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Scottish War Blinded Welcomes a New Four Legged Member

2/9/2012 10:48 AM EST  -   Royal Blind School
A former Guide Dog has recently joined Scottish War Blinded members as Scotland’s first buddy dog for adults.
The buddy dog scheme is run by Guide Dogs for the Blind and allows former Guide Dogs to use their skills in a less demanding environment. The scheme has previously only provided buddy dogs for children however five year old Oates, a black Labrador, has joined The Linburn Centre as the first buddy dog to...

Safer Internet Day: Contact Group calls for improved web monitoring on kids’ sma...

2/7/2012 5:30 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
As part of Safer Internet Day (7th February 2012), Stephen Clarke, Managing Director, Contact Group (www.the-contactgroup.com) comments on how to ensure children access the internet safely on their smartphones.
“The internet is now a day to day factor in the lives of most children. While this has brought a wealth of benefits, enabled us to learn more effectively and communicate more easily, it has also led to...

Gwynedd Council delivers bilingual care using CACI’s inTOUCH tool for mobile car...

2/1/2012 10:17 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
Gwynedd Council, winner of the 2011 Social Care Accolade for Improving Welsh Language Provision, has transformed its home care services with the help of inTOUCH from CACI (www.caci.co.uk) - a service optimisation and communications tool for local authorities employing mobile care workers. Gwynedd Council, which has used CACI's comprehensive care management software for several years, is committed to carrying out all...
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Swedish startup wants to be a Nike+ for language learning

1/31/2012 11:52 AM EST  -   Keewords
Keewords is a new, smart online service ⎯ a faster and more fun way to develop your language skills.
Learning a language requires continuity, motivation and perseverance. "It is in many ways similar to starting jogging or going to the gym," says Sten Ernerot ( ), CEO, Keewords.

Today, there are no good tools to help you set and track your goals when learning a...

Castlewellan Primary School improves pupils’ reading fluency and comprehension l...

1/26/2012 6:05 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
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Castlewellan Primary School in County Down, Northern Ireland, is proud to offer pupils a wide range of resources to support learning; especially its state-of-the-art ICT resources, which allow for interactive learning. With this in mind, they recently purchased Fluency Tutor, Texthelp’s online software solution designed to assess and improve pupils’ reading and comprehension levels.

Fluency Tutor is an...
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Spalding Education International Releases 6th Revised Edition of “The Writing Ro...

1/19/2012 7:30 AM EST  -   Spalding Education International
The Writing Road to Reading, a total language arts program for teaching speech, spelling, writing and reading, was first published in 1957. A recently completed four-year university study shows elementary students taught this research-based program had significantly higher achievement test scores than students using mainstream reading programs.
PHOENIX, Arizona – Jan. 19, 2012 – Spalding Education...
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Malaysia chooses UK learning platform provider to transform teaching and learnin...

1/9/2012 10:59 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
Frog announces that it has been selected by the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) as the learning platform technology for all of the country’s 10,000 state schools under the country’s 1Bestarinet Project.
Leading UK learning platform provider Frog, is delighted to announce that it has been selected by the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) as the learning platform technology for all of the country’s...

Frog helping schools improve at BETT 2012

1/3/2012 8:51 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
Award-winning learning platform provider Frog (www.frogtrade.com) will be showing schools how its learning platform can help them achieve whole school improvement, and add real value to how teaching and learning is delivered at BETT 2012 – on stand M50.
Frog works directly with over 600 schools and has captured the successes and the mistakes that these schools have made with technology in the past. Using this...
Contact Group showcases powerful automatic notification systems for schools and local authorities at BETT 2012
 

Contact Group showcases powerful automatic notification systems for schools and ...

1/3/2012 5:04 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
On Stand A31 at BETT 2012, Contact Group (trading name of Truancy Call Ltd) will be showcasing its extended portfolio of award-winning automatic notification systems. These include Looked After Call, a solution to monitor the attendance of Looked after Children  and a new ‘Text a Letter’ functionality for its Call Parents system, enabling schools to email or text letters to parents, saving them from having to print...

Caerphilly County Borough Council saves over £500,000 with OfficeBase and inTOUC...

12/23/2011 4:06 AM EST  -   Livewire PR
Caerphilly County Borough Council (Caerphilly) provides a wide range of social care services into the community, with the Home Assistance Reablement Team supporting service users across a largely rural 173 square mile area.

The team of over 300 field-based staff, monitoring officers, administrators and IT personnel, is committed to providing an efficient, high quality and cost-effective service.

The...