BETT Awards 2010 – Finalists Announced

[russdev]

The finalists for the 12th annual BETT Awards have been announced by organisers Emap, and partners Becta and the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA).

Every year, the BETT Awards receive a large number of high quality entries from ICT educational suppliers of all shapes and sizes, hoping to win one of the outstanding awards that commend exemplar ICT products or services intended to improve standards in UK educational institutions.

The BETT Awards are considered to be the most prestigious in the education sector, and is committed to five key principles:
To celebrate a distinctive and diverse digital education resources market
Represent and meet the needs of the education system
Stimulate the design, production and delivery of high quality learning resources
Provide options for practitioners, learners and parents who want to use innovative and distinctive educational resources
Reward inclusive and accessible designs.

Richard Joslin, exhibition director at Emap for BETT and the BETT Awards comments: “There are a huge number of educational suppliers that offer our sector unprecedented products and services to ensure that learning is continually advancing. The BETT awards offer a fantastic opportunity for these companies to receive the recognition and reward that they so truly deserve. Every year, the awards strive to evolve and this year we have new categories which include ICT Service and Support, Learning and Teaching Tools, Digital Collections and Resource Banks, and Digital Devices.”

The BETT Awards 2010 finalists:

Early Years Solutions
Inclusive Technology Ltd MyBoard
Smart Learning Phase 1 Phonics
Q&D Multimedia Ltd Pretty Things

Primary Digital Content
Rising Stars Cracking Comprehension Years 3-6
Early Vision Ltd Eco Vision Set
Focus Educational Software Ltd Focus on Bee-Bot: Lesson Activities 2 & Bee-Bot Shell Designer
East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) Myths and Legends
Cambridge University Press and Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited Race to Learn
Tate Tate Kids

Secondary, FE & Skills Digital Content
Bowland Charitable Trust Bowland maths
East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) Cookit
Serious Games Interactive Global Conflicts: Palestine
The Wonder Project Questioning Origins
Gemin-i.org Rafi.ki
Show Me How to Play.com Show Me How to Play

Digital Collections and resource banks
Espresso Education Ltd Channel 4 Learning Clipbank
Charanga Ltd Charanga Music
English and Media Centre emagazine subscription website
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
BDP Learning Supporting learner progression: a Teaching and Learning resource
Education Digital Teachers TV Website
The National Archives The Cabinet Papers 1915-1978

Leadership & Management solutions
e-safe education Ltd e-safe education Managed Service Provision
HCSS Education Ltd FPSadvance.Net
NetSupport Ltd NetSupport School
ParentPay Limited ParentPay Total Income Management
TSL Education Ltd TES HireWire
Vivo Miles Vivo Miles

Special Educational needs Solutions
TTS Group Ltd Attention Tracker
BBC CBBC Accessible Newsreader
TTS Group Ltd Chatter-Block
Optelec Limited FarView
Royal National College for the Blind RoboBraille
Crick Software WriteOnline

Tools for Learning and Teaching
2Simple Software 2Do It Yourself
2Simple Software 2Simple Online Tools (Package A)
British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Learning- Booknotes
Creaza Creaza
Get Revising Ltd. Get Revising
Just2easy Limited j2e
Radio in Schools Ltd Radio in Schools

Digital Devices
ClickView Ltd ClickView 24-7
NComputing NComputing X-series
A1 Technologies Ltd RapMan
Mantra Lingua Ltd. RecorderPEN
SMART Technologies ULC SMART Table

ICT Exporter of the Year 2010
EducationCity.com
Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd.
Genee World
Manic Monkey Ltd
Promethean
Whizz Education

ICT Service and Support Award 2010
3P Learning
Espresso
Inclusive Technology
Joskos
Microsoft Innovative Teachers Network
RM
ICT Education Partnership Award 2010
Brightlemon
Learning Possibilities (LP+)
Sirius Corporation and the North West Learning Grid
Tsunami Group
Whizz Education
EuroCreator.com | EuroCreator is an educational initiative designed to encourage students

ICT Company of the Year 2010
Avermedia
Capita Children's Services
Education City
Espresso Education
Frog
Inclusive Technology

Ray Barker, Director of BESA adds: “Every year the BETT Awards recognise excellence in the design of products and services which are positively influencing the education sector. With technology in education growing ever more innovative, it is important that these prestigious awards give credit to those who deserve it.”

Stephen Lucey at Becta concludes: “The BETT Awards provide a great snapshot of technology both emerging and in current use. The range of categories and diversity of finalists demonstrate the increasing number of high quality products and services available to enhance learning and teaching. The awards, as always, highlight the rich opportunities provided by technology when effectively used and point the way to resources judged as an exemplar of learning technology at its best, to guide users and reward and further stimulate providers.”

The awards are judged by over 60 educational professionals over two days and each entry goes through a meticulous judging process. Judges review each entry based on a number of criteria such as design, cost-effectiveness, effective learning and teaching styles. For the technical evaluation, the robustness and resilience of each product, and its accessibility for those with specific needs is considered.

Winners will be announced at the BETT Awards ceremony taking place on Wednesday 13 January 2010 at the Hilton, Park Lane, London, the evening of the first day of BETT, the world’s largest technology in education show.

For more information on the BETT Awards, visit www.bettawards.com, or on BETT, visit BETT 2010 - Welcome to BETT online

[tom_newton]

Bah. Good job the office cat is on holiday this week

[SYSMAN_MK]

Something seems to be missing from "ICT Service and Support Award 2010"

[ICTNUT]

Something seems to be missing from "ICT Service and Support Award 2010"

Hmmm yes funny that, I wonder when it will appear on the list?.....

[russdev]

I have thought about it for last couple of years so maybe next year...

Russ

[GrumbleDook]

You need to have *proven* *educational* benefits, not cost savings, not cuddliness ... oh, and a good marketing budget!

It is often hard for tech support to show it makes an educational difference.

[alan-d]

Sneaked a view of the report;

Edugeek - 'Shows potential but must try harder!'

[john]

Bah. Good job the office cat is on holiday this week

:O You wouldn't have kicked it would you Tom? I do agree thought you should be up there blasted others getting in the way!

As for the lack of Edugeek, the stage wouldn't be big enough to take all our members and the speeches would go on forever..... I am sure we will be there one day

[tom_newton]

John: no, its just that the cat gets well grumpy when we miss out on getting shortlisted for anything

[Busybub]

You need to have *proven* *educational* benefits, not cost savings, not cuddliness ... oh, and a good marketing budget!

It is often hard for tech support to show it makes an educational difference.

Shut Edugeek down for a year and they'll all find out!

[elsiegee40]

That's an awful lot of nominations... what do you have to do not to get nominated?

[Netman]

That's an awful lot of nominations... what do you have to do not to get nominated?

Be Open Source?

[Theblacksheep]

Crick Software WriteOnline

How the hell is that software listed here?!?!?!

[bonjour]

ICT Service and Support Award 2010
3P Learning
Espresso
Inclusive Technology
Joskos
Microsoft Innovative Teachers Network
RM
ICT Education Partnership Award 2010
Brightlemon
Learning Possibilities (LP+)
Sirius Corporation and the North West Learning Grid
Tsunami Group
Whizz Education