School Products - Educational Software

Aimed at visual learners and children with a range of learning difficulties, such as Down's syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders, A Busy Day prioritises individual learning requirements with step-by-step guidance towards what, for some, may be their first experience of success in literacy.
Offering a comprehensive choice of accessibility options, A Busy Day enables teachers to use the resource to support children with a range of learning difficulties.

Dataworks Australia is very excited to announce that as of August 1st, 2008, it will be the exclusive publisher and distributor of Kahootz 3 in Australia and New Zealand.

Effective immediately, Dataworks will commence distributing Kahootz 3 through its extensive network of education resellers. In the coming months, a home version of Kahootz 3 will also be available through major retailers in Australia and New Zealand.

Kahootz 3 is an educational software application that allows students aged 7-15 to create their own 3D content. Kahootz was specifically created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation for primary and secondary students as a multi-media construction tool-set. Children are able to create complex narratives, puzzles and presentations in a three dimensional world. The new Kahootz 3 has even more features such as Kahootz soundtracks, new 3D objects and worlds, new special effects, game making actions, integrated movie exporting, animated giffs and a new interface. Students can even import their own face onto a Kahootz character!

With Kahootz 3, students can use blue-screen technologies to create videos of themselves in a Kahootz 3D world. With much more cultural diversity of the Kahootz 3D library of objects, Kahootz 3 is also ideal for LOTE and SOSE teachers.
Kahootz 3 can be used across the curriculum to enhance and improve learning outcomes for all students. With a far greater level of interactivity than the previous version, Kahootz 3 is suitable for use in Maths, Science and ICT classes as well as LOTE classes where students can import various language sound files. Addition of a greater range of historical objects will allow students to recreate more History related scenarios. A greater range of food and health related objects will also allow students to create various Health and SOSE related scenarios.

"Dataworks is very proud to be the publisher and distributor of Kahootz 3 and is delighted to be working with the Australian Children's Television Foundation" said Andrew Lock, Managing Director of Dataworks. "Kahootz 3 is an outstanding creative and educational multi-media tool for students. As a wholesaler, we are very well-positioned to maximize sales of Kahootz 3 through both education and retail channels."
Jenny Buckland, CEO of the ACTF commented "The ACTF is delighted to be joining forces with Dataworks. The enthusiasm and publishing and distribution expertise of the team at Dataworks will ensure that Kahootz now reaches the widest possible group of users. Children all over Australia and New Zealand will be able to show off their creativity using the Kahootz 3 tools."

The NEW Edmark House Series combines all the favorite activities found in previous versions with even more engaging content and NEW reporting and management tools to target each student's individual learning goals. Designed by early learning and special needs experts, Edmark House Series combines proven instructional design with a rich, multi-sensory learning environment to support each student's learning style, guiding them to success.

MyBoard will revolutionize the way teachers use their Interactive Whiteboards. Designed to encourage teachers to use their boards interactively, the program is a class management tool that is engaging and fun for students whilst providing useful and important information for teachers. Once teachers start using MyBoard they will wonder how they ever managed a classroom without it!

Dataworks is very proud to announce that it will be the exclusive publisher and distributor of the "encourage and praise" range of products on behalf of The Victoria Charts Company in Australia and New Zealand.

The company produces a range of positive reward charts that help parents encourage good behaviour and deal with every day issues such as toilet training, behaviour management and good eating habits. They are particularly useful for parents who have children with special needs.
"Over the last three years, we have been amazed by the number of mothers of special needs children who have found great support using my charts within their home." said Victoria Ballard from The Victoria Charts Company.

All of the charts are of a simple, brightly coloured, user-friendly design that are eye-catching and totally re-usable. Most importantly, families have the ability to tailor them to their particular issues; ensuring families are getting the results they need.

"These charts will sit very nicely with our range of products for the retail and education market," said Sean Sweetser, Business Development Manager. "We will be releasing "My Big Star Chart" initially which is ideal for toddlers and then extending the range in the coming months to include charts aimed at older children."

Dataworks Australia now distributes Corel's Academic software solutions including education, single-user, multi-user and site licence editions.
"We are very pleased to align ourselves with Corel in Australia and New Zealand," said Andrew Lock, Managing Director of Dataworks Australia. "Our Education Resellers are excited that we are expanding our range to include Corel products. Corel is recognized worldwide for developing exceptional software solutions and we look forward to working closely with Corel to deliver innovative programs that will expand Corel’s customer reach in education."

Dataworks Australia is pleased to announce that it is now the exclusive publisher and distributor for UK based educational software company Shoo Fly Connected Learning Resources.

"If you are searching for truly interactive, cross-curricular resources, then look no further than these beautifully packaged, highly engaging and wholly original teaching materials by Shoo Fly. Everything about these oozes quality; each animated book begins with a carefully scored piece of music, which creates an immediate impact and hooks all pupils, even before the first line appears on screen."

Primary Choice Magazine, Summer 2007

Dataworks is very proud to be distributing these products in Australia and New Zealand.

Another exciting new release from Dataworks is a product called NewsMaker from Eye Power Games.
With NewsMaker, students take on the role of news anchor and news producer, creating their own story in 3 easy steps. NewsMaker provides students a fun platform to practise writing, speaking and presentation skills.

The brand new RM e-Pad is a portable wireless tablet designed specifically for schools. It gives teachers the freedom to teach and engage your students from anywhere in the classroom. Create and deliver engaging lessons with all the interactivity of a whiteboard from the palm of your hand. The RM ePad includes RM Easiteach Next Generation, the award-winning dynamic software tool for engaging and stimulating whole-class teaching.

Dataworks is continually looking for new opportunitities!

This exciting new resource has recently been reviewed by two Australian Education experts, Lee Burton and Robyn Treyvaud, who both agree that "Angel Boy is a unique resource that will provide schools with stories in multi modal form to engage learners with poor literacy skills to highly creative students."
The stories deal with sensitive issues such as bullying and acceptance and cover a large range of genres and themes. All four stories would be excellent for Australian teachers in the areas of English, Media Studies, ICT, Values Education and Visual Art.

We invite you to follow the link below to experience some of the richness of this creative new resource.

Follow this link - Angel Boy