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10th BETT Awards - The 2008 Winners
The winners of the prestigious BETT Awards 2008 were announced on Wednesday 9 January, 2008 at the BETT Awards Dinner held at The Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.
The annual BETT Awards represent a partnership between Becta, the Government’s lead agency for ICT in education, BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry and Emap Education, the organisers of BETT – the largest educational technology show in the world.
The awards encourage and recognise outstanding education sector resources and learning solutions. Judges review the entries based on criteria including design, cost-effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles. The technical criteria against which the awards were judged focused on the robustness and resilience of each product, and its accessibility for those with specific needs.
This year’s winners in each category are:
Category |
Product |
Supplier |
| Early Years Solutions |
Noisy Things |
Q&D Multimedia Ltd |
Digital Content – Primary (Core Subjects)
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Focus on Bee-Bot: Lesson Activities |
Focus Educational Software Ltd |
Digital Content – Primary (Other)
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Rigolo |
Nelson Thornes |
Digital Content – Secondary (Other)
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Focus on Film |
The National Archives |
Primary and Secondary Hardware
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Robosapien™ |
Wowwee Ltd
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Special Educational Needs Solutions
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ChooseIt! Ready-Mades Numeracy Series |
Inclusive Technology Ltd |
Post 16 Education and Training Digital Content
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SimVenture |
Venture Simulations Ltd |
Supporting Institutional Leadership and Management Solutions
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Bluewave SWIFT |
Bluewave International Ltd and Education Leeds |
e-Assessment for Learning
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Smart Cat Profiling |
Screen Learning |
| Inclusion Award |
Espresso Primary: Sustainability module in collaborationwith the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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Espresso Education |
Creative and Constructive Tools
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2Paint A Picture |
2Simple Software |
Colin Penfold, Director of Partnerships and Commissioning, Becta and joint chair of judging said: "Technology has enormous potential to improve teaching and learning. These awards demonstrate and recognise the excellent work being carried out to harness this power of technology in education. Well-designed resources used effectively help learners to achieve their full potential. The winners should be congratulated for their innovative resources, which are undoubtedly helping to transform education.”
Ray Barker, director, BESA and Joint Chair of Judging added: “The winners are all contributing to raising the standards of learning resources. Each ensures that BETT and the UK ICT industry continue to be recognised as the best in the world.
The quality of these learning resources is a testament to business’ operating within the UK education sector.”
Briony Mansell Lewis, exhibition director at Emap Public Sector summarised: “Achieving ‘winner’ status in the BETT Awards has become recognised as a mark of excellence that companies strive to achieve.”
Please click here to view the video clips of the Winners
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