Where Blackpool4Me started
In January 2004 the I-CAN team, with partners and friends went ti the UKs biggest educational conference BETT 04 to launch an idea. CommunityWise was the name we gave to a sofdtware product originating from Granada, and which was to be the basis for what we now call Blackpool4Me.
NOTE: * To view the slides you require Quicktime. Click here to downloadThe presentation I gave at BETT is below. We were close to having the ideas all in place, and we felt that, as it was based on an educational software platform that BETT was an ideal launchpad.
Attended by a small on select group, we took a classic spot on the BETT agenda and showed the work what we were dreaming about and working towards. Now Blackpool4Me is live, we leave it to you to decide how close we have now got to what we were working on. What I will say is that the CommunityWise screenshots were dressed to look the way we wanted, but that we never quite had the freedom to get the 'tabbed' look we were after at the time. Blackpool4Me does get there though!