Another company taking your old mobiles…

Old mobile phones must be worth a fortune!  Everyone from charities to businesses are looking for old mobiles, which they’ll happily trade in for new stuff.  400 phones can now get you an interactive whiteboard.  Most fully kitted out Interactive Whiteboards cost around €2,000 before companies stick their profits on so your old mobile must […]

A Case Study from Gifts4Fones

Gifts4Fones and the Jack and Jill Foundation have been in the news lately due to their similar ventures in schools.  Both organisations are offering schools the opportunity to swap old mobile phones for Interactive Whiteboards.  Gifts4fones are working with Smartboard and Jack and Jill are working with Clarity, who supply Promethean boards.  However, Gifts4fones are […]

Press Release: Ivan Smyth, Toomey Audio Visual

TOOMEY AUDIO VISUAL & WWW.GIFTS4FONES.IE I am delighted to announce that Toomey Audio Visual & SMARTBoard have teamed up with www.gifts4fones.ie to offer SMARTBoard classroom technologies in exchange for old mobile phones. We all have old mobile phones lying around at home so why not organise a collection amongst your school or college friends, club […]

How Technology saved my Wife

I know this isn’t strictly an educational post, (until the end),  but I think it might highlight a few lessons we as teachers can learn about the power of technology and how we can use it.  It also, I think, is a nice story. Last night, after the CESI meet in the digital hub, halfway […]