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Subject: Acorn news release: Horizon
Date: 20 Jan 93 08:43:36 GMT

Acorn Opens Up Horizons in Hampshire

Embargo Release Date 20th January 1993

Acorn Computers is sponsoring a group of 45 schools in and around Hampshire
as part of an integrated media project in education.

The Horizon Project aims to deliver some thirty multimedia applications
built by teachers and will also demonstrate the power of multimedia in the
hands of pupils in aged from five to 18.  At the end of the year-long
project a report will be written on the creation of multimedia applications
and the integration of different types of media in curriculum-related
subjects.

Acorn's initial sponsorship of over #50,000 has helped the schools involved
acquire equipment and expertise with which to start authoring their
particular projects. Two software packages - Genesis from Oak Solutions and
Magpie from Longman Logotron - are being used as the principal authoring
media and investigation is being made into the possible uses of input
sourcing equipment such as scanners, digitisers, sound samplers, genlock
cards and other devices.

Horizon enables the material developers  to design their packages in
response to the National Curriculum. These projects address specific links
at particular attainment targets within such subject areas as modern
languages, technology, history, english, science, geography and maths.

Each package is being written to encourage pupils to ask questions, make
deductions and to search for answers away from the computer. Pupils are
actively encouraged to become involved in the learning process and
interactivity is a key feature.

It is expected that the Horizon project will run until September 1993.

ENDS

Further information from Rachel Pullen, Acorn Computers, Tel [phone]