Enrichment & Writing
When children use app making to showcase learning in English, Maths, Science, History, Geography & STEM projects things really come to life.
Ideal for enrichment work and non-chronological report writing too, even with reluctant writers.
Blippit Academy Templates
Use a collection of ready-to-use app templates to help scaffold everyon'e learning.
Get ideas from other schools
Browse Planet Blippit for ideas and projects to re-mix & assign to your classes.
Want Plans?
Here are some Blippit & school-made plans for KS2 & 3.
Your School's Publishing
Personalised school space on Planet Blippit is all yours to show off student apps if you like.
Support Learners
Designed for school, you can keep an eye on where/what students are up to at any time, give feedback to submitted work & even snapshot work along the way.
Safety & Authenticity
You control if an app gets published or suspended.
Adding apps to phones
• iOS Devices
• Android Devices
What does it take?
Making an app with Blippit can be incredibly simple from beginning to end.
Children love to write apps (in plain English) & see them published to show what they know in English, Maths, Science, History, Geography & STEM projects. Look at these recent Year 2 reluctant writer project outcomes from November 2016.
Ideal for enrichment work and non-chronological reports, even with reluctant writers.
Blippit Academy Templates
Use a collection of ready-to-use app templates to help scaffold everyon'e learning.
Get ideas from other schools
Browse Planet Blippit for ideas and projects to re-mix & assign to your classes.
Plans
Here are some Blippit & school-made plans for KS2 & 3.
School Publishing
Personalised school space on Planet Blippit is all yours to show off student apps if you like.
Support Learners
Designed for school, you can keep an eye on where/what students are up to at any time, give feedback to submitted work & even snapshot work along the way.
Safety & Authenticity
You control if an app gets published or suspended.
Adding apps to phones
• iOS Devices
• Android Devices
Blippit Blocks is the latest addition to Blippit IO. Designed to bridge the gap between graphical Block programming and text-based coding in Python. Blippit Blocks uses the familiar 'Turtle' to help children to write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts use sequence and repetition in programs.
Create Maths challenges or use our projects and shared them out to the whole class as templates for debugging, extension and development.
Templates
In partnership with Griffith University (Australia) and backed by their incredible reputation in computing, Blocks also comes with ready to use project template challenges.
Blippit Blocks Projects can be exported to PureCode Python for more advanced text-based coding development if needed using the popular Python language.
If you can remember Logo and that programmable little Turtle that used to zip about the screen following your written instructions then you’ll have a really good starting point with PureCode Python.
A natural progression into text based coding, after Blocks, use the ready-to-go templates and tasks to solve challenges. Or create your own project templates in PureCode Python for your own student groups who can open and work on them from anywhere anytime.
Students can share and learn from each other's projects as well as download their code locally to use however they like.
Templates
In partnership with Griffith University (Australia) and backed by their incredible reputation in computing, PureCode also comes with ready to use project template challenges.
Blippit IO Spotlight is safe because it’s teacher-managed and designed to help school reach out and connect as it might if Skype wasn’t blocked or open to safeguarding concerns. The teacher sets up an instant or scheduled face-to-face video call for up to four connections. You can chat message to share web links easily and quickly as well as file sharing too. The teacher can see who is online at any given moment and invite other ’live’ users at their school into a mentoring or tutorial session on demand. The teacher can invite in external experts or guests who don't have an account in Blippit IO for that ‘real world’ input or audience factor anywhere in the world.
The best way to get your students started making apps!
Included in our LITE license, the popular App Maker is a great tool for students and teachers to create apps as part of their learning in any subject area.
You'll always have plenty of time-saving and fresh ideas to hand with the App Maker. Just browse, download & edit other people's published apps from Planet Blippit and Blippit Academy. Keep, re-use and re-assign your own App Templates year on year!
Your school has it's own private drag and drop app making environment that your students and teachers log in to. You can see what you're building as-you-go and teachers can see all student projects at any time. Students publish their apps and when approved by the teacher, in one click, they are shared on Planet Blippit.
Register for a FREE school account.
Free safe web video conferencing
Included in our LITE license, 'Spotlight' is our safe alternative to Skype and Google Hangouts with the advantage of being school filter-friendly & teacher controlled.
Connect your class with 'beyond-school' expertise wherever it may be. Text chat, share files and see each other for that essential human connection.
Collaborative learning is so immediate and easy. All you need is an exciting context where it really adds that extra bit of magic to your lesson.
Blippit Blocks
Included in our FULL license, built on Google's Blockly, Blippit Blocks is a block-based visual programming tool for Key Stage 2-3 Computing with Python under the hood doing all the hard work.
Blocks is a open-ended tool for problem solvers, bug finders and loop loving learners. It comes with computational & inquisitive thinking opportunities as standard!
Blippit Blocks' has many added advantages for teachers who want to create project starters for the class and get children project sharing to promote peer review.
Students export their Blocks project code with one click into PureCode Python where code is developed and run at a text-level.
PureCode Python
Included in our FULL license, Turtle graphics is a popular way for introducing programming to children. It was part of the original Logo programming language developed by Wally Feurzig and Seymour Papert in 1966.
PureCode Python is a next step along the coding journey coding from Blippit Blocks. It enables your lessons to focus on text based programming using Python. Start with a blank project or create projects yourself for your students to use.
Move a project from Blippit Blocks and use it as a basis for detailed development in PureCode Python. Accessible from anywhere with onscreen project playback, peer sharing plus teacher project templates included.
Student App Projects are published by the teacher to Planet Blippit with just one click.
Published student apps work on any smart phone & come with their own QR code.
Preview & download our free certificates (below) for students on completion of their project.
Blippit started out in the UK two years ago ahead of the new UK Curriculum for Computing. It was created to close the gap for the many children an teachers in the UK who were being excluded from creating exciting app projects and embracing what mobile could offer in the classroom and critically from anywhere a person happened to be. The UK founder of Blippit, John Bidder, is a former teacher, ICT Advisory Teacher, School's Adviser for ICT, Computing leader for teachers in training at the University of Manchester, School Governor, speaker and parent.
John's view has always been that if you can give everyone the opportunity to engage with app making and so on then from this great pool of talent will percolate up the children who have a real propensity for taking ICT apart and putting it back together again. Sometimes there are bits left over but that's not always a bad thing.
When inquisitive and problem solving minds get the chance to apply themselves and become like a dogs at a bone, sometimes with an expert in learning to hand scaffolding the way, the results are authentic and powerful for everyone concerned.
We start off with app making in any curriculum context. It's incredibly easy to introduce the concepts of app making using just drag and drop because at every stage the student gets to preview and modify their app as it grows. Blippit's App Maker contains many different types of building block 'widgets' as we call them. Younger students can simply drag an drop to both aggregate and create their own unique app. It's the Writer Widget where we introduce HTML markup language; the language of the web. This normally happens at primary level.Students can move along their journey, still in the App Maker, to using inline Javascript. We find this happens more commonly at secondary school and not at primary level. As students develop the ability to step back and disaggregate bigger challenges into smaller more manageable chunks we have Blippit Blocks to support them.
Built on Google's popular Blockly application, Blocks gives students a Turtle/Logo environment to explore key computing principles such as 'loops' and 'if' statements. Coding comes in the form of Python which is what each block is actually running behind the scenes. It's from Blocks that students can then move on and export their program into PureCode Python. Python is a hugely popular language and Blippit's PureCode Python gives students and teachers the space to explore and develop their code in text based form. Almost exclusively this is something that secondary schools are exploring but surprisingly we do see some interest from primary coding clubs too.
