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Scholastic EducationServices Catalogue
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Scholastic is one of the world’s leading educational publishers. We have more than 25 years’ experience of delivering inspiring ways for teachers to become better teachers.
The rise of digital learning means an ever-greater need for high-quality, cost-effective digital content for the education market. We have developed a suite of tools and services that have enabled us to deliver exactly that quickly and easily.
We can now offer these tools to the broader education, publishing and government sectors in the UK and around the world.
We look forward to working with you!
Who are we?
lWe can provide accessible, educationally sound interactive content for your website.
lWe can transform existing text books or readers into enhanced digital formats.
lWe can collect and combine images and video into stunning multimedia presentations.
lWe can offer tools and guidance for you to develop resources for yourself.
What do we have to offer?
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Page 5 eTextbooks or eReaders
Page 10 Activity builder
Page 17 Collaborative learning
Page 20 Multimedia presentation
Page 23 Contact
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eTextbooks or eReaders
Our eBook format brings textbooks to life, making full use of the possibilities offered by different multimedia formats. It’s easy to create interactive books with rich multimedia content that can be shared with the whole class on an interactive whiteboard.
Our eBook development services extend to:
lStoryboarding for textbooks or readersl Interface concept and designlDesign and development of eReader or digital textbooklEditorial support for ‘Help’ notes or additional
support materials
Our eBook software offers:
lHigh quality digital text with simple page-turning animation l In-built toolbar to annotate or highlight textlAudio functionalitylEasy navigation and search lEmbedded medialLive glossary feature l In-built interactive activities to assess
children’s understanding lMultiple output options
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eTextbooks or eReaders
Turn any book into high-quality digital texts
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Page turning animation
Audio narration
Save your annotations
Interactive whiteboard toolbar including: Single / Double page spread view
Annotation tools
SpotlightSticky notes
eTextbooks or eReaders
eTextbooks or eReaders
Basic functionality
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Greater interactivity and engagement
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eTextbooks or eReaders
Advanced search functionality
Hyperlinked contents & index
Live glossary
Embedded media, including:
Flash animationPhotographsVideoAudio
Enhanced toolbar Cloze tools Focussed zoom
Pre-set cloze activities
Play-all feature with or without audio
Ability to embed music
Enhanced functionality
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Our activity builder helps you develop a range of engaging interactive activities for the web, CD or mobile device in seconds.
Our activity builder services extend to:
l Interface concept and design
l Authoring and creating interactive activities and support materials
l Adding a range of feedback options for the user
l Training and support for you to develop your own activities
The activity builder offers:
l14 ready-built assessment activity types
lCollaborative activities and writing frames
lFully flexible design and branding
lMultiple output options (from website to PDA)
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Activity builder
Flexible suite of activity creation tools
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Activity builder
Hot seats
Digital texts
Media activities
Presentation tools
Types of activity (i)
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Writing framesVariety of templates with writing /
annotation tools and media selection.
Assessment types
Multiple choice At least 14 different question
types
Drag and drop
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Types of activity (ii)
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Collaborative activities
Posting wall
Voting
Activity builder
Types of activity (iii)
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Activity builder
Styles and colours of the outputted resources can be ‘re-skinned’ to match brand, product or series style.
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Output options
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Collaborative learning
Unlock the collaborative power of storytelling with this unique digital learning environment. Just choose the characters, backgrounds and props for your story and place them into the Story Stage environment. Up to four users can use their own mouse to create, perform and record their own version of the story
Our Story Stage services extend to:
l Importing existing digital artwork to the Story Stage environment
l Creating additional artwork where required
l Editorial development of additional supporting materials
l Output to CD, online or for use on SMART Table
This collaborative learning environment offers:
lFacility for up to four users to manipulate characters simultaneously on a single PC
lAudio recording facilities enabling users to add their own voices
lAbility to save and share each version of the story
lOption to add a fully narrated eBook of the original story
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Collaborative learning
Creative multi-user software
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Four concurrent mice on one PC
Output to PC, Smart Table, iPad and other devices.
Prepare, perform and record with true collaboration
Sound and movement recording functionality
Collaborative learning
Features and outputs
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Build bespoke presentations that combine images, text, videos, web pages and user-generated content.
Our multimedia presentation services extend to:
lSourcing or commissioning resources (sound, video, photographs)
l Interface concept and design
l Design and development of presentations
Our multimedia presentation software offers:
lFacility to plan and deliver bespoke presentations from prepared banks of content
lFacility to upload resources into presentations
l Interactive whiteboard toolbar for annotations
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Multimedia presentation
Build bespoke presentations with prepared content banks
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Multimedia presentation
Select images, audio, video to build your presentation.Upload your
own resources
Plan and prepare your presentation using interactive topic webs.
Prepare and save your own presentations
Access ready-made presentations
Interactive whiteboard toolbar including: Annotation tools
Spotlight
Sticky notes
Include interactive presentation features
Functionality
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Contact
Scholastic EducationRange Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 0YDwww.scholastic.co.uk
Robin HuntPublishing Director, Scholastic [email protected] 01993 893202
Chris RatcliffeSales Director, Scholastic [email protected] 01993 893250