Broadcast live on 6 May 2020 as part of the SoA @ Home Festival.

Explore the ways in which digital publishing can be used to enhance learning and the unique functionality the available platforms can offer.

With Ian Eagleton from The Reading Realm, Nikki Gamble from Just Imagine and Helen Parker from Rising Stars, in discussion with Chair of the SoA’s Educational Writers Group Ignaty Dyakov.

Ian Eagleton is the director of The Reading Realm, a resource writer and also teaches in a primary school part-time.

Helen Parker is a Senior Publisher for Rising Stars (part of Hodder Education Group) and is responsible for commissioning print and digital resources for primary schools in the UK and overseas. She worked previously as a Publisher for Pearson Education and Richmond/Santillana, and as a freelance commissioner and writer for companies such as OUP, Collins Education, and Scholastic.

Nikki Gamble
Formerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 35 years’ experience, Nikki is now the Director of Just Imagine, an organisation that seeks to promote reading, writing and oracy through high-quality literature. Nikki continues to work extensively in schools across the UK