This page contains previous engagements related to the iRead project.

2020

  • 14/07/2020 (online): UCL team video ‘Using technology to support children learning to read and those with literacy difficulties’ for UCL Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy website . More info here
  • 01/07/2020 (online): British Council team contribute to magazine article describing their work on the iRead project in the ELT magazine.
  • 01/07/2020 (Barcelona): University of Barcelona iRead research study measuring the impact of system use on the development of accuracy and fluency in EFL reading.
  • 23/06/2020 (online): Fish in a Bottle and UCL team hold industry event at IDC 2020 showcasing Navigo. More info here
  • 19/06/2020 (online): UCL team and University of Barcelona present workshop at IDC 2020: ‘Technology-mediated personalized learning for younger learners: concepts, methods and practice.’ More info here
  • 18/06/2020 (online):  Navigo @ Home online series: ‘Ask the game designers’. More info here
  • 17/06/2020 (online): UCL team hold update on progress in UK schools and send out ‘Using the iRead technologies in UK schools‘ infographic poster to school network.
  • 16/06/2020 (Germany): DHBW team holds presentation to Ministry of Education for Baden Württemberg.
  • 11/06/2020 (online): Navigo @ Home online series: ‘Reading games to support children with dyslexia’. More info here
  • 11/06/2020 (online): UCL team holds seminar for project teachers in professional development practices as part of the London Connected Learning Centre seminar to Erasmus+ practitioners.
  • 04/06/2020 (online): Navigo @ Home online series: ‘Choosing and using high quality reading apps’. More info here
  • 03/06/2020 (online): Ask the teachers: Stormont School – A Q&A series involving teachers across Europe. More info here
  • 30/04/2020 (online): iRead newsletter #9 ‘New technologies, new environments!’. More info here
  • 25/03/2020 (online): Info sharing with BETT show attendees re new developments. More info here
  • 23/03/2020 (online): UCL team gives workshop at LAK (Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference) called ‘Inspiration Cards Workshops with Teachers in Early Co-Design Stages of Learning Analytics’. More info here
  • 16/03/2020 – 01/07/2020 (online): Various newsletter communication with families and schools across Europe to update about covid-19 and how to use the Navigo game at home.
  • 28/02/2020 (Romania): ULBS team hold practitioner seminar involving computer science and English teachers from the Sibiu region. More info here
  • 21/02/22 (UK): iRead Navigo game featured in DfE press release titled “Early years apps approved to help families kick start learning at home”
  • 31/01/20 (Spain): iRead project Amigo reader and Navigo game featured in a news program presented by children, broadcasted by Betevé channel, Barcelona Television.
  • 22/01/20 (UK): FIAB, Pickatale, EDIA and UCL team participate in BETT show 2020; a large scale edtech exhibition for practitioners, industry and the general public. The team present the iRead technologies to attendees at the dedicated iRead stand.

2019

  • 17/12/19 (Spain): UoB team and iRead project featured in a local newspaper story in Catalonia, Ara. More info here
  • 16/12/19 (Sweden): UGOT team participate in dialogue seminars at Future Learning Event. More info
  • 10/12/19 (UK): iRead project Navigo game is awarded quality mark by DfE’s ‘Hungry Little Minds’ campaign and featured on UCL IOE website.
  • 22/10/19 (Spain): UoB team participated in the 3rd international conference Gamilearn ’19 in Barcelona. More info here
  • 14/10/19 (Norway): iRead project featured in our project partner Pickatale’s children’s newspapers
  • 05/10/2019 (UK): UCL team present iRead project at UCL ‘It’s All Academic Festival’. More info here
  • 27/09/2019 (Greece): NTUA team talk at Researchers’ Night Event at the National Technical University of Athens. More info here
  • 27/09/2019 (Romania): ULBS team share info and run demos for students. More info here
  • 27/09/19 (Italy): ULBS team present iRead project at ERASMUS+ KA2 project event entitled DigiFoF. More info here
  • 26/09/2019 (Sweden): University of Gothenburg team run workshop at the Gothenburg book fair. More info here
  • 18/09/19 (UK): In collaboration with London-based kartoffel films, UCL commissioned a new video that features students in the UK sharing their experiences of using the Navigo app. Watch it here
  • 18/09/19 (UK): Dolphin produced a new video that explains key features of the Amigo reader. Watch it here
  • 07/07/2019 (Germany): DHBW team share info and run demos for students at science festival in Karlsruhe. More info here
  • 26/06/2019 (Greece): University of Ioannina team are interviewed for local radio
  • 20/06/2019 (Spain): DFKI team present keynote at VICOMTECH. More info here
  • 18/06/2019 (Sweden): UoG team hold practitioner workshop and presentation at #PopUpDig 19, School Digitisation Event. More info here
  • 13/05/2019 (UK): UCL team are interviewed for article ‘Can video games really help children learn? on BBC Bitesize website. More info here
  • 09/05/2019 (UK): UCL team write article ‘How do you know if a reading app is any good?’ for TES online. More info here
  • 06/05/19 (UK): UCL and NTUA team present iRead technologies at demo exhibition, CHI 2019 conference, in Glasgow, UK. More info here
  • 27/03/19 (UK): UCL team give talk on ‘Presenting adaptivity and learning analytics work’ at Birkbeck University department seminar. More info here
  • 15/03/2019 (Greece): University of Ioannina team are interviewed for local radio.
  • 15/03/2019 (Greece): University of Ioannina team hold presentation to teachers, parents and general public at Main Library Amphitheatre in Ioannina.
  • 01/03/2019 (Sweden): UoB team give talk at the Language Education Department of the University of Stockholm on serious games and their impact on language acquisition

2018

  • 20/12/2018 (Greece): Online news article on Documento News about Navigo recieving award by Serious Games Society. More info here
  • 19/11/2018 (Belgium): DFKI and UCL teams present project at ‘Tech for Good’ expo. More info here
  • 06/11/2018 (Spain): UoB team give talk at the Department of Communication and Social Sciences at Universidad de San Jorge in Zaragoza, Spain. More info here
  • 01/11/2018 (Portugal): UCL team Present iRead at ELN Conference funded by COST Action IS1401 – Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network (ELN). More info
  • 17/10/18 (Germany): DFKI team presentation of projects running at MLT lab of DFKI including iREAD to new Master students. More info here
  • 16/10/2018 (Spain): University of Barcelona team are interviewed for TV programme Página Dos in La 2 public TV channel. More info here
  • 09/10/18 (UK): UCL team give talk at University of Sussex, UK.
  • 08/10/18 (Italy): UCL team present seminar on Learning Analytics component of iRead at University of Padova. More info here
  • 04/10/18 (France): Fish in a Bottle participate in the final round of the International Educational Games Competition, held during the ECGBL 2018 conference in Nice, France.
  • 01/09/18 (France): UCL team present seminar on iRead project, in Paris, France.
  • 11/07/18 (UK): UCL team hold workshop disseminating findings from reading games research aimed at primary school teachers with a focus on dyslexia. More info here
  • 19/06/2018 (Sweden): University of Gothenburg team run workshop at #PopUpDig18 (conference about the digitalisation of schools). Presentation can be found here (in Swedish)
  • 12/06/18 (UK): Fish in a Bottle and UCL present talk as part of the UCL Knowledge Lab seminar series. More info here
  • 25/05/18 (UK): Talk given by UCL team as part of University of Lincoln Games Network Seminar Series. More info here
  • 16/04/2018 (Sweden): University of Gothenburg team run workshop for children at Gothenburg Science Festival – School Programme. Presentation can be found here (in Swedish)
  • 19/03/2018 (Spain): University of Barcelona team hold workshop on gamification.
  • 16/02/2018 (Germany):DFKI team hold presentation of iRead project to Allianz, in Saarbrücken
  • 14/02/2018 (Spain): DHBW team give a number of workshops on gamification in Barcelona and Valls (Tarragona) for teachers and doctoral students. More info here
  • 05/02/18 (Germany): DFKI team hold presentation of iRead project to Deutsche Boerse, in Saarbrücken
  • 15/01/2018 (Germany): DFKI team hold presentation of iRead project to shareholders (Google), in Saarbrücken

2017

  • 15/11/2017 (UK): Talk given by UCL team as part of University of Leeds seminar series. More info here
  • 01/11/2017 (UK): Fish in a Bottle team produce film about the iRead game Navigo. More info here
  • 27/10/17 (UK): Talk given by UCL team as part of University of Birmingham HCI seminar series.More info
  • 04/07/2017 (UK): UCL team hold talk at the Professional Learning Network Meeting at UCL Centre for Inclusive Education Professional Learning Network. Presentation can be found here
  • 30/06/2017 (Cyprus): Doukas School participate in the IPDBC (Identity & Diversity Tales Picture Book Collections) Project Final Conference. More info here
  • 19/06/2017 (Sweden): University of Gothenburg team run workshop at #PopUpDig17 (conference about the digitalisation of schools). Presentation can be found here (in Swedish)
  • 19/06/2017 (UK): UCL team participate in EdTech Week 2017. More info here
  • 13/06/17 (Austria): DFKI team introduce iREAD as part of a lecture on text mining in Klagenfurt, Austria.
  • 24/05/17 (Romania): ULBS team are interviewed for Radio Sibiu. More info here
  • 30/03/17 (Croatia): UCL team present at COST action meeting for literacy, in Croatia. More info here
  • 27/03/17 (UK): UCL team participate in an organised event for EU Horizon 2020 projects. More info here
  • 06/03/17 (UK): UCL press release introduce the iRead project. More info here