Imex have had a busy year in Ireland. I met Peter Niblock, the MD of Imex, last year at a course I was giving. While Imex have an almost 75% market share of Interactive Whiteboards in Northern Ireland, their penetration down south was less so. Peter showed me the Imex board which I reviewed during … Read more
The lines have been blurred! Here is a projector that doubles up as an Interactive Whiteboard. Epson are an international company who have a base in Ireland and will be selling this board. According to some press release, this combined projector and IWB will “shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have … Read more
I haven’t reviewed an interactive whiteboard for some time now and after visiting the BETT show in London last week, I found some new boards to play with including this one, the IQBoard. Sourced by a company called Mediascene who are working in partnership with Sight and Sound, (who sell the excellent Teamboard), I had … Read more
The Genee Powerboard is incredibly similar to the Hitachi Starboard. It uses exactly the same infrared technology which allows the user to interact with the board using either their finger, pen or any other pointy object. Its software is also reasonably good. Like the Hitachi, you can use your hand to swipe the screen to … Read more
The great thing about blogging compared to, for example, print media is that if you write something that’s inaccurate, you can go back and make changes. My first impression of the Traceboard when I met it two years ago was that it was a Smartboard clone. I gave it a fairly average review and it … Read more
Even though there’s not too many schools who have the luxury of making a decision like this, there are some schools who have kitted out all their classrooms with IWBs and are thinking about getting one for the staffroom. But why would anyone want a potentially €3,000 piece of equipment in their staffroom? What would … Read more
I was randomly browsing the web and came across a web site I’d never seen before called wiiboard.ie. Apparently the author of http://www.schoolsites.ie and some other business folk have come together to promote the use of the wiimote interactive whiteboard in schools. Right now there’s very little on the web site except for a couple … Read more
Just before I published the June Interactive Whiteboard review, I came across the Teamboard IWB. I said that as soon as I had some time to play around with it, I’d give it a review. I contacted the company who sell the board, Sight and Sound, who are based in Dublin, and they lent me … Read more
Just when I thought I’d reviewed every Interactive Whiteboard, there ever was and along comes another one. Except, this one has been around as long as any of them. In fact, this board has a 75% market share in Northern Ireland. The board is called InterWrite and it’s being sold by a company called IMEX. … Read more
Promethean released their ActivInspire edition of their Interactive Whiteboard software. As I’ve said before, this piece of software can be bought for any interactive whiteboard and not just the Promethean board. At the minute it costs £99 sterling for the full version but existing ActivPrimary users can download it for free. So, what’s new? To … Read more