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Onwijs is specialised in the development of
educational multimedia software for schools and at home.
The emphasis with Onwijs products lies on ease of use,
originality, graphics and design, the final polish and the inventive use of different types of media (software, print, video, internet).
This website will tell you more on the educational programs and projects developed by Onwijs.
Onwijs also works on more informational projects for television, video, dvd and the internet under a different name: eeZee-media.
There is more information on these activities at the (Dutch) site: www.eezee-media.nl.
This site has a special section dedicated to the series of MathRoms which were made for Dutch publisher Het Spectrum.
There are 34 titles in the series, each containing 8 or 9 different exercises/games.
The titles are still available but only in Dutch. Work has started on making an online version of a selection of titles, which will available in other languages as well.
Read more on the Digikidz page.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the wellknown character Miffy (or Nijntje as she is called in Dutch)
Onwijs has made a series of 3 cd-roms aimed at very young children (18 mths. - 4 yrs).
Just before finishing primary school most Dutch pupils have to make a test. To help them prepare for these tests Onwijs
has created a series of 5 DVD's with video's with information and a couple of trial tests.
In 2007/2008 Onwijs was co-developer on an educational project called MuisWijs! (MouseWise!).
MuisWijs! is a project about healthy use of computers by children, at school as well as at home.
There is a website and a package for schools, called the MouseKit,
with different types of material that can be used for lessons. There is also a series of assignments, combined into a project on
ThinkQuest projects, a free and international educational website, founded by the Oracle EducationFoundation
The MuisWijs! website contains more information (in Dutch).
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Recent developments:
Since November 2008 Onwijs has been investing a lot of time, energy and enthusiasm in a new technology: the multitouch interface.
You can find this on a number of brandnew devices, with the Microsoft Surface™ as a prime example.
The first achievements are three demo's, about traffic education, math and history, which aim to showcase some of the defining features and new possibilities of this technology and do some experimenting with them.
During the education and technology exhibition IPON2009 in Utrecht Onwijs presented the demo's as a guest of Microsoft.
Read more about the three demo applications and some background on the use of this technology in educational environments on the Surface-page.
You can also check out this short clip.
In May 2008 work started on a project for the provincial library in Middelburg (Zeeuwse bibliotheek). This pilot is part of a national project Beelden voor de Toekomst (Images for the Future).
Main goal of this project is preserving and disclosing the audiovisual heritage of the Netherlands. Film, television, photography and sound from several archives will be digitized and archived.
Libraries are collaborating in the project to make the digitized material available for the main public. In Zeeland the pilot also focuses on educational applications.
Part of the project is creating audiovisual content for the website geschiedeniszeeland.nl and the development of an educational videoquiz and additional material.
At the end of 2006 Onwijs has started preparations on a project for a group of 12 institutions (museums and historical archivers) on Walcheren (part of the Dutch province Zeeland).
The project, called TreasureStories contains among others a series of comics, puzzle/exercisesheets, a promotional video and a website.
Comics, stories and more information can be found on the website.
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