Euan’s Blog

I was asked by the Scottish Further Education Unit to write an article for their magazine Broadcast about games and assessment in colleges.  Unfortunately as I wrote,  it turned into an article about what the education establishment could do to get good educational games…..
You can download the article here
 or read it here (without the cool images)
I am never quite sure how much of […]

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Its been a few months but we’ve got round to releasing lots of new products and software including InQuzitor for kids to use at home.   What I find tough to work out is how do I get the message out there that some of the best games designers in the world (part of the original Grand […]

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It’s a shame the BETT awards have made the headlines or all the wrong reasons.   
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm

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What is it about assessment that every piece of software remotely associated with learning needs to have some form of ‘assessment’ built in.  
Before building InQuizitor we spent a lot of time in secondary schools trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to train kids in some well intentioned but somewhat clunky software.  It was a vast piece of software which […]

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