We are proud to announce that two of our websites, designed and built for E2BN (The East of England Broadband Network), have been shortlisted for the 2010 BETT Awards.

Myths and Legends has been shortlisted for the “Primary Digital Content” award. This very popular and much loved story website receives thousands of submissions each year from all over the world using our Flash-based ‘Story Creator’ application.

Cookit has been shortlisted in the “Secondary, FE & Skills Digital Content” category. Visited by hundreds of students daily, Cookit is a lively and engaging, healthy eating website allowing students to publish their own recipes in text or media.

We are very proud to have worked with E2BN to have produced two finalist nominations this year and look forward to the announcement of the results in January.

This is an old site and the money was erased and it’s long since gone. But it was for the legendary Blue Peter, so we’ve kept this little mention of it.

Produced in conjunction with The BBC, Save the Children, ContinYou and The Federation of City Farms and Gardens, Mission Nutrition put two million meals on plates for children around the world.

Aimed at 6-12 year olds, the website allowed users to view videos, download fundraising packs and add their own bring-and-buy sales to the interactive Mission Nutrition map. The site was designed and programmed entirely in-house and was fully updateable via a bespoke Content Management System.

Due to popular demand Gooii have produced ‘The Fab Phonics – Explore CVCs’ web version, available exclusively on Teachit Primary. Each spelling game now includes over 50 phonetic sounds and illustrations, with Teachit Primary members receiving a special discount on CD-ROM version too.

View ‘The Fab-Phonics – Explore CVCs’ on Teachit Primary

My nephew, 18 months old and already a minor (hoho) celebrity on YouTube. Filmed on a recent trip to NY I think jetlag got the better of him. Ahhhh.

Gooii are proud to have designed and built this year’s Blue Peter Appeal 2008 website, ‘Mission Nutrition’.

Gooii are pleased to announce that we have been placed on the BBC’s preferred supplier list.

Well we’ve had the big 3 and here is Phil Gooii’s Unofficial Scorecard.

Ironman – 8/10
The Incredible Hulk – 7/10
The Dark Knight – 10/10

It’s enough to make me want to buy a Blu-Ray player, but not quite.

Using a remote controller from the Nintendo Wii and few dollars of additional hardware, new tech genius Johhny Lee has produced an Interactive Whiteboard for under $50. This could prove a very cost effective way of getting interactive whiteboards into schools around the world. He’s also produced a 3-D head mounted viewer which is equally impressive.

To find out more about Johhny Lee’s Wiimote projects visit: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Bird Box is back. The SEGfL Bird box project is providing schools with an opportunity to share video and data streams collected from nesting boxes fitted with video cameras and other data gathering equipment. Bird Box Project 2008 is underway and is already shaping up to be the best year yet.

To find out more or to view the webcams visit:

www.segfl.org.uk/birdbox

The ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’ educational programme engages primary and secondary school teachers in the exploration of identity, diversity and citizenship with children and young people – in their schools, local communities and nationally.

The project follows the recent Curriculum Review on Diversity and Citizenship, undertaken by Sir Keith Ajegbo, which recommended that all schools participate in a high profile, national event – titled ‘Who do we think we are? Week’.