LapSafe® at BETT: A review of day three at the BETT Show

Another day of the BETT Show has drawn to a close, and, on traditionally the busiest day of the exhibition, it’s been an action packed day from start to finish for LapSafe® at BETT.

When doors opened on the third day at BETT, the LapSafe® team were ready and waiting to help visitors discuss their mobile ICT management solutions, despite a late night at Collabor8 4 Change (C84C) on Thursday. LapSafe® is proud to be an official sponsor for C84C at BETT 2012 and was on hand to deliver an interactive table session about ICT security in schools at the BETT Fringe event.

Last night was the second time that the BETT Show has been home to Collabor8 4 Change, a free-to-attend ‘unconference’ for educators to share ICT tools, resources and practices that engage and inspire. If you want to find out more, you may want to read our review of November’s C84C held in Havering.

After a round of coffees, the third day of BETT was kicked off by a talk on the LapSafe® BETT stand by Dr Nick R Dennis of Felsted School. Headteacher at the leading independent school, Dr Dennis (@drdennis) gave a talk at 11am about how his school uses iPads with pupils to boost learning, social and pastoral practices.

Felsted School, an independent boarding and day school for children aged four to 18 years of age, is an Apple Regional Training Centre, and offers free advice and workshops to any school using Apple tools to support teaching and learning.

Visitors to the LapSafe® BETT stand got the chance to find out how the popular Apple tablet can be utilised across a range of academic subjects, including business studies/economics, biology, classics and history.

In the short session, Dr Dennis spoke about how his pupils use tablet computers both inside and outside of the classroom, taking them on school trips to use GPS and create video blogs of their experiences. Dr Dennis explained how the iPads provide students with a range of academic staples, such as electronic dictionaries and calculators, and assume an important pastoral role by placing student information, such as commendations and medical details, at staff’s fingertips.

Dr Dennis also told visitors how he uses the UnoCart™ for iPads from LapSafe® Products to store, charge and sync his school’s tablets. Our charging cart for iPads will be on stand H39 for the rest of the BETT Show, along with our other Apple security and charging products, so why not come and take a look? We’ve designed these solutions to far exceed the capabilities of rival products, at a competitive price, so you won’t be disappointed!

For those of you that couldn’t make Dr Dennis’ talk, there’s a free downloadable guide to using iPads in the classroom available on the LapSafe® website. We’ve been giving away a new guide free each day throughout BETT, but if you missed any, they’re all available at www.lapsafe.com

In the afternoon, we held the second free teacher best practice event of the day on the LapSafe® stand. This time, we put our science hats on and demonstrated some practical science experiments using the ExplorerLAB™ mobile science cart. Visitors were treated to some simple science experiments that they could replicate in the classroom, with every attendee receiving a science goodie bag offering them the chance to win a prize.

The prize giving didn’t stop there; we gave all visitors to H39 another chance to win an interactive science pack in the final day of our “Where in the World is Professor Smarty Pots?’ competition. We’ve been running this prize draw all week to promote the ExplorerLAB™ mobile science laboratory.

We’ll be back bright and early tomorrow morning on the LapSafe® BETT stand H39 and would love to see you there. There’s still the chance to win a £30 Amazon voucher, meet our team and see our fantastic new range of solutions to manage mobile ICT in the classroom.