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06 / 2009	Lingonet has produced multimedia material for Gyldendal, a leading Danish publisher of educational material, to supplement their English language text book First Choice. The digital educational material for grade 3 and 4 students is based on Lingonet’s multimedia formats.

03 / 2009	ITOP from France acquired the rights to several authentic video interviews made by Lingonet. The videos will become part of their new programme A l’écoute des médias Interviews, which is targeted to deaf and hearing-impaired students. With these videos the students can practise their English listening comprehension as well as lip-reading.

11 / 2008	Lingonet took part in the exhibition of the 48th session of the International Conference on Education. The conference was held in Geneva from the 25th-28th of November 2008 with the theme “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future”. The International Conference on Education is a major international forum for education policy dialogue among Ministers of Education and other stakeholders.

10 / 2008	The French Ministry of Education included Lingonet’s Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada programmes as part of their Clé USB project. The project's aim is to support information and communication technologies in education by providing recent teacher graduates a comprehensive package of materials for immediate use.

09 / 2008	International Cy acquired video resource rights for three of Lingonet’s programmes: Business Territory 1, Business Territory 2 and VoxPop. The videos will be part of a foreign language education portal made for the Kangaroo language training centres in France. The University of Nancy will design and implement the pedagogical structure and content for the Kangaroo portal and produce digital exercises to support the video materials.

09 / 2008	The Italian publishing house Giuseppe Principato S.p.A bought the publishing rights to the language program Teentalk Britain. The company will bind the program with its English-language textbook designed for comprehensive school. The Finnish company Lingonet has used its virtual visit structure in the Teentalk Britain program. Via their computer screens, 12 to 14 year old students studying English can get to know English-speaking pupils as, without a script, they talk about themselves, their daily routine, their hobbies, what they like and about their school. In the videotaped interviews, the British and Canadian youth answer questions originally thought up by Finnish students. The interviews offer a starting point for a plethora of authentic-language-based activities where the language becomes a tool to get to know new friends and to learn about their experiences. Using various exercises, the programs are designed to direct the students' attention to how native English-speaking youth express their ideas and thus deepen the learning experience by piquing their interest. Lingonet originally developed the Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada programs for CD-ROMS and institutional intranets, but the latest versions also support Internet use. The programs received the French Education Ministry's quality label and their publishing rights have been sold to SanomaWSOY, Uni-C/Malling Beck in Denmark, Aschehough in Norway, Spain's Groupo Anaya, Turkey's Limasollu and Ernst Klett in Germany. Through a recently sealed contract, the entire authentic Teentalk material will also be put on the French Education Ministry's portal, which will allow teachers to offer language content within a European framework. The first senior secondary level Teentalk interviews in Swedish will appear in May as part of the SvenskaNu project. Lingonet Oy is a company based in Turku specializing in foreign language educational material. For more information, contact Katri Oldendorff at +358 45 134 1368 or email her at firstname.lastname@lingonet.com

11 / 2007	Lingonet Oy and the Norwegian publisher H. Aschehoug & Co. seal a deal over Teentalk Britain Lingonet’s Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada once again took the world by storm! “First of all, I would like to say that we are very enthusiastic about Teentalk,” said an executive with the Norwegian educational publisher Aschehoug on seeing Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada multimedia programs. In the first phase, Teentalk Britain’s authentic student interviews and the multimedia exercises that go with them will be included in Aschehoug’s educational portal, organized by subject. Teentalk Canada will follow in the second phase in 2008. Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada have both previously received accolades, for example, in France where the education ministry gave them both the Reconnu d’intérêt pédagogique label which recognizes digital educational material that has high teaching and pedagogical content. Programs have been published previously in Finland, Turkey, Spain and Denmark by local educational publishers, and the English versions have been sold to more than 30 countries. Lingonet has developed a virtual visit paradigm, that has been applied to its Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada products. Students aged 12 to 14 who are studying English can, through their computer screen, get to know English speakers who, without a script, tell about themselves, their daily routine, their hobbies, their interests and about going to school in their country. The program directs the learners, through various exercises, to notice how native speakers in England and Canada express themselves and thus awakens their curiosity to learn.

09 / 2007	Digital VideoCorpus and an academic study of the English language
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06 / 2007	Maire Makinen presents her experiences working with the VideoCorpus at the 2007 EUROCALL Conference. The conference takes place at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. The title of the presentation is VideoCorpus as a teaching aid and an e-form as a means of collecting feedback. Maire Makinen is an English language lecturer at the University of Helsinki's Language Centre. She tested out the Lingonet VideoCorpus program with two groups of students in fall, 2006. The students' feedback was largely enthusiastic and positive. Test out the VideoCorpus program ...

06 / 2007	Lingonet is making an Interactive Whiteboard version of WordPal for a leading Danish publisher of educational material. WordPal, digital educational material designed for grade 5 and 6 students studying English, has been used for a year by Danish students through Gyldendal's Digibib portal. Feedback and experiences have been very positive. In order to get optimal use out of the material also during contact hours, Gyldendal also ordered the interactive whiteboard version so that WordPal can be better integrated into teacher-led instruction.

2006	Lingonet delivers the WordPal collection of multimedia learning objects for the Digibib portal of Gyldendal, the leading Danish textbook publisher.

2006	Mario Rinvolucri reflects on his career as a language teacher and teacher trainer on a new Lingonet CD-Rom.
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2006	Lingonet English Pro works as a survival kit, when you have to express yourself in English.
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