http://www.mandarama.com/

About the Mandarama web site

The Mandarama web site is an online Chinese learning, subscription-based web site aimed at new learners of Mandarin. Specifically targetting primary and secondary school students in the UK, USA and overseas schools the site features:

• Multiple integrated Flash games
• Chinese Wiki with audio, images
• full online postcard (e-card) system with audio messages and chinese text
• full content management system
• e-commerce subscription system integrated with Protx
• multiple account levels with set number of allowed logins

About Mandarama (from the Mandarama web site)

The company behind Mandarama is Bamboo Learning Limited (www.bamboolearning.com) - We only teach Mandarin Chinese and only to children - We are a team of experienced Mandarin Chinese educators, Western Digital content creators and professional managers.

Why Mandarama?

We are passionate specialists in providing opportunities for children to learn Mandarin Chinese - We are innovative – combining the best in learning Chinese with the best in Western style animation and thought leadership on ICT in education - We represent great value in comparison with one-off DVDs, books with no sound, non-dynamic content.

Technologies used:
XHTML, CSS, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Javascript

http://www.englishforlifeandwork.co.uk/

About this project

Brightlemon were chosen to work with Tribal Group to develop the front end design for this English Learning portal.

The site features mutiple languages - English, Polish, Urdu and Mandarin to cater for a diverse target audience.

About English for Life and Work

“Improve your English with online courses that will help you in your life and work in the UK”

The English for Life and Work web site is run by Tribal and CTAD and provides online courses in English specifically to native speakers of Polish, Urdu and Chinese.

Brightlemon worked on the design of the application built by Tribal.

Technologies used:
XHTML, CSS.

http://www.planschoolslink.org/

About this project

Brightlemon successfully launched an interactive messaging web site for Plan international - Plan Schools Link.

This social networking based site features private messaging among students in the UK and Africa. Additionally it contains customisable school profiles, messages with embedded Flash video, images, WYSIWYG editing and multiple access levels and related roles.

It also features forums (for Teachers only) and workflow and swearword filtering.

From the Plan Schools Link web site

Over 70 UK primary & secondary schools in the UK are now linking with their peers in Kenya,Sierra Leone and Malawi. The programme develops your children’s cultural awareness, contributes to curriculum development and helps you achieve the International School Award.

Plan ed can take the hard work out of the link for you because we have already found a school for you to link with. We put you in touch with an African school and support you to reach a partnership agreement to help you clarify mutual aims and objectives with your linked school.

You will receive a resource pack, with lesson activities, photos, DVD, take home activity, artefacts and access to downloadable and search friendly web resources (which are updated regularly).

Every term you will send and receive a correspondence with your partner school, carry out a set of activities for your children to learn about your linked country and work on a collaborative project of your choice.

You will receive ongoing support via a telephone helpline service and your linked school will receive support from dedicated plan staff.

Ten key benefits to Plan ed School Linking

• A facilitated link with a school overseas
• Your school will have an ongoing, actual link with a school in Malawi, Kenya or Sierra Leone
• Your children will have regular communications with children from your linked school (6 letters a year and email possibility). We suggest a class writes letters, but the whole school is involved through assemblies and curriculum days
• You will receive a resource booklet (with a fact sheet on link country, curriculum activity ideas, set of lesson plans,10 photos about day to day life of children in linked country; DVD on school life in your linked country; artefacts from linked country; take-home activity).
• Your children will have access to Linkzone a secure resource centre with online resources include videos, photographs and sound files
• Your teachers will receive expertise from School Linking Co-ordinators, who are teachers in the respective countries providing twice yearly inset and guidance
• Teachers and pupils will have the opportunity to have some management experience
• OFSTED Criteria of global dimension and ‘every child matters’
• Endorsements and evaluation by the Institute of Education
• Makes your school eligible for applying for the International Schools award

Why Plan?

Plan has been working in communities around the world for 70 years and is working with 64,000 communities. We have experience of working with children around the world and there are already 65 schools from Malawi, Kenya and Sierra Leone who are ready and keen to link.

What are the costs involved?

For all of the above benefits the cost is just £600:£400 of goes towards the benefits described above & £200 goes to your link school’s development fund. As Plan International is a registered retailer of Curriculum Online this means until August 2008 you can use your allocated e - learning credits to pay for all the benefits this programme provides, and you would then only be required to make the small contribution of £200 to you partner school’s development fund.

Technologies used:
XHTML, CSS, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Javascript,

http://www.shineweek.co.uk/

About the Shineweek web site

Site Summary

The Shineweek web site is a social networking site built along the lines of YouTube allowing children, teachers and creative organisations to upload content showcasing their talents. Users will be able to register and subsequent to verification upload video, photos, audio and written content and details of Shineweek related events.

Verification

The web site has a detailed verification system - each user associates himself/herself with a school from the Dcsf database
which is integrated into the web site. Once a user is registered they can request verification via phone, fax or email.

Tagging, voting and rating

The web site will also allow users to vote for, rate and tag content. As well as tagging of content using pre-defined fields, free tagging will be enabled to allow users to suggest and add new tags. This will enable users to generate ideas for what “talent” really is.

About Shine and Shineweek

Shine is a UK government initiative (organised by the Department for Children, Schools and Families formerly the Department for Education) aimed at showcasing the talent of all children in schools nationwide. It is jointly organised by Creative Partnerships, the Arts Council, the Talent and Enterprise Taskforce and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

From the Shine web site

We, the new youth culture trust with the DCSF, are inviting schools up and down the country to join this festival. We know there are many exciting end of year events already planned in schools. SHINE offers an opportunity to bring them together in the festival week and join a national campaign to celebrate the talent in everyone.

SHINE will create a real buzz with a strong media presence, the endorsement and support of the Prime Minister and other senior government ministers and well-known faces in the arts and the creative industries.

Technologies used:
XHTML, CSS, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Javascript