| FableVision’s Stationery Studio™ K-5 Writing Software Lands 2004 Technology & Learning Award of Excellence Award-winning Software Uses PC to Put Pencils Back in the Hands of Children BOSTON, MA. –
Educational media publisher FableVision has received
the 2004 Technology & Learning Award for its Stationery
Studio software product. Stationery Studio, a Mac/Windows software
program for grades K-5, motivates and supports student writing with
its 226 borders and shapes that can be customized with appropriate line
styles, line widths and layouts for stories, reports, shape books, letters
and more. The award is sponsored by Technology & Learning
Stationery Studio was chosen by more than 30 educator-judges who test-drove the application in schools. This enthusiastic embrace by educators has been building since the product’s release last year. Stationery Studio quickly landed “Best of 2003” from Children’s Software Review, which called it “one of those programs you wonder how you ever did without.” Editor of Children’s Software Press Diane Kendall explains that FableVision has “brought what elementary teachers should and could be doing down to very simple terms for busy teachers to use instantly.” Stationery Studio
is the latest collaboration between teacher, parent, writer, award-winning
software designer Dr. Peggy Healy Stearns and children's
author and illustrator/educator Peter H. Tom Plati, Director of Libraries and Educational Technologies for Wellesley (MA) Public Schools, concurs, “Stationery Studio is one of the best new products of the last two years. Universally, my elementary teachers who are using the program rave about it.” Stationery Studio is a writing toolbox equipped with a library of over 200 curriculum-based borders and hsapes by children’s book author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds (Judy Moody, The Dot, Ish). Teachers and students can customize the writing paper with developmentally appropriate primary and standard line styles, line widths, layouts, as well as print, manuscript, cursive and dotted fonts for handwriting practice. Projects and writing templates can be printed in a variety of formats from full-page to mii-book for stories, reports, letters journals and postcards, shape books and more. The kit includes ready-to-go projects and resources including the book, "Let's Get Writing" by Dr. Peggy Healy Stearns, which offers proven strategies for motivating and supporting young writers. "We designed Stationery Studio to support today's classrooms," says Dr. Peggy, "where students still do most of their writing and test-taking by hand." According to Technology Center Education Coordinator Evelyn Woldman M.Ed. at MESPA (Massachusetts Elementary School Principals' Association), "The beauty of Stationery Studio is that it fits into whatever you are doing . . . Stationery Studio provides a vehicle for children to communicate in a great variety of ways, allowing for creativity, different styles of presentation, and lots of fun.” Led by twin brothers Peter and Paul Reynolds, FableVision continues to build an award-winning reputation among the educational, publishing and cross-media landscape. In 2001, FableVision released BrainCogs: Test-Taking Survival Kit® a unique multimedia tool to help all types of learners develop research-based strategies for learning, studying and test-taking. BrainCogs (http://www.braincogs.com) also been honored with major industry awards, including Media & Methods Awards Portfolio, District Administrator's District's Choice Award (Top 100 Products) – as well as landing AEP’s (Association of Educational Publishers) 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award in children’s multimedia. About Dr. Peggy Healy Stearns: Dr. Peggy Healy Stearns’ trademark “real-world classroom” design for software comes from her twenty years' experience at the K-12 level, including her work as a classroom teacher and district technology coordinator. Peggy also taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and has presented seminars and conference sessions to thousands of educators across the country. She has designed seven best-selling children’s software programs including The Graph Club, Neighborhood MapMachine, Community Construction Kit, Diorama Designer, and Rainforest Designer. Her software has earned over two dozen major national awards. About FableVision: Founded in 1996 by Peter and Paul Reynolds, FableVision is dedicated to serving children by creating "stories that matter, stories that move" for educators, families, museums, publishers and broadcasters. The firm’s offerings include broadcast programming, web, CD, DVD, handheld media, museum kiosks, and classroom products. The FableVision team includes a diverse group of educators, writers, animators, instructional designers, research partners, programmers, interactive media specialists and university professors. For more information, check out http://www.fablevision.com/stationerystudio
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Reynolds
who also founded FableVision. The duo has been working
together for over a decade. Reynolds points out, "Dr. Peggy develops
for teachers and students, not marketing departments – and result
is tools that really work."
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