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Hi all, To encourage as many people as possible to take part, we've put everything you need to enter on www.hanzihero.com No need to download the app - just visit the website and wait for inspiration! Any questions, just drop me a line at [log in to unmask] Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Jolliffe <[log in to unmask]> Date: 24 June 2016 at 16:34 Subject: Hanzi competition for kids and teachers … win up to $5000 To: [log in to unmask] Hello! First, many thanks to Katherine and the team for a great two days at the IOE CI teacher conference last week. I met lots of you and had some great conversations. Thank you for your encouragement! Second, I’d like to announce that our competition <http://www.hanzihero.com/win-5000.html> is now OPEN! As you may know, we launched *Hanzi Hero* last year – it’s a comic strip app for learning Chinese characters. We had lots of good feedback <http://www.hanzihero.com/press--reviews.html> from academics, teachers and kids but it’s taken a while to raise the money we needed to get word out and create more content. Now we have – and we’d like to get as many kids and teachers as possible involved in our next chapter. If you or your pupils love comic strips and/or *hanzi*, just tell us what you think happens next in the story. It’s a great project for the summer and you could win up to $5000 (find out how <http://www.hanzihero.com/win-5000.html>). Teams can enter too so you could join forces with your kids or with another school. Do forward to parents, teachers outside the UK and anyone else who might be interested - kids who like manga/manhua and kids in China learning English who enjoy writing stories. The app is free to download while the competition is running (iPad only until version 2.0 – sorry!) so get it from the app store <https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/hanzi-hero/id943358996?mt=8>. Or have a look at the preview <http://www.hanzihero.com/lesson-1.html> of the first chapter at our site. *And tell us what you think …* As an app developer, I love to hear what’s going on with technology in the classroom, what you need and what the kids enjoy. If you like *Hanzi Hero* do please keep in touch (email b <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]) and help us make it even better. And if you don’t like it, please tell us why!! Here are some things you told us at the conference that we hope to fix in the next version: · include a way of getting feedback on pupil performance so we can set Hanzi Hero as homework (definitely) · speed it up – sometimes the story moves too slowly (thinking about that) · allow users to input hanzi by writing with their fingers in the test (definitely) · how are you going to do really complicated *hanzi* (wait and see!) · more hanzi – we need at least 100 to make it worth using in school · what about Android and web versions? (yes, for sure!) Thanks very much and look forward to hearing from you. -- Ben Jolliffe Email: b <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] Mobile +44 (0)7912 202 812 Office +44 (0) 1373 837 258 This email and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may be confidential, the subject of legal, professional or other privilege and are intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, dissemination, copying, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received it in error you should take no action based on its contents except to please reply to this email highlighting the error. Three Tall Cranes Ltd cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended, please contact the sender immediately. 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If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended, please contact the sender immediately. Three Tall Cranes Ltd is registered in England under Company Number 08069113. Registered Office for both companies: The Old School House, Cloford, Frome, Somerset BA11 4PQ