Press Release Archive 1997-1998
LONGMAN ANTICIPATES findings of BECTa's final
report on Integrated Learning Systems- 17/10/1998
Longman - the latest major entrant to the Integrated Learning Systems
(ILS) market - is forging ahead with Tomorrow's Promise, its highly flexible
new multimedia Curriculum, having anticipated and resolved many of the
initial shortcomings of existing ILS systems highlighted by Professor
Wood in The UK ILS Evaluations Final Report published recently by The
British Educational Communications and Technology agency (BECTa).
TOMORROW'S PROMISE- 11/08/1998
Schools Minister, Estelle Morris - having recently officially awarded
Alcester High School in Warwickshire, Technology College (TC) status -
was just one of the VIPs to be introduced to Longman's Tomorrow's Promise
- a highly flexible new multimedia curriculum.
NEW EDUCATIONAL DRAWING AND PAINTING SOFTWARE
- FLYING COLOURS-11/06/1998
LOGOTRON, publishers of the UK's most imaginative and widely used educational
applications for children, is pleased to announce the release of a major
new educational painting program for budding artists of all ages. Logotron
Flying Colours is the first all-in-one painting and animated drawing program,
available for both Windows 95/3.1 and all Macintosh computers.
LONGMAN APPLIES ITS EDUCATIONAL EXPERTISE TO
A NEW MULTIMEDIA-BASED CURRICULUM AND RE-DEFINES INTEGRATED LEARNING SYSTEMS-
11/06/1998
Longman is re-defining Integrated Learning Systems* by applying its in-depth
knowledge of the National Curriculum and educational publishing to Tomorrows
Promise - its highly-flexible new multimedia lesson scheme, designed to
develop the core numeracy and literacy skills outlined in the National
Curriculum (Key Stages 1-3). Developed to improve student learning within
primary, secondary and special needs schools, Tomorrow's Promise also
incorporates a powerful pupil assessment facility and management package
- two important tools created to lighten the administrative burden faced
by Teachers.
NURTURING THE PROBLEM SOLVER - TOMORROW’S
PROMISE MATHEMATICS FROM LONGMAN- 11/06/1998
Longman, the UK’s foremost educational publisher, has transformed
mathematics into a captivating multimedia adventure in the Tomorrow’s
Promise™ Mathematics Curriculum Key Stage 1-3 - a progressive course
of lessons developed to help students to realise their full potential
as problem-solvers. Comprising over 1,000 multi-sensory activities, Tomorrow’s
Promise Mathematics enhances learning through active discovery and by
helping students to improve their reasoning skills, making connections
across the curriculum and using mathematical information to communicate.
STORYSEARCH- 11/06/1998
New software set to spotlight literature in the classroom! Logotron, the
UK s leading software publisher for schools, have announced the publication
of the latest in the best-selling PinPoint Datafile Series - StorySearch
TOONTALK- 15/04/1998
Logotron, the UK's leading software publisher for schools, is announcing
the release of the latest state-of-the-art educational software, ToonTalk
- a self-teaching programming environment for children.
LOCAL SCHOOL WINS NATIONAL SCHOOLS CARTOON
COMPETITION- 06/03/1998
Logotron, the UK's leading software publisher to schools have announced
the results from their Design a New Bart Simpson cartoon competition that
was featured in association with The Guardian Newspaper last year.
LONGMAN BRINGS JOSTENS LEARNING TOMORROW'S
PROMISE TO UK SCHOOLS- 26/02/1998
Addison Wesley Longman (AWL), the famous schools book publisher, has announced
an agreement with Jostens Learning Corporation.
LOGOTRON WINS two European Software Grants-
26/02/1998
Project Match
Along with a select group of European software partners, Logotron has
won two important and substantial EC R&D funding awards for educational
software development.
LONGMAN PARTNERING WITH XEMPLAR-
26/02/1998
Addison Wesley Longman (AWL) - the leading schools book publisher, has
announced an alliance with Xemplar, one of the best known suppliers of
computer equipment to schools, to offer total solutions of software, hardware
and services to UK Primary and Secondary schools.
LONGMAN PARTNERING WITH VIGLEN- 26/02/1998
Addison Wesley Longman (AWL), the leading schools book publisher, has
announced a partnership with Viglen, one of the country's foremost personal
computer companies, to serve the Primary and Secondary Schools market.
ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR PRIMARY ICT CAPABILITY-
26/02/1998
LOGOTRON & SEMERC team up to launch Essential Tools for Primary IT
Capability - a partnership which will bring together the five most sought-after
software applications in UK Primary Schools.
POST 16 INTERACTIVE LEARNING SOFTWARE-
26/02/1998
Working Model 2D - The award winning desktop mechanical modelling system
from Knowledge Revolution for creating and analysing mechanical systems.
Widely used in engineering and CAD in Higher Education, now available
for the first time at a special price for schools and further education.
It puts onto the student’s own desktop a powerful, intuitive tool
for designing and building models of physical systems, and simulating
and analysing their behaviour.
CLASSROOM CONNECT - 14/01/1998
Make The Internet Make Sense - book & CD ROM resources for teachers
using the Internet and the World Wide Web.
NEW DISTRIBUTION deal for 'Teachers
Choice' Longman GCSE product - now available in the high street- 11/12/1997
GCSE students who used the newly launched Multimedia CD ROM Longman inside
track to GCSE Success to increase their exam grades during revision can
now buy it in the high street.
INSIDE TRACK to GCSE Success - Science-
20/11/1997
Teachers choice 'GCSE Software gets a grade A pass rate' Inside track
to GCSE Success improves grades by as much as 50%.
CAPTAIN CRIMSON- 20/11/1997
Grammar/spelling adventures for primary schools.
ZIG ZAG - THE VIKINGS ARE COMING!- 12/08/1997
Zig Zag: Vikings is a highly interactive software package for schools,
based on the Zig Zag BBC Schools TV programmes. Zig Zag provides a detailed
environment to immerse your pupils in real historical situations, featuring
different people and their civilisations. It will stimulate children's
interest and attention in history lessons dramatically.
THOMAS THE CLOWN- 11/06/1997
Released this month from Logotron is Thomas the Clown, an exciting, high
quality education software program on CD ROM. Developed for nursery and
pre-school children from as young as 4 years, it is also valuable for
use with older learners up to 8 years.
ROBERT DUNCAN- 10/06/1997
An interactive look at cartooning.
PENDOWN FOR WINDOWS- 25/04/1997
This word processing package will provide sound educational principles
for teaching pupils, step by step, from the very basics to creating documents,
editing text, adding pictures and so on.
SUPERLOGO: WINDOWS-22/04/1997
Programming for Kids - The program that makes maths fun.
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