Thanks to Russel Tarr (@russelltarr on Twitter) for sharing a link to over 100 videos from Teachers TV that give practical starting points for lessons using an Interactive Whiteboard. The videos themselves don’t show Interactive Whiteboard in action. Rather they are stimuli for children to begin discussing a subject For example, I looked at the … Read more
Today the iPad is being launched in Ireland. So while you are queuing outside your local Currys or PC World to get your hands on one, I thought I’d give you something to read! I bought my iPad in America in April. The 3G model wasn’t out at the time and I bought the cheapest … Read more
Liosdoire will be selling the KODAK Playsport camcorder ideal for the Classroom and outdoors which can record in YouTube resolution for easy uploading without having to go through the hassle of a conversion process. Kodak’s upcoming PlaySport video camera will target the YouTube generation who lead active lifestyles, boasting an underwater capture mode of up … Read more
The iPad will be launched on Friday in Ireland. I’ve written some articles about iPads in the classroom. Must have app for me: Toy Story – great for reading, recording, rewarding and lots of other words beginning with “re!”
Promethean has won three prestigious awards from the Worlddidac Foundation for excellence in education. Promethean’s specialised ActivInspire education software, ActivExpression Learner Response System and teacher web community, Promethean Planet, were all honoured in the ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ category. These awards, which are held biannually, were judged by a jury of teachers and industry experts … Read more
Promethean has become the official interactive education technology partner of BLOODHOUND SSC (Supersonic Car) Project. BLOODHOUND is an engineering project to design and build the first supersonic car capable of achieving 1,000 mph and smash the World Land Speed Record. The three year project is led by Richard Noble OBE and Wing Commander Andy Green … Read more
As some of you might be aware, for the last few years I have been given summer courses on Interactive Whiteboards. Each year, I invite every company who sell IWBs to supply me with their demo boards and let me use them with the participants on the course. At the end of the course, I … Read more
With only a few days to go before the summer holidays, I thought it might help if I let people know about Interactive Whiteboard summer courses. I’ll be giving one in Kilkenny this year but there’s plenty of others available, some of which are online. I’d also love to hear some feedback about IWB courses … Read more
iFestival 2010 is taking place in the Central Library, Ilac Centre from the 9th to the 26th of June 2010. I’ve been following some of the tweets about the exhibition and I’d be recommending people check out the talk by Anne McMorrough and Ban Ryan who are exploring the use of Nintendo in the classroom,
One of the criticisms that teachers had of Scoilnet’s services such as the World Map, the Britannica Encyclopaedia and the Irish Times Archive was that we could only access them at school. Furthermore, schools could only access these services if they had a decent Broadband connection from the NCTE. The good news is that the … Read more