The Famundo Blog

True Stories - What made us choose Famundo

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 13 May 2008 04:50:00 GMT

What made us choose Famundo as our calendar system? It was the three most important features that Famundo offered us that no other online calendar application system could;

1) Cost – as a school with a limited budget you will be well aware that anything that offers a great service for free is preferred.

2) Integration into our school website. Famundo was the only service we looked at that allowed us to embed the calendar into our website design – (and did not embed with links to external sites not suitable for children)

3) Multiple author addition. We wanted a system that allowed our office staff, headteacher and class teachers to add events themselves, and not rely on a sole user to make all changes.

Simon Widdowson

Porchester Junior School, Nottingham, England

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eSchoolNews selects Famundo as site of the week!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:48:00 GMT

eSchoolNews Online has selected Famundo as their site of the week.

(Famundo) is an event calendar planning system designed to help school leaders spend less time on administration and more time focusing on education. Famundo provides a central calendar hub with an easy-to-read, complete view of everything going on in a school or a specific classroom. Features include a tool for managing the planning, scheduling, and coordination of events; a message board containing notes and reminders; and a centralized library for handling documents, photos, and other information.

eSchoolNews is the world’s most visited ed-tech publication website, according to Amazon.com’s web-ranking service Alexa research, with nearly 350,000 monthly unique visitors who specifically seek ed-tech product information.

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Kid Inventors Wanted!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:17:00 GMT

Hat tip to Asha Dornfest at Parent Hacks,

The PBS series Cyberchase is inviting kid inventors ages 6 -12 years old to send videos of themselves and their inventions as part of My Big Idea: Cyberchase Inventions Initiative. Selected videos will be shown on the Cyberchase website and possibly on TV! The deadline is October 20, 2006.

Get your videos in soon!

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Vtirtual Parenting (at least you don't have to pay for college)

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:54:10 GMT

CNETNews reports on a new online parenting game, Eccky, which is similar to NeoPets and really catching on.

A Dutch online game called “Eccky” lets would-be parents find each other, create a virtual baby based on their personal characteristics, and then raise the child with the use of the Web, MSN instant messaging and a cell phone. Parents can feed their virtual kid, play games like chess with “Eccky,” or send the child to an online babysitter—racking up points for raising a healthy, happy adult in a matter of six days, when the game session officially ends.

Read the entire article here.

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