World Book Day!

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a  book.” 

^{- Groucho Marx}

 ^{We're gearing ourselves up for World Book Day and you should too! Designed by UNESCO, this year's worldwide celebration of books and reading will take place on Thursday 3rd March (not long we know) and it encourages children and adults around the world to explore books and reading.}

<sup>As well as reading, there's other fun things and games children can participate in and we've created a World Book Day community so if you'd like it for your DB Primary learning platform then please get in touch. Children can also receive tokens that are redeemable against books specially published for the event.

If you want to read more information about World Book Day then please click here

We're busy thinking about our favourite childhood books that we can recommend...How are you going to encourage reading where you are?</sup>

A newer and more improved DB Primary!

That's right, DB Primary has had a spring clean! Following yesterday's release there's been a few improvements made to DB Primary, such as:

• Adding a blog to a community
• Easier navigation through user accounts
• The ability to customise your links to the user navigation panel
• Ability to access chat logs
• Quick links to content providers from communities
• Embed video or audio located in the gallery to forum posts and community pages
• Teachers can now arrange icons on their homepage
• Improved organisation of bulk uploads to the gallery

Here's a community blog example for the Celts and Romans community:

Please let us know how you get on and if you have any other feedback about how DB Primary can be improved - comments welcome!

World Maths Day!

Surely we all want to be better mathematicians?

Well, guess what everyone, World Maths Day takes place on 1st March 2011!

Entry is free and it means that pupils can play at home and school, against other students around the world, at mental arithmetic.  There's great prizes so DB Primary wants to encourage all school's to get involved!

Check out the World Maths Day website here.

If you have a learning platform in school, or use DB Primary, why not create a Maths Day community? Include games, quizzes and anything else to make learning about maths fun!

Look out for tomorrow's installment to include more useful information about learning....

Welcome to DB Primary's blog!

Education and learning that's engaging. How? With our learning platform! 

Yes, welcome to DB Primary's world of learning, one that is bright, colourful, user friendly and safe. DB Primary has been designed specifically for primary school pupils so that they can be a part of the e-generation that is our current 21st Century.

We hear you asking: How have they done this? Aren't pupils too young for this? Well, after asking ourselves these same questions we have developed a virtual learning environment that 1000s of pupils are using in and out of school right now, in various countries. The following features incorporate educational material that pupils can learn, collaborate and communicate about...

• Email
• Blog
• Quizzes and surveys
• e-portfolio
• Forum
• Communities
• Tasks

If you want to learn more about DB Primary, just check out our website: www.dbprimary.com.  We'll be talking about e-safety, how to make the best of a learning platform, new features and so on in forthcoming blogs so keep following to find out more about online learning and how to make the best of it!