The editors of The ComputED Gazette have selected E-Blocks from among many entries submitted by software publishers worldwide as one of the 11th Annual Education Software Review Awards (EDDIES) winners.

E-Blocks was selected as the Best Software in Early Elementary: EFL category.

The ComputED Gazette is committed to bringing to the public’s attention the very best in educational software and websites. ComputED´s Directors have appeared on news segments of the ABC- and CBS-TV affiliates in San Diego, and are educators who provide computer education to children and adults in the San Diego area.

Winning entries are made available to educators and parents through the San Diego Center for Educational Technology’s Educational Software Preview Service, a nonprofit organization which offers software previewing. Clients are directed to software publishers for purchasing options.

The criteria used for the awards include ease of installation and use, curriculum inclusion (coverage of a given subject), content quality, professionalism, and design. The Awards´ list of winners of the 2006 EDDIES Awards are posted at ComputED´s website: http://computedgazette.com/page3.html

We from the E-Blocks staff are very proud and would like to share this great moment once again with all our partners who helped us raise the bar and deliver such a great solution.

We are delighted to inform that E-Blocks is making history again, winning two more international awards.

The winners of the Golden Lamp Awards and Distinguished Achievement Awards (http://www.edpress.org/awards/winners.htm), promoted by the AEP - Association of Educational Publishers, were announced at the 2006 Annual Awards Banquet & Gala, held Friday, June 9 (during the AEP Summit) at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.

AEP - Association of Educational Publishers - is the most important non-profit organization in the US who provides information, training, and outreach necessary to the development of quality educational materials. AEP facilitates communication among key interest groups such as educators, policy makers, educational foundations and associations, business and the education media. With more than 100 years, the organization is supported by nearly 400 print and digital publishers of all sizes and in all media.

E-Blocks has won the Golden Lamp Awards within the Technology category (http://www.edpress.org/awards/lampwin.htm) and the Distinguished Achievement Awards within Instructional Materials - Learning Appliances for Children category
(http://www.edpress.org/awards/instmatwin.htm).

E-Blocks made another giant step for recognition as a definitive tool for English learning for beginners.

We from the E-Blocks staff are very proud and would like to share this great moment with all our partners who helped us to raise the bar and deliver such a great solution.

E-Blocks won one more International prize. This time it was the BESSIE Awards, 12th ANNUAL BEST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AWARDS, promoted by The ComputED Gazette of San Diego/CA/USA, within the category Early Elementary/EFL.

For more information visit http://computedgazette.com/page3.html

Positivo Informática system is one of the world’s top five e-Learning solutions in the World Summit Awards

Curitiba, September 13th 2005 – E-Blocks, a technological solution to the classroom created by the Positivo Informática’s team to teach English to young learners (4 – 10 years old), is one of the top 5 e-Learning projects of the world according to the World Summit Awards (WSA) organization. The results came out yesterday during the WSA Grand Jury meeting, that started on September 3rd and ended on 10th, in Bahrain, in the east coast of Saudi Arabia.

Created in 2003, the World Summit Awards (WSA) is a global contest that identifies and promotes projects from all over the world that make use of information technology and communication in the development of innovative content and multimedia application, emphasizing on the reduction of digital exclusion?. Representing 168 different countries from all continents, the WSA starts from the premise that only the access to a computer and to an Internet connection is not enough, and that the content of the products plays an essential part to the success of the projects. Therefore, other than just recognizing the technological production, the WSA contemplates the perfect blending between the content and the product, and that is exactly what characterizes the E-Blocks system and differs it from any other solution available in the English learning market.

This year, more than a thousand digital projects, from 168 countries, competed in the following categories: e-Learning, e-Culture, e-Science, e-Government, e-Health, e-Business, e-Entertainment e e-Inclusion. Along with E-Blocks, only 39 other projects were contemplated and will be presented in the World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunis – Tunisia, from November 16-18 of 2005.