The September issue of our customer newsletter, SANAKO FastForward Educational Digest is currently available for viewing.

This time around the digest features a thought-provoking lead article on the different learning styles displayed by adults and youngsters, contributed by French teacher Isabel Montes, who works in Spain.

We also share news of an innovative project, Project Blog!, set up by teachers in Singapore to help students improve their written English language skills and general knowledge by contributing regular blogs on different subjects.

Paul Redhead     of SANAKO UK explains to teachers that they should not be afraid of their students' vast kowledge of technology, and shares a simple routine to use the SANAKO Study platform to help engage tech-savvy learners.

Finally in this issue, we invite you to share your opinion in our online poll. Cast your vote and see the cumulative results right away - but remember, you're only allowed to vote once! Simply click here to browse the newsletter.

The student version of G-20 summit is to play out in the world's classrooms this week.  Using the technology that made the global economy to solve issues that world leader plan to discuss. With some 450 local Pittsburgh area students and hundreds more participating via the internet the student G-20 aims at providing students with a non-partisan perspective on global issues

With many schools breaking for summer vacations, now’s a good time to slow down and catch up on what’s happening in the learning sector. Our new customer publication SANAKO FastForward Educational Digest will help keep you abreast of the trends and developments affecting us all.

SANAKO FastForward Educational Digest is our latest newsletter available for download from our public websites, user community and partner websites.

The digest will ensure that our customers and potential collaborators are engaged in the ongoing discussion on trends and concepts affecting the learning sector.

The digest replaces the previous FastForward Learning publication and will in future include the Customer Development Series as a special segment providing end users with valuable usage pointers.

Click here to view SANAKO FastForward Educational Digest and participate in the online poll.

The Education Resources Awards highlight the quality and diversity of educational products and resources, excellent educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession and supplies industry, all working together to encourage the very best in education.

Now in their eleventh successful year, what makes ERA different from other Awards is that they focus on the resources, services and people that create a practical impact.

On Friday 27 March 2009 a gala event was held at The National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, the Awards were organised by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) and Affinity Media, and celebrate the innovative approach to learning and teaching by teachers, education institutions and organisations from all levels of education. All entries were selected by an independent panel of experienced educational professionals, including a large contingency of teachers.

SANAKO UK was nominated for Supplier of the Year Award and we are pleased to announce that we scooped runner-up! This prestigious award highlights the emphasis that SANAKO places on its customer focused approach and we would like to extend our gratitude to our customers who spoke so highly of SANAKO.

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With a social bookmarking system, you can now save links to your fave SANAKO web pages to remember and/or share with your Web 2.0 tools. Bookmark & Share your fave SANAKO homepage in selected local languages: Share, Weitersagen, Compartir, Partilhar.  Neat, isn't it?  

What is Social Bookmarking?
"Bookmarks are methods for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy or social tagging -- the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content." (Source: Wikipedia)

We hope you like it and we always welcome your feedback on how we can serve you better at SVEC!

• In this class, I pre-prepare a paragraph that I want students to focus on as a printed document and a pre-recorded spoken word mp3 file. 
• I then cut the printed version into different parts:  topic sentence, sequence markers, support sentences and examples.
• I give each student a piece of the paragraph to read.
• I then put all of the logged on numbers of the SANAKO lab 300 on the board and tell the students that they will need to ring these numbers to get the other parts of the sentence.
• I activiate the telephone mode in the Lab 300
• When students have finished collecting the individual parts of the paragraph, I transfer the recorded spoken paragraph.
• Students are then given time to listen again and sequence their paragraphs from their collected parts.
• Students are then put into pairs with the pair mode and have to compare their versions of the paragraph.
• I then group the students into one and we go through the paragraph as a class.
• This also works well with songs.

Introduction video now available from svec. Follow this link to see.

 
The Computer Lab is the ideal environment to do the World Language AP Exam for US-based students. When a student puts on a headset, each computer station equipped with the SANAKO Study 1200 software  is transformed into an individualized test station where audio is clear and understandable allowing the student to focus on the task at hand. Once the student have recorded their responses the exam proctor can easily collect them and write them to a CD as required by ETS.

Try it - you'll like it!

Sanako Study 1200 AP takes the guess work out of the AP exam process. Use your computer lab to prepare your students for the exams. Listen - Record - Collect - Write to CD in one easy activity with the highest fidelity digital audio available. Headset included!