuitive).

What makes something exceptional?

• One of a kind?

• Cutting-edge or near cutting-edge technology?

• Cross-curricular (if relevant or possible)?

• Accessible to many?

• Looks good?

The challenge today…

Pro or con?

• Learners who’ve ‘seen it all’

• Learners who can probably use technology better than the

teacher

• Death by software/content

• Funding.

So…

What criteria would YOU look for?

Sarah Neild

Primary School AST, Birchley St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, St Helens,

ICT in Practice Awards runner-up 2004 & BETT Awards judge 2006-8

A video clip is available – to watch this, please download the zip file from the web pagehttp://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35113

A video clip is available – to watch this, please download the zip file from the web pagehttp://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35113

A video clip is available – to watch this, please download the zip file from the web pagehttp://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35113

Ease of access to the resources

Straightforward

Differentiation

Prompts

Interaction

A video clip is available – to watch this, please download the zip file from the web pagehttp://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35113