Press Release

Azzurri and Encyclopædia Britannica Launch Talmos Britannica at BETT 2007
Enabling Teachers and Students to Access Thousands of Trusted Reference Materials at School and at Home Online

Azzurri Communications and Encyclopædia Britannica have joined forces to unveil Talmos Britannica, a new online system that enables teachers to create lesson plans and other aids to classroom teaching and homework, with ease, confidence and accuracy.

Unveiled on Azzurri's stand (D101) at BETT, Talmos Britannica is an exclusive combination of TALMOS, the market-leading lesson planning and learning platform; and Britannica's huge and unrivalled resource of carefully-edited, authoritative information, photographs, illustrations, video, audio and interactive content.

Teachers and students will now benefit from access to thousands of Key Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 resources across all curriculum subjects delivered within Talmos through the world's leading source of trusted information - Encyclopædia Britannica. Users of Talmos Britannica benefit from three great attributes: content organised by teachers for teaching purposes, trusted material from the world's most authoritative source, and a secure learning environment for classroom and home use. Teachers will be able to search the full range of Britannica's online databases for learning modules, text, images, and interactive content closely aligned to the curriculum.

Having access to Talmos' unique curriculum tagging capability, teachers will save time spent on planning lessons by confidently matching appropriate resources to strands of the curriculum and QCA Schemes of Work.

Encyclopædia Britannica includes the work of many of the world's most distinguished scholars. Past contributors included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Sigmund Freud. Talmos Britannica draws on this immense tradition and presents its content in a way that's carefully formulated for today's teachers and students.

Gerard Toplass, Business Development Director for Azzurri said: “We are extremely excited about this partnership and are delighted to be able to showcase Talmos Britannica at BETT 2007. Teachers will be able to search Talmos Britannica's unique, authoritative content and incorporate it into their planning to deliver powerful and engaging lessons to match the different requirements for their students. To further improve lesson preparation and delivery within the classroom, we are also producing subject by subject lesson plans, including homework as companions to the service.”

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About Azzurri Communications:

Azzurri Communications was formed in June 2000 and is currently made up of 15 strategic company acquisitions. With over 800 employees nationwide, Azzurri is one of the largest converged voice, data, and managed service companies in the UK with an annualised turnover in excess of £100 million.

Redefining the vision for learning, as a specialist provider of complete ICT solutions for the education market, Azzurri revolutionise and embrace learning and teaching by providing unique, fit for purpose educational technology. Azzurri's BETT Award 2004 short-listed flagship software suite Talmos (Teaching and Learning Management Open System) provides the perfect platform to deliver the Government's vision for personalised learning. Talmos develops collaborative working within individual schools, LEA and school clusters, helping them accelerate improvements in standards and strengthen teaching and learning.

Partnering with leading manufacturers and networks, additional products provided by Azzurri include: consultancy, design, project management, hardware, infrastructure, security, broadband internet, email, internet safety and wide area network management.

About Encyclopaedia Britannica:

Encyclopædia Britannica is a leader in reference and education publishing since 1768 whose products can be found in a variety of media, from the internet to mobile phones to books. A pioneer in electronic publishing since the early 1980s, the company still publishes the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, along with services such as Britannica Online School Edition and new printed products such as Britannica Discovery Library. Britannica's editorial operation is overseen by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, several of them Nobel laureates.

Contact:

Luke Simmons Encyclopaedia Britannica UK Ltd 0207 500 7800 lsimmons@britannica.co.uk