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Thought Park
Thought Park is a virtual environment that utilises the very best in social networking technologies and brings them together into an online tool for collaborative learning.
Thought Park is about sharing, collaboration, learning and simplicity.
Your students will love the interface and your staff will love the ability to manage courses and activities.
Clients using Thought Park include:
- New Diploma consortiums in Essex
- Primary Schools
- Secondary Schools
- Colleges
- Pupil Referal Units
- The RUGRoom at City College Norwich
- Project Search Norwich (learners in real world work placements)
It is especially useful for schools and organisations who want a user friendly, simple but powerful tool for connecting learners across different organisations. It is ideal for the 14-19 diplomas where students from different schools can work together, and for schools who want an exceptional VLE for their students.
Whether or not you work with one class, lots of classes or lots of schools, Thought Park offers more than your average platform!
Thought Park has a range of tools that staff and students can use to build highly engaging approaches to learning.
Setting up groups, managing conversations, setting and completing tasks and assignments and tracking progress and achievement are all built in as standard.
Staff can see everything that has happened in the system using the powerful logging feature. Going that step further, users benefit from the ability to work privately or share their ideas with others, or even publish their work to a web page for anyone to see. All of this is easily controlled from within the system, by the users.
Holding private conversations with one or many people is easy, and creating learning spaces and social groups is equally simple for users to manage.
Thought Park allows you to establish the membership of the site very simply and without needing to link to any single MIS. However, if you want to integrate Thought Park with other systems, you can.
The Thought Park environment has been tested with users from 6 to 80 and provides an engaging and easy to use interface, with tools that learners are familiar with and use easily.
Whether you want to introduce e-safety, online portfolios and showcases, collaborative learning or just leverage the power of social networking in a safe and managed way, Thought Park gives you the tools you need to provide safe and secure online activities, formative and summative assessment of learning and an entirely engaging user experience.
If you've ever wondered why your learning platform is not being used, contact us to find out how Thought Park can change the way your school manages online learning.
For more information please contact us on 0845 868 9020, we're very friendly.