This item was sent to us by EducationCity.com who claim to be the world's leading online educational resource used by teachers in their lessons and parents to support their child's learning at home.

There's been massive interest in EducationCity.com from schools across Aberdeen following the launch of a working partnership between the City's Education Department and EducationCity.com.

One quarter of the City's sixty-five primary and special schools now subscribe to EducationCity.com and a further two-thirds are currently trialling it. The City's Education Department is seeking to encourage all teachers to implement ICT in their classrooms by using exemplary products.

Lilian Lindsay from the ICT development unit explains: "This initiative allows us to do two things at the same time, encourage inexperienced computer using staff to make significant moves to implement ICT in their classroom, and also get them using a quality product which is tailored to the Scottish curriculum guidelines."

"One of the benefits of using EducationCity.com is that it gives a 'sense of direction' to teachers. Its activities are structured to link to specific learning objectives and by their very nature are therefore progressive."

"We're confident that when teachers see the impact of ICT on their children, how products such as EducationCity.com engage and enthuse them, then they in turn will become more encouraged to go further with their implementation of ICT across other areas of the curriculum."

"Another of the benefits of using EducationCity.com, an online product as opposed to a CD based product, is the way it stores each child's actions and performance. It's so vital for teachers to be able to track the progress of each child and see either where they need additional help or whether they need to progress to other learning objectives."