BYOT^4By: Katie

What is BYOT?

BYOT “Bring Your Own Technology” is a technology club for students. On days we have BYOT Club, we are allowed to bring our technology to school, which includes Ipods, Iphones, Ipads, tablets, etc.

The purpose of this club is to educate students about APPs that are useful to school work and education. APPs can offer multiple solutions for school projects.

What is Our Club BYOT^4?

BYOT^4 is a club that we do every 2 weeks after school. Each session introduces us to one or two new APPs that are available on devices.

Some of the APPs we use are really useful and fun. One of my favorite APPs is Animoto, which provides a way to take pictures from my device and add text plus music to create a custom video! I can use this tool for personal fun or to create a video for a school project.

Benefits from BYOTBenefits from BYOT include…

Learning new technology that will benefit my education and schoolwork. BYOT introduces technology that is frequently new information to me and my parents.

New APPs give me a larger “toolbox” to use when completing school projects.

The BYOT Club makes students more comfortable with finding new technology to solve problems.

Challenges of BYOT…

Challenges of BYOT for students include the inability to use phones, ipods, tablets, etc, in class on a daily basis. Since we can’t use our new APPs in school, we can’t become good at using these great new tools!

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