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New website & Google Integration launched

I launched our new site https://familybookform.com at EduTech Singapore today and accepted 2 awards for ‘Best New EdTech Startup’ and the project at GIIS Singapore.

FamilyBookform projects scaffold students to collaborate with their family and community to collect oral histories & personal family stories & photos into printable digital books for education, communication and bonding.

Teachers create a FamilyBookform …

Minister of Education awards Bookform's Literacy Project

The Teachers’ Guild NSW hosted a World Teacher’s Day Awards Gala Dinner last night to acknowledge some exceptional NSW teachers, presented by the Minister of Education, Hon. Sarah Mitchell and Shadow Minister, Prue Car MP and Guest of Honour, Dr Dan White M.Ed (R.E.), Ed. D, Former Executive Director of Sydney Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Sydney.

Melissa Carson, …

Teacher's Experience with Bookform

Jenifer Dove - Leader of Learning: Literacy 7-12 at Sydney Catholic Schools, Eastern Region Secondary Team. After seeing the Bookform 'Family Book' Project at Champagnat Catholic College, Jennifer tried Bookform's online program for her own Mother's memoir project. See her feedback below.

Jennifer has invited me to present Bookform's projects to other Catholic School heads next week.

Memoirs & Musings by Jennifer Dove

This …

Featured in Griffith Uni news

From Griffith to Google partner

Griffith communications graduate, Carey Furze, has partnered with Google For Education to develop storycollecting and communication skills among students and their families, through her digital platform Bookform.

Carey founded the online platform Bookform when she was still studying, specifically because of one particular journalism unit that required her to interview someone in her community, and …

Digital Promise publish Bookform's Research

Digital Promise, a congressionally authorised independent Education Research Organisation, has published the Bookform and Athena’s Advanced Academy pilot project research today.

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Digital Promise works at the intersection of education leaders, researchers, and technology developers to improve learning opportunities for all and close the Digital Learning Gap. Because when all learners have equitable access to technology, when everyone participates, and when …

Google Classroom & Bookform Partner

Bookform will become a Google for Education partner and integrate into their Classroom platform and Chromebooks Apps Hub from mid August 2019.

This integration allows teachers to easily assign a Bookform project to a whole class or year group from within their school’s Classroom dashboard and access student’s books for feedback and comments and to grade.

Students will use their …

A US teacher's experience with Bookform

Athena’s Advanced Academy, an online education organization based in California, has students participating in Bookform’s Family Book project as a summer course. Athena’s will offer the project again in the fall, mid-October to mid-December https://bit.ly/Athenasbookform.

Athena’s Advanced Academy is an online, student-centered learning environment, delivering academic live webinar classes for gifted and talented, including 2e and homeschool, students. …

Grade 7 English: Life Writing

Champagnat Catholic High School at Pagewood, Sydney had Year 7 students start using Bookform technology today for their English ‘Life Writing’ unit.

Director of teaching and learning at Champagnat School, Melissa Carson, said “About 50% of the Year 7 students have been identified as being below average for their level in literacy and we want to address this issue early …

Bookform at EduTech Syd 2019

Bookform exhibited & presented at EduTech Sydney 6&7 June 2019. This was my pitch: https://youtu.be/ZSf5v1KFHoI

I’m Carey Furze the founder of Bookform. Bookform’s purpose is to facilitate personal connections through Communication projects at schools.

An immediate problem is Educators need for time efficient, cost effective, curriculum aligned, personalised education resources.

And the long term problems are everyone’s mental health, 21st century …