Frog is an educational portal aimed at institution ranging from primary schools – high schools. It uses the idea of blended learning in the classroom environment to develop and promote learning. It is also multi-platform as it is available on tablet as an application. I researched into an articles from a IT co-ordinator at Blackheath primary school who summarise the key point in detail.
Frog Pros
- Smooth transition between pages
- Pinpoint multimedia resources from Google images, Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo
- Quick launch your calendar, documents, email and loads more
- Changes to widgets make it easier to edit pages
- Booking timetables
- Compatible with most (if not all) browsers! No more Internet Explorer!
- Compatible with tablets
- Professional and fun looking themes to cater for all users.
Items to consider
- The structure has completely changed. There are no longer Me, Classes and School areas which means that you can work how ever you want to within Frog. If these areas worked for you then you can create the same kind of structure in the school dashboard. If you wanted to organise your platform to suit you and your setting then that is now possible with the simplified structure which offers more versatility.
- Frog will support your current primary platform for the next 3 years so that you can develop FrogOS while still using Frog 3.0. This gives you loads of time to develop your new platform and to make sure it is just how you want it before you launch.
- If you are anything like me, you will want to dive right in and get started. Think carefully about how you can use the new features and flexibility to create new areas, join areas together from your existing platform or simply add the whole area to the school dashboard so that it can’t be missed. Some areas may no longer be needed as the new features, such as booking calendars and quizzes and polls, may eliminate the need for them.
How i’m going to use the data to further research and design (inform my own work)
From looking at Frog critically i am going to take away from this the key points that interest me, which are: i really like the idea that all aspects of learning are in one location meaning as a user everything is easily accessible in one place on either one browser or application. It is a feature like this that i would very much like to incorporate into my own design. The huge customisation option that are available for institutions allowing them to stylise to match existing house branding thus creating the service to appear as an extension of the institution. The idea of customisation is a very close aspect of my project as like i mentioned previously in the critical review of blackboard the ability to customise allows the user to feel as if the service is personal to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyR4QH0R0dM
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyR4QH0R0dM
http://blog.frogeducation.com/2013/02/26/review-of-frogos-from-an-existing-school/