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Qwizdom Inc Appoints New COO and Restructures Sales Operations

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Press Release. 20th April 2012 Qwizdom Inc, provider of learning technology solutions to over 10,000 schools has recently appointed a new Chief Operating Officer, Tom Houston, to oversee the company’s global expansion. As part of an overall restructuring, Qwizdom is expanding its head office in Washington State and moving some of its sales and operational functions from Ohio. Qwizdom is in the process of appointing a USA Sales Director to their Washington head office and is expanding operations in California and New York in order to launch new products into the education and corporate training markets. 2012 and 2013 will see the rollout of...

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Qwizdom at BETT 2012

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January was a busy month with BETT being the prominent focus.  As ever, the show was exciting, busy, exhausting (but worth it.) We had a sneak preview of our new virtual remotes (QVR) and a very sneak preview of the new Q6 Instructor remote due for release later in the year. It was great to see some old friends and meet a lot of new international visitors. For the current BETT Qwizdom offer please contact...

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Qwizdom End of Year Reflection

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2011 has been an interesting year for Qwizdom and education technology as a whole.  We have seen the very successful launch of our Q6 Student remote which allows for text based and mixed expression responses.  So far we have schools, colleges and businesses alike getting great feedback using the advanced options available with the Q6. We have also been honoured with a number of education technology awards for our new software products WizTeach (www.wizteach.com) and Qtopia (www.qtopia.com) from leading edtech magazine 'Tech&Learning.' Perhaps one of our most interesting news stories of 2011 came later in the year with...

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Technology at your fingertips at Knockloughrim Primary School

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Great to see one of our local Northern Ireland customers in the news.  Their Headteacher Mr Wysner is certainly a great champion of education technology and it is good to see the pupils are seeing the benefits of his investments.  To read the full article click...

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Staff Surveys: Honest Feedback with Qwizdom

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I recently facilitated an event for a large Food Service company who required a fast way of getting feedback for their annual staff survey.  Staff and student surveys are notoriously hard to get high response rates, especially if they are email or paper based surveys.  For this particular survey I ran 12 sessions back to back.  All staff were invited along at a particular time and were asked to take just 10 minutes out of their day.  A PowerPoint presentation was used which asked them questions regarding communication in the workplace, their management and working conditions.  They answered using their Qwizdom handsets. The...

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