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Schools-business collaboration recommended – Gonski report

School-business collaboration and extra-curricular activities are effective forms of engagement to help achieve student learning growth, a major education review, overseen by David Gonski, reported.

The review, Through Growth to Achievement – Report of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools, by The Department of Education and Training, included submissions and feedback from almost 300 education organisations ...

Saving memories and building empathy

I attended Tim England’s ‘The Facts About Dementia’ yesterday. What wonderful work he is doing in the Ku-ring-gai area, educating the public on dementia, helping families with respite services and lobbying for dementia friendly communities.

The statistics of a new case being diagnosed every 6 minutes is horrifying, but the fact that many people and families suffer in silence, with no ...

Future Schools conference - The Family Book Project

Bookform’s Family Book Project program was introduced to educators at the Future Schools conference in Melbourne last week.

Schools from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia saw Principals, teachers, and Technology educators network with the education department, industry thought leaders and each other to research the latest in teaching and ‘EduTech’ Digital Technologies.

Digital Technologies will be a compulsory component of the ...

Bookform pitch winner at Fishburners

The Problem

There is a massive problem in the world people. It is in every country, every language and every culture.

When someone passes away they take a lifetime of stories, experiences and knowledge with them. And every generation seems to regret not knowing more about their parents, grandparents and extended family.

Schools have been getting kids to do family ...

75 year old story becomes bestselling book & movie

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, launched this month, was created by Heather Morris, when a friend-of-a-friend said she knew a man with an remarkable life story. Heather was not a professional writer, but had an interest in real-life stories for her screen-writing hobby. That manuscript has now become a best-selling book and Hollywood movie option. Further to the book, I was ...

The Family Book Project

I created Bookform to enable anyone to easily and affordably collate the stories and knowledge of their life into an easy to share and keep legacy product. I wanted people from different generations or backgrounds to see the world through someone else’s eyes. And with this new perspective they would develop empathy and understanding of other people’s worldview.

I’ve had ...

My Startup to flip, not pivot

I launched Bookform 15 months ago, with all the optimism of a determined new founder, oblivious to the harsh realities and the long haul of good business.

The burning problem I was going to solve was: how to save personal life stories, knowledge and culture, affordably and en masse in a modern format.

Bookform creates a digital and printed book product ...

My 1st customer – 1 year on

I met one of my first customers yesterday, Joan Farrar, and I got to ask firsthand what she liked about using Bookform, what motivated her to create her memoir, her writing routines, fears, struggles and triumphs.

Joan is exactly the person I created Bookform for; she is an active and engaged retiree who, in between family, volunteering and her interests ...

Kids publish books & schools raise funds

Children discover a love of reading and writing by creating their own books using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and schools uncover a new revenue stream.

Bookform software is making it easier than ever to create a printable digital book with voice-to-text Google AI and collaboration, enabling many people to easily build a book together. With photos and any language.

Example: School ...