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More awards success for Twig

Posted: March 22, 2012 in Digital Education
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Twig continues its run of awards success with an ERA for Best Secondary digital content!

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Last week, Twig won an Education Resource Award for the Best Secondary Resource or Equipment involving ICT.  The award, presented at The Education Show, recognised Twig Science as “an outstanding resource for teaching secondary science. The wide variety of science topics are carefully graded and presented in a visually stimulating way”.  Twig Science was also a finalist in the Innovation Award category.  For more on other recent awards, visit Twig.

This year, Twig has also won a prestigious BETT Award for Best Secondary Content and an Interactive Media Award, and is nominated in the Learning on Screen Awards 2012.

More awards news from Twig

Posted: February 14, 2012 in Digital Education, Digital Media
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Twig is nominated for in the 2012 Education Resource Awards and the 2012 Learning on Screen Awards.

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Very pleased to announce that Twig Science is a finalist in the 2012 Education Resource Awards in the categories Best Secondary Digital Content and the Innovation Award.  The ERAs highlight the quality and diversity of educational products and resources.  The ERAs will be held on the 16th March in Birmingham during The Education Show 2012.

Twig is also a finalist in the Learning on Screen Awards 2012, in the Courseware and Curriculum Awards category. The Learning on Screen Awards celebrate and reward excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research.  It is an award from the British Universities Film & Video Council.  The Learning on Screen Awards are at the BFI Southbank, London on Thursday 26 April 2012, presented by Professor Lord Robert Winston.

Twig has also been awarded Best in Class in the Science/Technology category in the Interactive Media Awards 2012. The award recognises the usability and innovation of content, and the technical functionality of sites.  We achieved a total score of 100 out of 100 for our content, 99 out of 100 for our feature functionality, and 97 out of 100 for our design.  Overall, Twig scored 488 out of 500 for the five judging criteria.

Twig is a digital education innovator based in Glasgow and London, where I am currently Head of Content.  These awards come soon after Twig Science was named Best Secondary Content provider at the 14th annual BETT Awards 2012, considered to be the most prestigious in the digital education sector.

Twig wins at the BETT Awards 2012

Posted: January 14, 2012 in Digital Education
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Last week, Twig was named Best Secondary Content provider at the 14th annual BETT Awards 2012.  The ceremony was held in London on the first day of BETT, the world’s largest educational technology showcase.

The BETT Awards are considered to be the most prestigious in the digital education sector.  Ray Barker, Director of BESA and Chair of judges, says: “the BETT Awards are now the standard by which the UK and international education industry can recognise and reward valuable and innovative resources.”

The award recognises the outstanding editorial quality of our content, and our commitment to delivering engaging and accessible science learning.  The award comes at the end of a remarkable first year for Twig in which we launched our service to clients across the UK and internationally.