Crick Software Ltd

Crick Software, based in Northampton, UK, and Seattle, Washington, is solely focused on producing innovative educational software. The company concentrates particularly on software tools for literacy.

Crick Software promotes the inclusion of children of all abilities by creating flexible products that can be tailored by teachers to the needs of individuals. Most products have the option of switch access, for users with a disability who are unable to use a mouse or keyboard.

John Crick, previously a teacher, started the company in 1993 and since then it has expanded rapidly. Skilled technical staff program and develop Crick’s products, supported by a dedicated sales and support team and in-house graphic design. A curriculum team of qualified teachers produce curriculum-related content.

The Company’s best-known product is Clicker, a supportive writing and multimedia tool. Clicker has won six BETT awards, is a Millennium Product, and is consistently one of the top-selling educational software titles in the UK. Clicker is also widely used in the United States and Australia, and is translated into three European languages.

Ready-made sets of learning resources to support Crick’s products can be downloaded free from www.LearningGrids.com. In addition to materials created in-house, the site also offers teachers the opportunity to share materials they have created for their own classrooms.

The latest exciting releases from the company include the fantastic Clicker Paint and Clicker Phonics.

Clicker Paint is an exciting new program that fully integrates with Clicker 5 and works as a powerful stand-alone program as well. Far from being just another paint program, Clicker Paint has been designed as an educational tool, incorporating unique and innovative features that add new dimensions to classroom creativity.

Clicker Phonics is a new series of 6 CDs using the proven technology of Clicker 5 to develop speaking and listening skills and phonological awareness. Having built this foundation, it then presents a programme of systematic synthetic phonics.
Designed to be used alongside any phonics scheme, including ‘Jolly Phonics’,

Clicker Phonics is an easy-to-use yet powerful way to use ICT to support early learners. All the activities are carefully designed to be used in both whole-class teaching with the whiteboard and for individual work.

Existing Crick collaborations include the outstanding Oxford Reading Tree for Clicker, Trackers for Clicker and ClickerVision.

For more information on Crick Software please visit our website www.cricksoft.com.