Tinopolis Interactive

Tinopolis help publishing giant Folens enhance their educational resources with a new on-line, interactive teaching environment. Responsible  for developing and hosting http://www.folensonline.ie Tinopolis have produced the site to enable Folens to deliver popular workbooks in digital format to Primary and Secondary schools throughout Ireland.

Key features include an interactive book player, whiteboard functionality, an on-line saving facility allowing the user to develop a personal bank of content and a resource area for uploading supplementary learning assets. The ability to personalise the content to meet a teacher's own classroom needs is what makes this resource so unique in the publishing and educational sector.

Backend functionality includes a Content Management System and PDF tool allowing Folens to import existing / future workbooks and convert to high resolution interactive content.

The environment provides an enlarged format of the book to engage the whole class; the facility to design lessons based on a text book in a manner suitable for different learning styles and levels, supports classroom management by putting resources at teacher's fingertips and generally increases the enjoyment of lessons for both pupils and teacher.

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Tinopolis has won 5 new educational resource commissions with DCELLS; The Department for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning and Skills, part of the Welsh Assembly Government.

The 5 contracts awarded will require Tinopolis to develop and publish both printed and digital resources for the subject areas of MFL, History, R.E. and Politics and will span learning levels from KS2 through to KS5. All resources will be bilingual and suitable for the Welsh schools market.

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New recruitment opportunities for project managers, developers and sales administrators with Tinopolis...

Enthusiastic? Intelligent? Motivated? Flexible? If this sounds like you and you want to join the Tinopolis team, get in touch!

We are currently looking to fill the following positions:

Project Manager
To project manage the day to day requirements of a diverse range of interactive media and web projects while maintaining control of project schedule, allocated budget, high quality standards and project resources.

Product Sales Administrator
To manage the stock, sales and invoicing of our wide range of retail products via direct sales, agent sales, internet sales and retail stores.

Interactive Developer
Lead Developer to be responsible for PHP based projects across the department. The successful applicant will have expertise in PHP and LAMP stack (Linux / Apache / MySql / PHP) as well as good development skills in either ASP.NET (C#) or the Flash Platform (AS3). You will have experience in developing complex web applications using an object-oriented approach (analysis, design and programming) as well as have experience in capturing and documenting client/user requirements. Experience in leading / mentoring junior developers is also essential. Experience working with Moodle and/or Joomla would be desirable.

If you would like to be considered for any of the above positions please forward your CV and a short covering note to mandy.jenkins@tinopolis.com

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A promotional DVD for Oneforseven, a  new snooker game to be played for the first time later this month will be produced by Tinopolis. The revolutionary launch will be a world first with 3 current Snooker World Champions competing against each other in the same event.

Commissioned by Global-snooker.com, the film will feature action shot at the launch event and include interviews with players, organisers and spectatators as well as backstage footage. The DVD will be used to raise the profile of this exciting new game.

The launch event, Oneforseven Wales 2009 will host a select field of 16 players competing against each other in a cumulative points competition at Cardiff's Welsh Institute of Sport. The eventual winner will pocket a lucrative cash prize of £14,707.

The key differences between Oneforseven and the traditional snooker format include play against the clock with 21 minutes maximum per frame, 4 tables of simultaneous play and ball boys assisting each table of play to help maintain the pace of play.

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