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What's New in IM Communities?
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ONE MILLION
Over one million members have so far registered for IM Communities SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe, so all children can find friends around the world with whom they can learn and share their interests. SCP and GSC inspire children to learn at school and at home and bring social networking to the heart of children’s learning - SAFELY.
SCP HOME
Parents can now register SCP children from home. GSC Home coming soon
NEW UK SCHOOLS PRICE
New fixed price of £4.50 per child + VAT for all UK schools.
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NEW PROJECTS
- NSPCC ideas! - campaign from ChildLine
- Adventure Club - follow extreme explorers day by day
- I am a Writer - first SCP/GSC book of children's stories - coming soon
- Virtual Literacy Festival - meet famous children's authors in Hot Seat forums for a week in September 09
NEW SOCIAL TOOLS
- Profiles - now children can learn to manage a profile page in preparation for safe use of other social networks.
- Blogging - members can compile text and visual blogs.
NEW DISCUSSION TOOLS
- Sticky Storms - Brilliant new brainstorming tool for your school forums and whiteboard activities.
- Diamond Ranking - Children sort ideas in a visual hierarchy around issues.
OPEN UP TO THE WORLD
- Public Pages - Make selected school pages public. Show children’s work to parents, governors and community. Create a complete school website.
- LinkUP Forums - Ideal for international collaboration with cluster and partner schools.
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Author Hot Seat Forums
"What a fantastic service the Hot Seat does, linking writers and readers and allowing kids to ask the questions they've always longed to be able to ask. I wish the Hot Seat had been around when I was a child and dreaming of becoming a writer! It was great to be able to meet so many fans who live so far far away from me."
- Kate Forsyth, Best Selling Australian Children's Author
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200,000 Kids Cross the Greenland Ice Cap
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Niall McCann and Murray Smith of Team Epic (Patron Sir Ranulph Fiennes are good friends of SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe, so were happy to take about 200,000 children with them on their epic 25-day crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap.
They journeyed on foot, unsupported - just the two of them, hauling 90kg sleds 335 miles from Tasiilaq on the East coast to Kangerlussuaq on the West coast. While on the ice they risked coming face to face with polar bears, they spent whole days skiing in whiteout conditions, gale force winds and temperatures as low as -25°C plus wind-chill. Their ski bindings broke. They suffered blisters, sunburn, snowblindness, and frostbite in some awkward places. Murray even met one of Santa's Elves.
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Niall McCann (left) and Murray Smith (right)
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Niall and Murray shared all of this risk, all the effort and sometimes the excruciating pain with the children of SCP and GSC who kept with them every step of the way through their blog in the Adventure Club and their courageous efforts inspired over 100 children to write accounts of their own real life adventures
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Children's own adventures
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Happy & Safe
Research into UK Children’s Happiness & Safety
“Dear Prime Minister,
Our country seems to be changing in many ways, however the children, the future of Britain have ideas which could reduce poverty, pollution and racism in the UK. If the Adults listened to the children would our country speak out with the future on it's lips or just follow it's fate?”
So writes Ellis, a 12 year old girl, one of 6000 members of SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe, who took part in the latest research on what makes children feel happy and safe in the real world and online. They tell the UK Prime Minister and the government how their lives could be improved.
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The Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke MP listens to two of the 6000 children who took part in the research.
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Intuitive Media creates Safe Social Learning Networks for children and young people: SuperClubsPLUS for primary children, GoldStarCafe for secondary and SchoolNetGlobal the biggest children's contributory website on the planet. See how take2theweb can help you build a school website to engage your whole community.
OFSTED Inspector Praises SCP
"One of the OFSTED Inspectors said that our children were the most knowledgeable group she had spoken to about internet safety. Now that is down to SuperClubsPLUS and how we have embedded that in school so thank you! Also the fact that the children can email children in other countries now got a mention in our community cohesion section.
As a school we will do what we can to sing your praises from the hill tops! I think it is a wonderful testament to you all at SCP that a system that is so embedded into our KS2 at Lancaster Lane is having such a positive impact on our children and that this has been recognized by Ofsted." - Joanne Geldard. Lancaster Lane Primary School, Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire
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Social Learning in Your School - free guides to download
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IM Research & Community Services
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Intuitive Media has provided community for over 1,000,000 authentic children and we find they love to tell us what they think. So we research into how they feel about life, their wants and needs and how they learn. We invite them to do Research Surveys, to Test Bed new online resources and to engage with issues in their Learning Channels.
"IM gave RSPCA a totally unique way to test our new Animals and Us online resource. The children gave us valuable insight into how they would use the resource and what to consider when developing this type of project. IM's excellent report opened the eyes of our senior management to the value of engaging young people." - Dave Allen, Head of Education, Information and Advice, RSPCA
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Research Presentations - free to download
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Anytime Learning - free guides to download
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Anytime Learning - Video Stories
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