Shortlisted for BETT Awards 2006 in two different categories with three products (2Create, 2Animate and 2Create A Story), 2Simple will be launching two brand new titles on Stand C54.
One of the new releases, Simple City, is a virtual city designed to be explored by foundation stage and KS1 children. It brings the real world into the classroom, stimulating language, independence, listening and creative play. Children can explore ten different locations to build their very own house or car or to design various environments such as a zoo or garden. The activities promote children’s creative play on and off the computer; every unit is introduced by an expert and there are also videos showing children playing in a role pla0y area, linking the on-screen games to the real world.
The second title is 2Connect, a mind-mapping and planning tool designed to help children in Key Stages 1 and 2 with their writing skills. It allows children to put their ideas together on a page and organise their thoughts either individually or collaboratively on a network. It will work with any application so long as there is a cursor – either 2Simple’s other products or with Word, etc, or it can be used as a word bank when planning or writing. In addition, 2Simple will be launching a third new product which they are keeping under wraps until BETT itself.
Jam On It. Designed as an appealing mix of formal curriculum based resources and engaging informal learning, BBC jam will launch 20 subjects throughout The first seven are maths and English for 5-7 year olds, geography and science for 7-9 year olds, French for 11-14 year olds and statistics and business studies for 14-16 year olds. The service is aimed first and foremost at the children themselves, but it also helps teachers to speak their pupils’ language and so makes an exciting addition to any lesson. It will not only help support lesson activities in school but can be used in the home, allowing children to work at their own pace, learning in a way that interests them. Liz Cleaver, controller of learning and interactive, BBC, said: “The world in which pupils today live and learn is changing, and with BBC jam we wanted to provide a service that would stimulate children and engage them in education by putting creativity and control into their hands.”