‘Many of the other labs we looked at could not provide clear and synchronous audio for the students and teachers. When we tested and installed the Sony software the audio was excellent and ticked all the key IT boxes.’

Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) in Ireland invests in SONY Virtuoso Language Lab software.

Dr Ian Foster, Director of Learning Resources, School of Languages, The University of Salford gives us his ‘view from the top’

How investing in the latest SONY Virtuoso language lab software has helped teachers and students at The University of Salford bring teaching and learning from classroom to VLE and back home.

Huntingdonshire Regional College (HRC) has an innovative IT and Media department that is using PlayStation & ‘Augmented Reality’ programmes to deliver BTEC Level 3 courses in IT and Games Development to meet the growing demand for exceptional university graduates in this area.

How Gloucestershire College found a way to re-engage with disengaged learners using the Sony PSP.

Students at Burnley College were instantly engaged by PlayStation in Education. PlayStation Portable (PSP) and augmented reality on Second Sight were introduced to lessons having a positive and motivational effect on learners. The technology brought educational content to life through video and 3D objects.

Phil Waters, Play Project co-ordinator at The Eden project’s innovative deployment of SONY Playstation (PSP) and its augmented reality programme Second Sight enhances childrens’ and their families access to natural spaces for play.

Lewisham CLC and Millwall FC planned a 3 day activity for 12-14 year olds tasking the students to produce an interactive stadium tour of Millwall FC.

How do you help students understand the concept of infinite space and time? With a Sony PSP of course!

Students from Kirkliston Primary School in Edinburgh were given banks of PSPs with SUMsS Online Maths content to make Maths learning more fun.

Read how Year 3 and 4 pupils from Barry Island Primary School designed and created their own interactive treasure hunt using Second Sight and SONY PlayStation.

A group of 7 to 11 year olds from Hawes Primary School have taken part in an innovative new project using augmented reality on Second Sight and Sony PlayStation at Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes.

When asked “Who likes writing?” at the start of the project, only 13 hands went up out of 23 children. When asked “Who has enjoyed writing about our eye pet?” all 23 hands in the class went up.

Sony Virtuoso is the language lab of choice at GDST. The Girls’ Day School Trust is the largest group of independent schools in the UK, with 4,000 staff and 20,000 students between the ages of three and 18.

New build school Richard Rose Morton Academy opened in September 2011. The Academy breaks new ground with focus and deployment of GBL across the curriculum.

A 3 month programme for unemployed youths using Game Based Learning gets results. All participants are on work placements or actively looking full time apprenticeships, with 2 enrolled on FE courses.

A community based programme across all of Hounslow schools HOTS (Hold onto Sports) used GBL as a tool to inspire learning and to stimulate interest in a wide variety of sports.

With the support of Sheffield CLC raising pupil attainment has been a core focus for the school . With innovative curriculum planning and the introduction of mobile and game based learning technologies the school has seen a significant impact on their results.

Read how one of Amman’s top Muslim Schools uses Sony Virtuoso language lab software as a ‘next generation’ technology platform to really engage their students.

Victorian Inventor Lord Armstrong’s estate in Northumberland is brought back to life through PlayStation and Augmented Reality software Second Sight.

NATS the global leader in air traffic control services has just agreed on an innovative training initiative for all UK air traffic controllers using digital language lab SONY Virtuoso.

‘Provides unmatched potential for learning and interaction’, PC Pro Magazine October 2012

How can we teach two levels in one back-to-back class? The answer is the language lab. It has always been there, but now, due to changing needs it is more viable than ever. In the lab environment, each student or group of students can have the teacher’s attention. In the lab, students can respond to oral, video and written presentations and share their responses with others. In the lab we can split our classes with a click and teach them simultaneously but at different levels and with different materials. This is the reality of teaching in today’s language labs. This is what can help teachers teach and students learn. Let’s take a closer look at what the Sony VirtuosoTM and Soloist® software can do to enhance and save our language programs.

SANSSpace allows students to listen to an audio file or watch a video clip, record a translation or respond to a series of audio and video questions on a PC, smartphone or tablet at home, on the bus or on campus.

How a top Academy is using Sony Virtuoso and SANSSpace for language and cross curricula learning both on and off campus.

Merchant Taylors’ have invested in SANSSpace to allow a much greater level of interoperability in the use of video. Developed from Sony Virtuoso language lab software, SANSSpace is much more of a cross curricula programme to manage video effectively. With SANSSpace a teacher can set a series of book marks (in text, audio or video) on top of any original audio and video file, and send these contextual comments to a cohort of students. In turn the students can (in their own time and of their own PCs, MACs or smart phones or iPads) respond to those teacher-driven videos by recording their own comments back – again in text audio or video. All this can indexed blended and linked back into the existing school web site.

UCLA has recently chosen SONY Virtuoso language lab software programme for the instructional technology to drive it’s globally accredited English language training programmes.

The University of Ulster is a pioneer and innovator in language learning allowing students to work both collaboratively from site to site and from home.

Mark English, Head of Modern Foreign Languages at North London Collegiate School sees language lab software as an essential in modern languages teaching.

Read how the The University of Greenwich chose SONY Virtuoso because of its case simulation potential.

In July 2010 the University of Portsmouth School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS) commissioned an internal audit to assess the benefits of all the major language lab solutions. Read more about the chosen vendor SONY Virtuoso here.

How the modern languages department in leading sixth form college, Hills Road in Cambridge successfully, planned, installed and now works with new language learning technology.

Colyton Grammar School’s Head of Languages, Tim Love explains how their new SONY Virtuoso language lab software has helped improve the quality of new resources & student enjoyment in language speaking

Colyton Grammar School’s Head of Languages, Tim Love explains how their new SONY Virtuoso language lab software has helped improve the quality of new resources & student enjoyment in language speaking

After an extensive tender programme where all major technologies were evaluated The University of Plymouth has elected to install SONY Virtuoso.

The school’s recent investment will provide dynamic and interactive access to language teaching for all students.

In an international school like Repton the learning of languages is a critica factor. Within the Languages Department there is a great emphasis placed on the learning of traditional european, arabic and mandarin languages.