November 2005 eLearning Credits £125 million more for Electronic Learning Credits Andrew Adonis,Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools,yesterday announced an extra £125 million of eLearning credits for schools to spend on educational software. The press release states that this means that a total of £200m is being invested in education software over the next two years.
The ring fenced £125m is on top of the £75m announced as part schools' overall capital allocations in November last year and will only be available for spending on Curriculum Online approved products and services like eSAAMS.
read more about eLearning Credits
go to press release
October 2005 BETT Show 2006
Visit Counterpoint MTC at BETT 2006 - Stand G40
| | 11 - 14 January 06, Olympia London
BETT is the world's leading educational ICT event, attracting over 600 educational suppliers and 27,000 visitors, and bringing together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations.
| | Counterpoint MTC is the UK's leading Music Technology Supplier - favoured supplier to many PFI projects, Academies, New Schools Builds and the Central Buying Consortium.
This year featuring:
| - | iLessons, the powerful new software solution enabling teachers to use the Internet confidently by keeping students focused and on track. www.ilessons.co.uk
| | - | eSAAMS, the leading Assessment for Learning tool allowing teachers to capture audio, video and photographic evidence of students’ work, directly into ePortfolios. www.esaams.co.uk |
www.cmtc.co.uk
July 2005
eSAAMS v 3.0 Launch
Counterpoint has enhanced its successful eSAAMS software with the launch of Version 3.0.
eSAAMS, the assessment system for recording work and achievements within the practical ‘arts’ areas of the curriculum, now includes additional features and functionality and improves the software’s ability to involve pupils in the assessment and review process. For many areas of the curriculum such as numeracy, literacy and science, quantitative assessment and planning systems are a vital support tool to ensure children’s learning requirements are highlighted. Such systems however are not appropriate for the creative, music and art areas of the curriculum that combine knowledge and understanding with the encouragement of self expression. eSAAMS streamlines the capture, management and assessment of such work, while version 3.0 engages pupils in the process for more focused, personalised learning through the use of video and audio recording. Caroline Clarke, Year 6 teacher and ICT co-ordinator at Chafford Hundred Campus Primary School comments, “For me there are certain subjects that are difficult to record. With eSAAMS you do not have to have a finished product, you can monitor pupils’ progression as they go along, recording snapshots of their work. In music however, recording a still image of someone playing a saxophone is not very constructive. With the video function available in version 3.0 the pupils have the opportunity to review their own performance, identify areas for improvement and add their own comments to the record. This self assessment feature has proved wonderful in allowing children to take responsibility for their own development.” The latest version also offers the ability to set up simple templates before the lesson. Caroline explains, “Previously I had to prepare assessment templates during the lesson. Now, when I know that I would like to record the group’s performance I can set up the templates and record the lesson objectives and required outcomes. Once the lesson starts it only takes a matter of moments to record their performances. eSAAMS has become a core product in all the ‘arts’ and performance areas of the curriculum at Chafford Hundred.”
sscroll up
March 2004
eSAAMS TES Review eSAAMS received a glowing review in the TES Teacher Magazine last week (March 19th). Hamble School (Hampshire) have been using eSAAMS for almost a year and Head of Music, Adam Brunick is confident that there has been a “measurable improvement in student learning”.
eSAAMS software allows teachers to record audio and video evidence of students work to enhance and develop learning and streamline assessment. As recordings are immediately stored against the appropriate student(s) record card(s) they are instantly available as a resource for monitoring progress and assisting student learning. eSAAMS is ideal for primary, secondary, college and further education and in England can also be purchased using your schools e Learning Credits.
February 2004
eSAAMS in Warwickshire After two months of evaluation Warwickshire LEA’s Music Service have invested in eSAAMS for all their secondary schools. The ability of eSAAMS to help develop student learning by harnessing the power of audio and video recordings of students work has been a key factor.
eSAAMS software allows teachers to record audio and video evidence of students work to enhance and develop learning and streamline assessment. As recordings are immediately stored against the appropriate student(s) record card(s) they are instantly available as a resource for monitoring progress and assisting student learning. eSAAMS is ideal for primary, secondary, college and further education and in England can also be purchased using your schools e Learning Credits.
scroll up
September 2003
New Reporting Solution Counterpoint MTC are pleased to announce the planned launch of eSAAMS Reporting Creation Tools for the last quarter of 2003.
These tools will be powered by Crystal Reports, the world leading data reporting software.
This new eSAAMS add-on will allow customers to create and format their own reports, whether for printing or for export to other systems.
July 2003
eSAAMS v 2.0 Launch Counterpoint MTC Ltd is pleased to announce the launch of eSAAMS 2.0. eSAAMS 2.0 provides powerful new tools that allow teachers to record, assess and manage electronic evidence of pupil's work effectively
Regular use of audio and video in the classroom, whether as a tool to assist in teaching or for gathering evidence for monitoring and assessment could be a logistical nightmare. eSAAMS turns this type of activity into a very simple and practical task.
Audio and video can be recorded straight into eSAAMS, marked, commented and stored next to the student's record card. This automatic filing of recordings saves time and facilitates quick retrieval during subsequent lessons. eSAAMS also allows other electronic student workpieces to be stored against their records, includes an electronic registration system and allows teachers to create their own marking schemes.
eSAAMS can be used on any windows 2000 or XP machine including desktops, laptops and tablet PCs.
scroll up
March 2003
Ofsted Recommend Multimedia Recording in Learning and Assessment Practice "In the best practice, teachers find effective ways to log this evidence of progress, usually by using audio or video recording facilities, or by saving the evidence on a computer disk."
Ofsted's recent report ''Good Assessment Practice in Music' (March 2003) suggests that teachers should find effective ways to log evidence of student progress, using audio and video recordings, or by storing work pieces as computer files. eSAAMS makes capturing work in this way and the subsequent management of files | 
