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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 10:33:06 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 14:50:36 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 10:17:18 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 10:00:02 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 14:16:20 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 10:49:23 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 12:59:44 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

Portfolio: Ghostblasters iPhone App

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:37:19 GMT

Blast those ghosts and learn your tables with this great new App, adapted from the Primary Games classic.

Try and score 100 hits as fast as you can by tapping on ghosts which are a multiple of your chosen number. Be careful though, tapping an incorrect multiple will see your score reduced by 10 and it's Game Over when you reach -100.

Gooii took Interactive Resources's classic game and rebuilt it from the ground up for Apple iPhone. The app features entirely new graphics and has been coded in Objective C, Apple's approved programming language for iPhone and iPad Apps. Click here to download Ghostblasters from the Apple App Store. UPDATE: Ghostblasters is currently no.1 in the iTunes New and Noteworthy Education section.

Portfolio: Multiple Wipeout iPhone App

Wed, 25 May 2011 10:21:19 GMT

Have fun while learning your tables with this great new iPhone App from Interactive Resources and Primary Games.

Pop all the balloon multiples as fast as you can and if you're feeling confident try the Challenge mode, where the clock will tick while you complete all levels from 2 to 12.

The project was taken from the initial brief through to completion and submission to the Apple App Store. All design, illustration and coding in iOS App native Objective C was completed entirely in-house. Click here to download Multiple Wipeout from the Apple App Store. Update: Multiple Wipeout is currently number 2 in the iTunes 'New and Noteworthy' Education section.

Portfolio: Dragon-i Toys

Fri, 13 May 2011 09:11:41 GMT

Based in Hong Kong, Dragon-i Toys provides innovative products to major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Target and Kmart. Designed and programmed by Gooii, all content is added by the client using an easy-to-use management system, allowing Dragon-i to upload new products as well as embed videos and docuemtation to the site.

To view the website please visit: dragon-itoys.com
Please note, as the site is hosted in China it may run a little slower outside of this territory

Portfolio: Never Fade EP

Fri, 13 May 2011 08:38:37 GMT

Having photographed people like Colin Firth, Prince William, Cindy Crawford, Kevin Spacey, Jay-Z, Maddona, Kylie Minogue and the Queen, Rankin is considered one of world’s top photographers. Using Rankin photography, Gooii were commisioned to design Gabrielle Aplin’s ‘Never Fade EP’, producing a simple, yet striking design. Released on iTunes on Monday 9th May 2011, it is the follow up to Sept 2010 release of Gabrielle’s hugely successful Acoustic EP, also desiged by Gooii.

Since it’s release the ‘Never Fade EP’ has reached the Top 14 in the main album charts in the UK and Top 6 on the pop charts, as well as Top 50 in Australia and Top 100 in America. To buy the EP head on over to iTunes

Portfolio: The 'Find a Library' Mobile Website

Fri, 13 May 2011 08:19:18 GMT

Developed for the Collections Trust using Culture Grid, "Find a Library" is a website targeted at mobile browsers. This easy to use interface allows users to search for UK library locations and will display detailed information where available. Users can also help improve the data by visiting libraries and use their mobile phone to pinpoint the exact location and report updates about library details.

The UI for the project was developed in Google Web Toolkit and uses the SOLR Culture Grid Service, developed by Knowledge Integration, to power the search and location services. To view this exciting new mobile site please visit: fal.culturegrid.org.uk

Portfolio: Towards Maturity Benchmark Centre

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:21:24 GMT

The Towards Maturity Benchmark Centre was developed by the Red E Toolkit team, a partnership between Schemeta and Gooii.

Red E Toolkit is an easy to use online self-assessment tool and set of resources to support organisational planning, change and progression. The self-assessment toolkit can be based on an existing maturity model or the team can develop a readiness toolkit from scratch.

The readiness toolkit then provides a report that can help organisations understand where they are at the moment and provide them with links to help them progress towards their goal and deal with change.

Administrators can easily edit the content and can view information about usage and progress.

To view the site visit: mybenchmark.towardsmaturity.org

For more information contact info@redetoolkit.com or go to www.redetoolkit.com

Portfolio: James Barnes Music Website

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:48:16 GMT

James Barnes Music provides management and consultancy services for clients throughout the entertainment industry. Having worked with high profile acts including Natalie Imbruglia, Newton Faulkner, Florence and the Machine and Boyzone, JBM required a site that would keep visitors up-to-date with both JBM and industry news. The site includes a full content management system and was designed and programmed entirely in-house by Gooii. To view the site visit: jamesbarnesmusic.com

BETT Show 2011

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:30:42 GMT

The BETT show is the largest education technology exhibition in the world, offering visitors the opportunity to view and experience new technology including the latest software, hardware and design.

Featuring over 600 exhibitors including Microsoft, Adobe, Toshiba, Lego Education and RM, as well as Gooii clients E2BN, SEGFL and Primary Games who will be exhibiting our work. Previously Gooii have been nominated for 2 prestigious BETT awards and we look forward to another exciting event this year.

For more information visit: www.bettshow.com