The idea behind Storyteller is simple, with the emphasis on oracy and imagination. Sets of pictures help you tell a story, with the computer recording all you say. True, the more ICT literate could have done this before, but not with so little effort and so instant a result.
A quick-start guide, manual and on-screen tutorials […]

Here’s a great chance to see your class or an individual students’ work turned into a MightyBook! Just get the children to write a story between 1000 to 2000 words either fiction or non-fiction, and on any subject matter. All submissions must be age-appropriate for children in age groups two to four, four to […]

Does anyone else have a dread of the recent announcement that parents will be able to call in the Ofsted team into a school?
Considerations;

Have we slumped to the point that parents have to act as the police force when Ofsted are surely charged as the invigilator?
Have Ofsted lost their “bottle”, concerned at the frequent condemnation […]

Keen2learn has just signed an exclusive arrangement to market MightyBook in the UK. MightyBook’s award winning animated electronic books help schools and parents show their kids how much fun learning to read can be. Internet technology has been used to create on-line animated musical sing and read-along children’s books complete with voices and […]

Traditional parents’ evenings are becoming less popular and schools should consider other ways to communicate with families, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said today, 7th May 2008
Speaking at an event today on the government’s Parent Know How programme, which aims to develop new and innovative ways of helping parents access information and support, Balls said […]

The vital role of dads in bedtime reading is under threat, new research by the National Year of Reading reveals less than half of dads (42 per cent) say they regularly read bedtime stories to their children, while mums are twice as likely (76 per cent) to do so, despite bedtime reading being one of […]