AN innovative partnership to raise standards in education has been honoured in a national awards ceremony.
Visual applications specialist Direct Visual was presented with the Videoconferencing Project of the Year Award at a ceremony in Newport, Wales.
The company was acclaimed for its involvement in the Durham ICT Testbed Project - an initiative funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to show the impact investment in ICT can have on raising standards across the curriculum.
The judges said: "Direct Visual's project is a good example of low-cost videoconferencing systems being used for the benefit of school children in a rural area."
Direct Visual equipped 11 schools in County Durham with videoconferencing systems, interactive whiteboards and plasma screens.
The links have been used to teach foreign languages, to quiz a TV star and an MP and to find out about life and culture in Tanzania.
Co-ordinator of the Durham project Phill Smith said: "This new technology is opening up a whole range of exciting opportunities."
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