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TaskMagic
Reviews |
See
below for reviews of TaskMagic... |
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We
were on stand 13 at the Languages Show, Olympia, London. |
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TaskMagic2
was launched in January 2007 at BETT 2007. |
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TaskMagic1
Reviews |
The
reviews below are all regarding the previous version of TaskMagic:
TaskMagic1. TaskMagic2 has many new games and features making it
a much bigger and better resource. |
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TaskMagic
is mentioned in 5 of the Languages ICT Action Research Projects
carried out by teachers in secondary schools in England. It
is the central focus of the Crofton School project. Click
here
to go to the Action Research pages of the Languages ICT website. |
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TaskMagic
was featured in a Modern Languages ICT Special Resource Review
on Teachers' TV. This was first aired in November 2006. Click
here
to see the video on the Teachers' TV website. |
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TaskMagic
was mentioned in two separate articles in the Guardian e-valuate
publication on 18/10/05. One of the articles is about using
software
and games in the languages class, and the other is about
teaching languages
in Primary Schools. |
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TaskMagic
is featured in a CILT publication on using digital language
labs in MFL teaching. Click here
to see the publication in PDF format (requires acrobat reader). |
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TaskMagic
is eligible for e-learning credits and is featured on the
Curriculum Online website, where a review
has been written by Lizzie Hoskins. |
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TaskMagic
was recommended several times on the ICT Advice site - Ask
an Expert - MFL. We used to have links to the
recommendations on the ICT Advice site, but the site has been
decommissioned and the information can no longer be located:( |
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TaskMagic
was recommended in the Specialist School’s Trust Language
Colleges conference in Lille 2005 (wrongly attributed to Linguascope,
who re-sell TaskMagic for us). Click here
to see the PowerPoint presentation delivered by Paul Keogh. |
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TaskMagic
was recommended at the Specialist School’s Trust Languages
Update 2004. Click here
to see the article in PDF format (requires acrobat reader). |
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The
Ashcombe School in Surrey is a Specialist Language College
which has published reviews of a wide range of software titles
used in their MFL department. Click here
to read their review of TaskMagic. The website
also contains links to many useful Web resources for MFL teachers. |
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TaskMagic
(then called TaskMaster) was featured in the TES
Online BETT Preview (02/01/04) and was listed as one of
the TOP 3 products to see at BETT for teachers of Modern Languages. |
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TaskMagic
was featured in the Education Guardian Evaluate Supplement
(06/01/04) in an article about using interactive whiteboards
to enthuse all pupils in MFL learning. Click here
to read the Guardian Evaluate article. |
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TaskMagic
was featured in the TES Teacher MFL Curriculum Special (07/05/04)
in a review by Alison Thomas. Click here
to read the TES Teacher review. |
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TaskMagic
Quotes |
The
following are genuine quotes from TaskMagic1 users or people who
have seen it in action. We stopped adding to this list a couple
of years ago as we felt it was in danger of taking over the site!
Of course, don’t take their word for it…try out the
free 30-day trial of TaskMagic2 for yourself. With loads more game
formats and new features, TaskMagic2 has a lot more to offer than
the TaskMagic versions that the users below were commenting on. |
“An
excellent product.” |
“A
wonderful product!” |
“Very
good value for money.” |
“The
games are brilliant!” |
“It
is extremely easy to learn how to create the files.” |
“I
really enjoyed the variety of games.” |
“Very
easy to create tasks quickly, just before a lesson – including
ease of inserting pictures and sound.” |
“Pupil
response: Excellent, from boys and girls. They love the challenge
and the feedback, and get very competitive.” |
“TaskMagic
is easy to use and very useful in language teaching. The interactivity
enables me to easily develop exercises for use with an electronic
whiteboard.”
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“Pupils
love playing the games, which test mouse control and speed of response
as well as understanding!” |
“Tasks
are easy to create, making it a valuable teaching resource in our
MFL lessons in the computer room.” |
“Lots
of staff are keen to use TaskMagic and the only problem is students
expect to see it as a starter all the time!” |
“TaskMagic
is going down very well indeed with students and I am using it very
frequently also on the interactive whiteboard.” |
“We
have no hesitation in recommending TaskMagic. Its professional layout
and the variety of tasks on this excellent program are a fantastic
motivational tool in language learning.” |
“Thanks
for a highly motivating programme.” |
“An
extremely satisfied user.” |
“TaskMagic
is a reliable and extremely useful programme that everyone here
loves to use.” |
“The
only problem is keeping it from other subject teachers!” |
“I
appreciate the personal service and regular updates.”
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“Thanks
for TaskMagic - it has certainly helped me keep pupils interested.” |
“I
am looking forward to demonstrating this to my
PGCE students. I think they will be very excited by it.”
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“Wow!
I'm really impressed with this!“ |
“TaskMagic
is fab!” |
“My
primary colleagues are absolutely delighted” |
“I
think it's brilliant, so versatile and easy to create fun activities
for all ages and abilities of students.” |
“At
my school languages teachers
are very impressed with the software.”
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“I
am thrilled with your program.” |
“I
have heard great things about TaskMagic” |
“As
far as I'm concerned, it's the best value for money I've ever had.
Just buy it - you won't regret it! Promise!” |
“Since
receiving the CD yesterday, I have started to make my own German
resources and it is
delightfully easy.”
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“Pupils
become very competitive to try and complete
the exercise correctly and in the quickest time.”
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“Using
a games package to teach Modern Foreign
Languages has got the whole class enthused.”
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“Works
for all years and abilities” |
“I
use TaskMagic now and think it's wonderful” |
“Splitting
texts up and putting them back together is good for AS.”
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“It
really gets them thinking about
the structure of sentences.”
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“It’s
a way of turning something quite boring into something exciting.”
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“Even
as the school day draws to a close,
volunteers clamour to come up to the front.”
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“Well
done. A very impressive piece of software.” |
“I
have lots of departments now using TaskMagic -
they think it's brilliant!!”
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“TaskMagic
is being used extensively throughout the
school - and I am receiving lots of positive feedback -
Thanks for creating a great resource!”
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“Teams
- boys against girls - become fiercely
competitive, desperate to better a previous score.”
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“For
boys, this competitive element can be particularly appealing.”
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“A
great-value authoring package
that works in any language.”
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“I
would like a trial CD of this software everybody is talking about
at the moment!!”
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“Another
time-saving tool that takes the sting out of lesson preparation.”
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| If
you would like to give us your feedback on any aspect of TaskMagic,
let us know what you think by emailing
us. |