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Software & web tools

Links to learning resources that we've helped to develop, including prototype downloads, web tools and commercial products. Click on the project names or images for further background details on each one.

Create-A-Scape Create-A-Scape

Create-A-Scape is a website that provides resources for creating digitally-enhanced learning experiences, using mobile technology to experience location-sensitive sounds and images that have been ‘attached to’ the local landscape. Free web tool: all ages/subjects.
Go to: www.createascape.org.uk

Enquiring Minds Enquiring Minds

Enquiring Minds is an approach to teaching and learning that takes students’ ideas, interests and experiences as its starting point, and provides them with more responsibility for the direction and content of their learning. Free web resource: all ages/subjects.
Go to: www.enquiringminds.org.uk

Exploratree Exploratree

A free web resource (currently in beta version) which can be used for downloading, using and making interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can be useful for supporting independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry.
Go to: www.exploratree.org.uk

Iya-ola Iya-ola

Iya-ola is a collection of language learning games with a difference: the player can only progress through collaborating with a learner in a different country. Initially focusing on English and Spanish, it has the potential to be developed for other languages. Prototype: KS2 languages
Go to: Iya-ola download page

Language Train Language Train

The Language Train aims to create engaging tasks for students aged between 5 and 11 to practice phoneme recognition, by modelling different versions of words in Spanish. Prototype: KS1/2 languages.
Go to: Language Train download page

MediaStage MediaStage

Developed by Immersive Education with research support from Futurelab, MediaStage is a fully immersive 3D production studio that puts control of scenery, props, actors, cameras and lights into the hands of learners. Commercial product: KS3/4 media studies, English, drama.
Go to: www.immersiveeducation.com/mediastage

Moovl Moovl

Moovl is an interactive unique online tool which allows children to create images that move according to the dynamics of a simple set of physics rules. Working demo and commercial product: KS1 science, literacy, creativity.
Go to: www.moovl.com and www.moovl.co.uk

Newtoon Newtoon

Newtoon is a mobile phone and web activity which aims to embed physics learning in mobile gaming. It enables young people to author, play, edit and share fast-paced microgames based on a set of Newtonian physics principles. Prototype: KS3 science. Go to: sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/newtoon_microgame

Power League Power League

Power League is a free web resource for exploring any topic, through sampling group opinions and provoking group discussions. Create your own online leagues or use our existing ones. Can be used right across the curriculum with all age groups.
Go to: www.powerleague.org.uk

Racing Academy Racing Academy

Racing Academy is a racing videogame built on an advanced physics simulation engine. This prototype version has been trialled with older teenagers, and there is scope for it to become a multi-generational learning environment. Prototype: KS4 engineering, physics.
Go to: Racing Academy download page

Virtual Puppeteers Virtual Puppeteers

Virtual Puppeteers is a networked digital puppet theatre, which allows children in different locations to design their own 3D puppets and collaborate in an online stage-space to create their own plays. Trial version: KS2 creativity, citizenship, languages, drama.
Go to: www.virtualpuppeteers.com

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