Naace have been successful in securing a TDA bid won by Steven Coombes based at Bath Spa University and being delivered as a 'Visual Learning Course' by Christina Preston and John Cuthell at MirandaNet (based at The Institute of Education, London).

The 'Let's Play - 2008 Project' focuses on using the Oracle Education Foundation's www.think.com to provide a range of online opportunities for children to build their own websites. The project has been led by Educational Consultant and Advanced Skills Teacher, Paul Vale, as an extension to 'The 101+ Club Project' which ran in 2006-2007.

Imagine a world where schoolchildren are contacting pupils in schools around the world through a totally safe, virtual environment, chatting about differences, sharing pictures, and posting opinions about stories they've read and written. Their teachers are making sure skills in literacy, numeracy, ICT and communication are being improved. The children are sharing ideas about how to live more healthy lifestyles. This Article illustrates how some of this is possible through the 101+ Club Project, supported by by the Oracle Education Foundation.

I shall be at the BETT Exhibition at Olympia in London between 9-12 January 2008 and look forward to meeting familiar and new faces. In previous years I have looked at what I can get out of BETT in terms of the freebies on offer as well as information gleaned from people spoken to and seminars attended. In recent years I seem to have been giving more than I have taken away, being invited to share stands and give presentations.

The target for the project was the setting up 200 children with their own interactive web-sites in 4 weeks! The idea was to set up safe on-line web accounts using www.think.com with primary children and their teachers and to help them appreciate the potential that Web 2.0 technologies have to enhance teaching and learning.

The project ran for 4 weeks and was a joint venture sponsored by The Oracle Education Foundation and MirandaNet abased at the Institute of Education in London. The project sponsored several other schools and culminated in a meeting to share work and achievements on July 10th 2008 at the MirandaNet's 'WLE centre'(World e-Citizens) based at the Institute of Education in London.