16 January 2012

The 2012 BETT Show kicked off on Wednesday with a huge announcement from Education Secretary Michael Gove. As of September, the existing ICT curriculum is to be scrapped in favour of an approach focusing on computer science and programming. Ian Livingstone, an adviser to Gove, envisages a new curriculum that could see pupils creating their own apps for smartphones and writing their own simple programming language.

At an awards ceremony last Wednesday the winners of the BETT 2012 Awards were announced and we are thrilled to congratulate two of our partners - Radiowaves and Just2Easy on their awards. Radiowaves came away with 'ICT Company of the Year (less than £1m turnover)' and Just2Easy won the award for 'ICT Tools for Learning and Teaching'. Congratulations to you both!

10 January 2012

Join us at the BETT show in London this week for a free Promethean ActivClassroom workshop. Taking place at the Hilton London Olympia Hotel (next door to BETT), these workshops will be delivered by one of our accredited Promethean trainers, giving you the chance to discover how the ActivClassroom can be used to enhance learning.

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19 December 2011

Our friends at Mayer-Johnson are holding a series of seminars in 6 locations across the UK. Book now! 

Symbols are widely used to support communication, teaching and learning throughout the whole school community, but many professionals don't have the time or resources to dedicate to developing strategies for their effective use. Mayer-Johnson are taking their half day CPD seminars across the country to ensure you can take advantage of this learning and development opportunity. The half day CPD seminars focus on the latest knowledge, skills and best practice from experts and education case-studies, which will be relevant and useful to your work practice.

These ‘Achieving Success Through Symbols’ seminars are just £25 (+VAT) and are suitable for all teaching staff, TAs Heads & deputies, Local authority advisors and speech therapists - to name but a few.

29 November 2011

A visual prospectus service has been launched by FantastICT's sister company the Multimedia Learning Alliance. A visual prospectus is a short, high-quality video that shows parents, pupils and the wider community all that a school has to offer. Many schools are moving to providing a visual prospectus to complement, and sometimes replace, existing school brochures. Working with an experienced video production team that specialises in education, we can offer the professional quality that is paramount for a video that will play such an important role in publicising a school's image.

For more information please visit the MLA.