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Qwizdom Already Working In A Big Society

David Cameron announced this week his vision of a Big Society, a drive to empower communities. It turns out Qwizdom has long been involved in empowering communities long before the Big Society moniker. From Housing Associations to Resident Involvement Groups to Community Engagement Initiatives, Qwizdom has been used and is being...

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Maths Busking

How street performers used Maths to attract punters. It's not essentially a Qwizdom related thing but it's quite good. keep reading

Engaging with Communities

The Community Development Foundation has recently published a paper entitled 'Engaging with Communities: Lessons from the frontline' The paper looks at the impact of different empowerment activities and includes details of how Qwizdom's Audience Response System was used in Tower Hamlets' participatory budgeting project. keep reading

Students drive their way to Qwizdom prize

  A team of budding enthusiasts from Bay House School, Gosport, Hampshire, have just drove their way to a class set of Qwizdom Q4 handsets by becoming the 2010 Overall Champions prize in the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge for Schools, the UK’s biggest maths challenge for schools.   In all, 92...

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Mind The Gap?

Attending a conference last week got me thinking about another possible use for Qwizdom’s audience response systems. It’s around the area of gap analysis. Imagine a company who wanted to examine the difference between the quality-level of management expected by staff and the perception of those expectations by management. Not only could...

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Time For A Makeover

Hi there, We're currently updating the look and feel of our blog. In the interim the design will be a generic Wordpress skin. You can read and comment on posts as normal. If you have any questions, issues etc you can contact me on keep reading

Feedback from the Individual: Fuel for Democracy

In the UK, the upcoming general election is ...

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Five Pound School

Qwizdom UK are proud to announce their partnership with FivePoundSchool.Org. As of 18th March, with every purchase of Qwizdom's classroom/audience response sytem, we'll make a donation to Five Pound School. The aim of Five Pound School is to build a school in Uganda by getting 10,000 people to donate £5. A little...

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Qwizdom on US Television

If you look closely at this news report, you'll see the Qwizdom Q4s in action. Channel 6 News in Indianapolos visited a Public Montesorri school which recently hosted a classroom media event to demonstrate how interactive technologies are changing the way children engage and learn. Keep a close eye out for the...

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From the U.S. Students Click, and a Quiz Becomes a Game

Here a link from a story that featured in the New York Times. It's a little old but it gives a flavour of how Learner Response Systems are used and viewed in the...

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