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Jon Howard

Executive Product Manager, Children's Future Media

Blog posts in total 8

Posts

Own It: Wellbeing and isolation update

Monday 06 April 2020, 10:50

Jon Howard explains how the Own It app has been updated to help with children's concerns during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Own It, the app: Six technical challenges

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:34

A technical background to some of the features in the new children's app Own It.

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BBC Three launches new Top Ten Comedy Kit

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 10:55

The Top Ten Comedy Kit is an extension of the award-winning BBC Digital Maker Kits - a system that has already produced game makers for Doctor Who, Children in Need and Technobabble; music visual creators for BBC Introducing and Ten Pieces; and storytelling tools for EastEnders and Blue Peter.

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Going for Gold with Pudsey’s Gigantic Game

Thursday 29 October 2015, 15:43

Pudsey’s Gigantic Game uses a simple drag and drop interface which enables s to immediately create levels in styles from platformers to flying games and in locations from underwater to outer space. Our hero Pudsey can be driving his car, donning his cape or even bouncing around the world

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Make It Technobabble kit: from consumers to creators

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 13:26

The Make It Technobabble game maker kit is built using web standards – HTML5/Javascript. By building as a HTML5 webapp now means that as the kit matures it can take advantage of optimisations and new developments to come on the web.

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The CBeebies Playtime App

Thursday 15 August 2013, 09:18

As the CBeebies Playtime app launches, Jon Howard explains how the team built the app, implemented learning benefits into the featured games, and how it’s been designed for a dual audience of parents and their young children.

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CBBC Connected Studio: 10 problems to solve

Monday 17 September 2012, 16:09

Mobiles, tablets and connected TVs are here. They form an ecosystem of web connected devices that provide the potential for amazing experiences. The ability to share an experience across devices brings great possibilities, but also responsibilities. As part of its brief the CBBC Connected st...

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CBBC Game Workshop at Games Britannia

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 16:00

I'm Jon Howard, Development Manager for Games in Children's Future Media. As part of my role I run the Children's Future Media Games Stream which is responsible for developing all of the games on CBBC and CBeebies websites - overseeing agency builds as well as making many hugely successful in-...

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