Introduction
About Buzzy’s Club and Buzzy Bee TV/My Studio for grown-ups
Hello grown-ups! Here are some more details about Buzzy’s Club so that you can join in the fun and find the resources we’ve created to help your little people learn and grow with Buzzy Bee & friends.
Buzzy’s Club is a secure, closed environment where you can share your child’s first experience of multi-media and access rainy day play activities and other resources to help you do the most important job in the world.
All of our resources are guided by the principle that children’s play is their most valuable learning experience. Through play, pre-schoolers learn how to reflect and decipher the world around them.
Buzzy and his friends support traditional values such as respect, trust, kindness, feeling a sense belonging and responsibility, being curious, independent and learning how to manage emotions. Through stories, interactive apps and other resources Buzzy Bee & friends actively encourage children in their development of language and social, cognitive, emotional and physical skills.
Buzzy Bee TV/My Studio is a new app which has been developed to allow pre-schoolers to record their own stories and play moments and store and share them with selected friends and family. With your help, pre-schoolers can respond to Buzzy’s invitation to share story topics with the wider Buzzy Bee & friends community at Buzzy’s Club if you opt-in to allow them to do so.
Content is securely stored in the child’s own studio (My Studio) and can be safely shared with family members and friends or other club members if you opt in to share with Buzzy and your video is selected as one of Buzzy’s featured favourites. You get to choose who can view your child’s videos. ‘Buzzy Bee TV My Studio’ video and sharing app is the first of its kind in New Zealand.
Invitees - Sharing with friends and family
As the person in charge you can decide who gets to see your child's stories, and no-one else can see them (unless you opt-in to share them when Buzzy invites story requests, in which case they may be featured on Buzzy’s Club home page). When you invite a friend, they will need to sign up, and then sign in each time to view the videos. You can revoke their access at any stage, and they can not download or view the videos outside of Buzzy Bee TV/My Studio.
Inbox and messaging
The friends and family you invite to view the stories will be able to send a message back to the child. They can't just write a free text message, only choose from a number of audio message options from the different characters.
Facebook and Social Networks
We have provided the option for you to sign up using your Facebook account. What this means is that you be able to sign in to this website using your Facebook username and password, rather than having another to remember another password just for our site.
In addition, you can choose from your Facebook friends (you still get to decide which ones) who you want to be able to view video stories from your children. You still retain complete control, this just makes it easier.
It is important to understand that at no time do we post any video or images of your children on Facebook. If you invite one of your Facebook friends to view video stories, they still need to sign in to Buzzy’s Club to see it.
If you don't want to connect your Facebook account to this site, no problem at all as this is entirely optional, and you can just sign up with a username and password just for this site.
We hope you enjoy being part of Buzzy’s Club.
Buzzy bye for now!