Company Blog

12:24   Steve Collis: @lynch_mark is presenting on Learnosity
12:24   Steve Collis: Company founded in 2007 - responsible for computer skills test so technology had to work in every situation. Simple, reliable
12:25   Steve Collis: Do work for the Learning Federation, BoS and many more. Have an office in Sydney and one in Dublin
12:25   Steve Collis: Their phone technology is just a tool, like pen and paper, they're not about telling teachers how to use it.
12:26   Steve Collis: Has so far been used with many different languages in many contexts.
12:26   [Comment From Laura] Yes steve
12:31   Steve Collis: Needed technology for assessing speaking. Had to be reliable. Computer audio is not reliable - headsets, sound cards etc not always reliable.
12:32   Steve Collis: Phone is the perfect tool - reliable, always works. Students say "Don't feel silly talking into a phone". Is culturally normal to talk into a phone!
12:33   Steve Collis: It feels normal.
12:33   Steve Collis: Mark is now ringing the phone service from his mobile & is entering his ID
12:34   Laura: Real life real time demo of learnosity is great! Technology working when it's needed
12:35   Steve Collis: He is asked questions over the phone, can speak and record himself, and can hear his answer back, and rerecord it until he's happy.
12:36   Laura: Audio cue q&a thru phone with review opp and rerecord option
12:37   Laura: Teacher and student login via net
12:38   Laura: Marking online; PDF output option
12:39   Laura: Students can get own feedback and sample answers by net
12:41   Laura: Is or will be option 4 teacher 2 record own questions
12:46   Laura: Was trialled at school in Ireland that was running from corporate box at a race course!
12:46   Steve Collis: Data - NCCA Irish Language Project (2007) - 67% significant progress, 95% enjoyed it, 93% recommended it
Learning Federation project -13 schools - 10% difference in mean scores before and after.
12:47   Steve Collis: http://foghlaim.edublogs.org/
12:48   Steve Collis: Report for Learning Federation project available here - http://www.learnosity.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/2/tlf-final-report
12:48   Steve Collis: Teachers comments "It's like having one on one time". "Nice hearing kids speaking that don't normally speak".
12:50   Laura: Language use improved greatly. Kids making jokes in TL
12:55   Laura: Challenges for widescale deploy: engagement of teachers telco govt
12:57   Laura: ((trying 2 remember name of proj in NY where Nikia (I think) donated hardware))
12:57   Laura: *nokia
1:01   Laura: http://bit.ly/ncca-mall