Filed under 'Industry':Vivid Mobile Development Webinar
Vivid hosted their first webinar on 13 July to share the research they have done into developing educational content for mobiles.
We are currently extending our services to embrace this emerging market following a strategic look at business models and development pathways.
If you couldn’t make it to the webinar or would like to take another look you can view a recording.
You can visit our mobile-friendly web pages at www.vividinteractive.co.uk/mobile for latest news and contact details.
Shortlisted for BETT award again
We are very pleased that Cracking Comprehension, a primary literacy program that Vivid Interactive designed and developed for Rising Stars, has been shortlisted for a BETT 2010 award in the ‘Primary digital content’ category.
This category attracts a huge number of entries so being shortlisted really does indicate the exemplary nature of this fantastic program.
Mick’s musings
Vivid Interactive MD, Mick Landmann, has set up a blog to discuss issues around education and digital media. He is very keen to extend his discussion to anyone who is involved in or has views on education in the 21st century.
Designs on the future
Well-designed school buildings with high quality facilities, especially for ICT, are the key to delivering effective, personalised education.
The Government’s £48bn Building Schools for the Future program aims to help local authorities update and improve school buildings, or rebuild secondary schools if necessary.
Crucial to this programme is the need to integrate digital technology into school infrastructure. More »
A virus ate my e-portfolio, miss
An e-portfolio is a digital collection of pupils’ education documents, but it has the potential to do much more.
Before technology got sophisticated, pupils stored their work in notebooks or folders, which were vulnerable to loss and damage and filled up. More »
Education without frontiers
Imagine a world where education fits the pupils, rather than the pupils learning to fit into the system. Sounds simple, doesn’t it.
Well, that’s ‘personalisation’ in a nutshell.
The Plowden Report of 1967 says that:
“The school sets out….to devise the right environment for children to allow them to be themselves and to develop in the way and at a pace appropriate to them…”
Yet the practicalities of a teacher led classroom based education has not been able to deliver on ideals. More »
Classrooms without walls
Flexibility is the key to the new national curriculum with learning taking place in and out of the classroom.
The aim is to tailor education to pupils’ needs to a greater extent and to make closer links with employment and the skills required in the 21st century world of work. More »
In the palm of your hand
The Handheld Learning conference 13-15 October 2008
This was a conference where you were spoilt for choice. It was thronged with like-minded people who had intriguing and interesting takes on the future of learning in the 21st century.
Digital technology can enrich the lives of our young people and this was an ideal place to see how.
Highlights included three young people showing their short films, which were astonishingly good, with corresponding confidence and presentation skills. More »
