 SPIDERS AND WHALES: A WINNNG COMBINATION!
Webs to Whales Nature Tales has won a 2007 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family from Learning® magazine. This is the only awards program that requires evaluators to be both a teacher and a parent. Each product is evaluated for educational value, originality and creativity, ease of use, and high-interest and motivation for children. Winning
products will be featured in the April issue of Learning® magazine.
True Blue Friend Wins 2007 Teachers' Choice Award from
Learning® Magazine!
 Block Publishing is pleased to announce that True Blue Friend was selected from over 400 products to receive a 2007 Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning® Magazine. Evaluators touted True Blue Friend for its “amazing photographs” and “wealth of concepts,” considering it a “great resource that could be used in a lot of ways.” The Teachers’ Choice Award, started in 1994, is the only awards program judged by teachers in the classroom. The program is committed to providing teachers with practical, hands-on tools to enhance their lessons.
Winners will be featured in the January 2007 issue of Learning®
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“I loved having the interactive CD. I am always looking for new ways to bring in technology into my classroom. This book had it all for me. It had the reading, the paper activities and the computer activities I needed to help me be a more successful teacher. It was very easy to use. My students kept asking if we could look at the whale CD again and again, even after we had looked at it for 3 days. I was very happy with their motivation to learn.”
Teachers’ Choice Award reviewer
“I would recommend this product to teachers in grades K to 4th. There are skills for all ages in the interactive CD. Students will enjoy this book no matter what age they are. The activities are so fun and entertaining for them that they don’t even realize they are learning.”
Teachers’ Choice Award reviewer
True Blue Friend: An iParenting Media Outstanding Product!
We are thrilled to announce that our True Blue Friend book with CD-ROM, the second
title in the Webs to Whales Nature TalesTM series, received a prestigious Outstanding
Product award from iParenting Media.com. this month.
“iParenting is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a leader in providing parents with
the best information. It is an honor and a responsibility to let them know which products resonated with our reviewers,” says Alvin All, Chief Executive Offi cer of iParenting Media. “We evaluated wonderful items in our Outstanding Products Call for Entry,
but only the ones that exceeded the high evaluation standards we set earned the iParenting Media Award.” To be considered for an award, each company submitted four identical samples of each
product, which were then precisely matched within iParenting’s database of hundreds
of experienced reviewers using iParenting’s state-of-the-art technology. An expert, a
group setting with mulitple users and a family reviewed the products and submitted a
thorough evaluation of each item. Results were compiled and submitted to the iParenting Media Executive Committee for fi nal approval. The end result of this comprehensive process is a list of award-winning products families can feel confi dent in purchasing for their loved ones. Comments from reviewers are shown below.
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What are the positive characteristics of this product?
The positive characteristics of this product are that it provides an opportunity for the
child to have the visual stimuli with the auditory capabilities to enhance the learning
experience. The story is also good in that it teaches a moral value to children about
listening. Having all this combined increases the child’s ability to learn. Also, the extras
included on the CD-rom are an asset.
- iParenting Media Awards’ Reviewer
As a teacher I really appreciated the well thought out objectives to the book and CD
program. These objectives are defi nitely met within the program. The CD really adds
to the book, bringing in so much more information through text, pictures, sound, video
and games.
- iParenting Media Awards’ Reviewer
“An educational and fun introduction to the topic.”
School Library Journal, September 2006
“This set would make a good, very basic introduction to a study on marine science. The story and software in this set seemed geared toward children ages 6-9… As a starting point, this set is a fun way to arouse curiosity and the PDF activities would be good supplements to your study.”
Dena Wood, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, September 2006
Full review of True Blue Friend in The Old
Schoolhouse magazine |
