Not ‘joust’ another award for Typing Tournament!

Friday, 7 October 2005 saw the annual Australian Teachers of Media (AToM) Film, Television and Multimedia Awards in Melbourne. With two products nominated in four categories, Armidale-based educational software publisher EdAlive collected the Best Instructional/Training Resource Category for its keyboard tutor product, Typing Tournament.

In attendance at the awards were EdAlive founders Graham and Barbara East. “We have been fortunate to receive a number of nominations and subsequent awards in 2005” says Graham East, “but it is especially gratifying to receive recognition in such a quality line-up of Australian and New Zealand talent”.

Typing Tournament is a complete typing tutor for ‘kids’ of all ages. It is based around the theme of a medieval ‘tournament’ and features a series of tests and challenges to iteratively improve the user’s skills.

“We looked at a huge sample of products available on the market and after lengthy planning decided on the tournament idea” explains East, a former primary school teacher. “Typing is not a subject to set the world alight, but in the modern world it is a core skill. We wanted to make it fun”.

Other nominations at the AToM Awards for a number of the EdAlive range included Best Primary Education Resource, Best Secondary Education Resource and Best Multimedia Learning Reference, Further information is available at www.atomawards.org

About EdAlive

EdAlive is a team of teachers, parents and I.T. professionals dedicated to making computer-based games and resources that motivate kids to learn. EdAlive's mission is to give every child in every school and home access to exciting, content-rich, low-cost educational software that will increase their chances of success in core learning areas.

EdAlive knows that kids:

• want learning to be fun
  
• want to experience success and build on it

EdAlive understands that parents and teachers:

• want to see kids enjoying the pleasure of learning
  
• want educationally-sound, curriculum-based material presented in a ordered learning sequence
  
• want measurable results
  
• want real value for money - neither short-term, throwaway gimmicks, nor cumbersome, high-cost tutoring systems

Further information is available at http://www.edalive.com

Contact Details

Michael Milgate PhD
Marketing Manager
EdAlive
+61 2 6776 0200