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Sara's already written about the Tomorrow Award we were lucky enough to win recently. What we haven't shared is this brilliant video from the judges that they showed on the night - some great quotes about the work from the 'monster' judges including Big Spaceship's Michael Lebowitz, Robert Wong from Google Creative Labs, and Dentsu's Masako Okamura.
Yesterday @malbonster and @bobbyc had the honour of accepting a Tomorrow Award for Skype in the classroom, a service and technology mash-up that connects teachers around the world and helps them collaborate on Skype-based teaching projects.
We are thrilled that Skype in the classroom has been recognised, and we’re especially happy for our client, Skype, with whom we enjoy a strong partnership.
As some of you know, we’ve been working with Skype on Skype in the classroom, a community for teachers and educators, for a few months now. In the time since it was launched formally in April, it has grown by leaps and bounds: we now have more than 16,500 teachers who are collaborating on more than 900 projects across the globe.
Yesterday, we released the most recent set of new features to the service, which we are very excited about.
We’re extremely proud of our work on Skype in the classroom, which we’ve mentioned here in the past a couple of times. The community has now grown to over 14,000 teachers and that’s increasing every day.
When we entered it in the Service Design category at the Core 77 Design Awards, our hopes were high, and though we are a bit disappointed that it didn’t win (congrats to Open Ideo, who did), we are really glad to see it get a 'Notable Professional' mention.
Here’s our video submission that explains how we went about building it:
I usually send a bunch of links around the office every week. Perhaps some of you may be interested by them too:
Yesterday, I spoke at the She Says SCAMP conference 2011. The theme was 'mashup', so I decided to speak about the mashup of my online and offline worlds, or lessons that I've learnt as I work in the digital industry that I also consider offline.
As I'm sure you'll have noticed by now, we're pretty cosily ensconced in the lean salon over here at Made by Many. Lean methods help us create awesome services that people want, but they also hit a nerve because they're all about continuous learning and we like nothing better than learning new things. So following on from Nicki's confessions of a lean virgin last week, I thought I'd share a few stories from our experiences of putting lean principles into practice.
Over the past few months we've been working closely with Skype to develop a service for teachers who use Skype in the classroom. Skype started this project after seeing teachers using Skype in innovative ways, for example to carry out cultural exchanges and bring experts into their classrooms.
Some of you may remember our recent post about our New Year's Eve work for Skype, where we conceived and built a global digital campaign for the brand around the new Skype iPhone app with free video calling over 3G and WiFi.
That isn't all we've been labouring over for the brand. Today, New Media Age covered our latest project for Skype: a community for teachers and educators to connect and use Skype to enrich their students' educational experiences.
