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Bookform starts pilot in SF USA

Bookform will partner with Athena’s Advanced Academy to pilot the ‘Family Book’ project in their online summer course program.

Athena’s Advanced Academy is an online learning environment, delivering project-based and interactive live webinar classes for gifted, talented and home-school students.

Athena’s Advanced Academy was created by Dr. Kirsten L. Stein, Ed.D. who has been involved in the field of education …

Gonski – What School Could Be

The Gonski Institute for Education hosted Ted Dintersmith, a US Education researcher & academic to discuss his recent book ‘What School Could Be’ and film ‘Most Likely To Succeed’ with a panel of education experts, Professor Pasi Sahlberg, Stephanie McConnell and Peter Hutton at UNSW last night.

Ted Dintersmith’s book ‘What School Could Be’ is a culmination of one year travelling …

Upgraded Bookform software launched

Bookform is an online tool to guide students to interview their family members or people in the community as communication & relationship building projects. Students collect stories, using voice-to-text AI & collaboration (any language) & photos, to create personalised memoirs or Family Books. 

After 2 years, over 1000 customers in 31 countries, and pilot projects in schools & aged care, …

HundrED interviews Bookform for global 100 EdTech

HundrED is a Finland and UK based not-for-profit online platform to discover, research and share impactful and scalable K12 innovations with the world, for free.

Each year HundrED selects the top 100 inspiring innovations globally and highlights them to the world.

Frederika Warren, a researcher for HundrED, interviewed me yesterday, to explore Bookform’s technology, impact and purpose, and the …

Intro Bookform to AWS Community

Bookform Pitch Deck 2018

Problem:

There are some big wicked problems in the world today. 

We’re living in a new world of hyper-connectivity, but people seem to be feeling more disconnected than ever before. Especially the young and the old.

Solution:

Bookform’s solution is technology to scaffold bringing families and communities together, bonding over sharing personal stories as a school …

GIIS Singapore starts Bookform

The Global Indian International School (GIIS) Singapore has partnered with Sydney based EduTech Company Bookform to pilot new story-collation software for students to create personalised Family Recipe books.

GIIS has 19 campuses across 7 countries, including Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, UAE and India, and growing.

The Bookform world-first software scaffolds students to collect stories and photos into printable digital books, …

Amazon EdStart backs Bookform

The AWS EdStart accelerator, designed to help EduTech startups develop the next generation of online learning to be secure, smart and scalable, accepted Bookform into their program last Friday 9 November 2018.

The Bookform technology scaffolds students to collect family and community life stories (any language & photos) into printable digital books using template questions, voice-to-text AI and collaboration, …

Young & Old Feel Valuable and Engaged

While some Arcare residents were too emotional to speak, most couldn’t stop smiling and saying that they never expected the ‘Write of Passage’ project to have such a positive effect on them.

Even Arcare Community Engagement Manager, Rachel Aqualina said, “This project far exceeded all of our expectations. We knew that the residents would enjoy the socialisation, but the friendships …

World Teacher’s Day awards King’s & Tangara for Bookform pilots

The King’s School and Tangara Girls School teachers were recognised by the Minister for Education at a World Teachers’ Day ceremony on Friday 26 October.

The Teachers’ Guild of New South Wales hosted the 2018 World Teachers’ Day celebration to present awards for outstanding professional contributions to education made by a select group of teachers.

The Teachers’ Guild NSW President, Dr …