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Imperial War Musuem iPhone and Android Apps Featured In The Guardian

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:04:07 GMT

The iPhone and Android apps Gooii are developing for the Imperial War Museum’s Social Interpretation project, have been featured in The Guardian. To read the full article visit: The Guardian Culture Professionals Blog

IWM 'Social Interpretation' iPhone and Android App Announcement

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:12:36 GMT

We are proud to announce Gooii are developing an exciting new iPhone and Android app, for the Imperial War Museum’s ‘Social Interpretation’ project.

The app, programmed natively for each device, starts with a QR code scanned from within the museum space. Once an object is scanned, information about that artifact is loaded into the handset, which the visitor can then comment on, collect and share via the IWM website, Twitter and Facebook.

For a more technical run down on the development process so far, please visit the IWM blog.

Tweeting from the Birdbox....

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:36:14 GMT

Surely the most obvious match since chicken and chips, the SEGfL Birdbox project is now on Twitter! School Birdbox updates will automatically be published to Twitter, live throughout the nesting season. Click here to follow the feed now and catch up with all the lastest from this great project, or visit the Birdbox website at birdbox.segfl.org.uk

Portfolio: Connecting Dance Website

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:20:37 GMT

Connecting Dance is an innovative new website that aims to unite the dance world and make it easier for everyone interested in dance to find out about dance schools, dance groups and dancers.

Using the existing Connecting Dance corporate identity, the site was designed and programmed entirely in-house and features an events calendar, integrated Facebook app, news system, advertising facility and a powerful search interface. The website also features dual language content, allowing users to search, view and add content in both English and Swedish. To view the site please visit www.connectingdance.com

Portfolio: Superman Homepage iPhone App

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:49:30 GMT

Since 1994, The SUPERMAN HOMEPAGE has been the first website that fans of the Man of Steel have looked toward when it comes to exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes reports, previews, reviews, and just about anything you'd ever need to know about the world's first and greatest superhero. The Superman Homepage is the number one ranked superman fan site in the world and is now available as a fantastic iPhone and iPod Touch app.

Designed and programmed entirely in-house for the Apple iPhone, the app features dynamically loaded news pulled direct from the main website, as well YouTube videos, audio podcasts and the ability to share items to Twitter and Facebook.

To download the app from iTunes or the Apple App Store please click here. UPDATE: The Superman Homepage App is currently being featured by Apple in the iTunes News 'What's Hot' section.

SUPERMAN and all related elements are the property of DC Comics TM @2012

Portfolio: Royal Museums Greenwich 'Collections Online' Website and Touch Screen Pods

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:43:31 GMT

The Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is the largest institution of its kind in the world, with over 2,000,000 items related to seafaring, navigation and astronomy in its care. We are committed to improving public access to these collections and the expansion of online access forms a key part in this policy. Gooii were commisioned to produced a custom website and content management system, with Google Web Toolkit Widgets. Gooii also programmed the interactive touch screen pods, that can be found in the 'Sammy Ofer' wing at the Greenwich Museum. To view the site visit: collections.rmg.co.uk
Click here to view a video on how to use the touch screen pods.

Portfolio: British Heart Foundation Whiteboard Activities

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:37:53 GMT

The British Heart Foundation are the nation's heart charity. Their vision is a world where people don't die prematurely from heart disease, with an aim to achieving this through pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensuring quality care and support for everyone living with heart disease.

Gooii were commisioned to produce a series of interactive whiteboard activites. Produced in Flash, the activites were developed for use in schools to promote awareness of healthy eating and looking after your heart. To view the BHF ‘Body Parts’ activity please click here.

Portfolio: History's Heroes Website

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:39:22 GMT

This is a site about heroes but you won't find Batman or the Incredible Hulk here, you'll find people who really did exist and made their mark on history.

Built using a bespoke content management system, all programming, design and illustration was produced entirely in-house. The website, aimed at 11-14 year olds, features information, quizes, a 'Speech Maker' application and Flash activities. The site also includes an interactive voting system, allowing visitors to decide if the historical figures featured really were heroes or not. To view the site visit: historysheroes.e2bn.org

Portfolio: Climate Action Tracker Website

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:58 GMT

Gooii are proud to have developed and launched the 'Climate Action Tracker' website, to coincide with the 'UN Climate Change Conference' being held in Durban during November/December 2011.

The site is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of UN countries. Providing up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges, the website is designed to help users reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To view the website please visit: climateactiontracker.org

Fab-Phonics iPad App Review from A4CWSN Australia

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 GMT

'Apps for Children with Special Needs', or 'A4CWSN' as they are often better known, are a community committed to providing parents and educators with more information about Apps for the iPad and other such devices, that can benefit children with special needs in the home and school environment. Veronika Walshe is an administrator for the A4CWSN Australia Facebook page and here’s what she had to say about The ‘Fab-Phonics’ series of apps:

“Up, Up and Away is a wonderful app, I use it daily. This is the first one I brought and I brought the others soon after. My child just loves it, and there is a bit of humour in it as well - which always gets a laugh. This is just a great app. If your child is learning CVC words, really consider buying this and the others in the series.

...Please keep up the great work with these apps, they are really making a difference to our children's lives.”

Many thanks to Veronika for her kind words. Please click here view the A4CWSN Australia Facebook page or to download the Fab-Phonics Apps please visit the iTunes store.

BETT Award Website Finalist 2012

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:58:51 GMT

We are very proud to annouce that the National Education Network & E2BN's 'Gallery' website has been short listed for a 2012 BETT Award. The site, designed and programmed by Gooii Nottingham, has been selected in the 'Digital Collections and Resource Banks' category, with the winners to be announced January 2012. To view the site visit: gallery.nen.gov.uk

Portfolio: The Fab-Phonics 'Up, Up and Away', 'Where's Whatsit' and 'Space Blasters' Apps for iPhone and iPad

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:48:40 GMT

The Fab-Phonics iPhone and iPad apps are going from strength to strength, with 3 more exciting releases. The new apps see our team of superheroes flying, changing into different objects and venturing into outer space. Designed to help teach young children to read by building fluency in reading and spelling simple three-letter, consonant-vowel-consonant words, the Fab-Phonics apps are proving a big hit with children, parents and teachers alike. To download the apps please visit the following links: 'Up, Up and Away' for iPhone and iPad
'Where's Whatsit' for iPhone and iPad
'Space Blasters' for iPhone and iPad More apps coming soon!

Portfolio: Search The Hidden Collections Website

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:37:30 GMT

Scottish universities hold a high proportion of Scotland’s nationally important collections – more than 1.8 million items. The Revealing the Hidden Collections website gives information about all the material through almost 2000 detailed descriptions of collections and an increasing number of records of individual items and collections, making available all records through a single search maintained by the Culture Grid. The website was designed and programmed by Gooii Nottingham and can be viewed at: umissearch.org.uk

Animation Award Winners

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:33:06 GMT

Gooii collaborators Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis have just won the awards for 'Best of British' and the 'Audience Award for Best Film' at this year's highly respected 'Canterbury Anifest'. This is great news for the director/animators and we are very excited to be working with them on an exciting short film for a new high profile client. Congratulations to Tim and Wes. Click here to view the Canterbury Anifest website or here to view the excellent and award winning 'Drawing Inspiration'.

Fab-Phonics Review By Fun Educational Apps

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:50:36 GMT

The highly respected website 'Fun Educational Apps' has just reviewed the first three games in the Fab-Phonics series. Highly rating the apps, they describe them as "engaging and easy to use fun learning..." saying they are "cute, simple and effective learning... the kids loved it and we are sure yours will do too".

To read the full review and also be in with a chance of winning the apps, for either your iPhone or iPad, please visit: http://www.funeducationalapps.com

Portfolio: Fab-Phonics 'Road Block' App for iPhone and iPad

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:17:18 GMT

"Oh no, the road is blocked! Can you help Babybot to clear the road, tap on the missing letter to complete the words. The pictures and sounds will help you." Containing over 75 words, with colourful illustrations and sounds, The Fab-Phonics 'Road Block' is designed to aid the development of young readers. This innovative and fun app focuses on building fluency in reading and spelling CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words. The app can also be used to help teach English as a foreign language, or as a tool for adults learning to read. The Fab-Phonics 'Road Block' is available now and is free for both the iPhone and iPad. UPDATE: 'Road Block' is now the no.1 featured app in Apple Education's 'New and Noteworthy' section, for both the iPhone and iPad. The app was also downloaded over 1000 times in the first day of sale, a great start for this new series.

Portfolio: NEN Gallery Upgraded

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:00:02 GMT

Gooii have upgraded the NEN Gallery for E2BN. The new version has a wider format but retains the much loved look and feel. Underneath the hood we have re-engineered the whole thing to make it faster and more expandable. It also has some great new features including a JSON API for external developers to use and a customisable widget which can be used to embed the gallery in external sites.

An expanded 'My albums' for logged in users has made it even easier to upload images, tag and organise them. With 20,000 high quality images free for educational use, the NEN Gallery is a great free resource containing features that can be re-used and integrated into other resources worldwide. To view the NEN Gallery visit: gallery.nen.gov.uk

Portfolio: 'Eggs On Legs' iPhone and iPad Apps

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:16:20 GMT

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills are all put to the test as you try to crack eggs hiding a digit. Four great Primary Games combined into one cracking App. Make sure you shell out for this eggcellent game, or the yolk will be on you.

The Eggs on Legs app has been built in-house for iPhone and iPad and includes HD graphics with iPhone 4 Retina support.

Click here to download 'Eggs on Legs' from the Apple App Store

Portfolio: Respect Not Fear Website Design

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:49:23 GMT

Everybody deserves to have a healthy relationship with love, trust, good communication, shared interests, privacy, fun, laughter, loyalty, compliments, compromise and equality. This website looks at the healthy and non-healthy aspects of relationships, safety issues and provides support.

Gooii were commissioned to design and program the site for the Nottingham based NDVF, which included a bespoke Content Management System and Flash games and was produced in consultation with young people in Nottinghamshire.

To view the site visit: respectnotfear.co.uk

Portfolio: Collections Connect

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:59:44 GMT

Collections Connect is a fast software solution, which extracts records and media from an institution’s existing systems, such as Collections Management Systems (CMS), Digital Asset Management Systems (DAM) or even spreadsheets and presents them in a web ready form for publishing online. As Collections Connect is separate to the CMS you can use it to augment or change metadata before it is shown to web users, without changing the original curatorial records in the CMS.

Developed in association with Knowledge Integration Ltd (k-int), Gooii designed and built the product's user interface as well as the Collections Connect website. Visit the Collections Connect website