Memory Bank is a wholesale provider of technology products and services. They supply companies with thousands of products but don’t sell directly themselves. They asked me to have a look at a product that they believe would be useful to schools – a Network Attached Storage device, or NAS to those who like abbreviations. So … Read more
Vincent Hyland Learning is a Kerry-based company founded by the man himself. Vincent is a multi-talented filmmaker, artist and musician and will be featuring on RTE’s “Living the Wildlife” in May 2010. Vincent sent me a copy of his DVD, “Puffins” from the Learn to Care scheme, a set of programmes he has developed himself. … Read more
Vincent Hyland Learning is a Kerry-based company founded by the man himself. Vincent is a multi-talented filmmaker, artist and musician and will be featuring on RTE’s “Living the Wildlife” in May 2010. Vincent sent me a copy of his DVD, “Puffins” from the Learn to Care scheme, a set of programmes he has developed himself. … Read more
Every so often, a piece of software comes along which tries to steal the crown from Promethean’s Activ Software series. Easyteach from RM was the last challenger and it wasn’t bad. It had many advantages over the Promethean software – with lots of add-ons for maths, phonics, science and even a dance mat! However, although … Read more
Every so often, a piece of software comes along which tries to steal the crown from Promethean’s Activ Software series. Easyteach from RM was the last challenger and it wasn’t bad. It had many advantages over the Promethean software – with lots of add-ons for maths, phonics, science and even a dance mat! However, although … Read more
I spent some time looking at SESE Interactive, the latest piece of software from the educational software company, Learning Horizons. Learning Horizons are hoping to capitalise on the success of some of their other software, including Sounds to Words. They have brought in the expertise of practicing teachers to produce this software which aims to … Read more
I spent some time looking at SESE Interactive, the latest piece of software from the educational software company, Learning Horizons. Learning Horizons are hoping to capitalise on the success of some of their other software, including Sounds to Words. They have brought in the expertise of practicing teachers to produce this software which aims to … Read more
How do you make grammar more fun for kids? That’s the question that’s never been successfully answered. Teachers seem resigned to “just getting through it” and hoping that it will stick. From the number of shop signs with inappropriate apostrophes scattered all over the place, it’s not working – or should that be “its not … Read more
How do you make grammar more fun for kids? That’s the question that’s never been successfully answered. Teachers seem resigned to “just getting through it” and hoping that it will stick. From the number of shop signs with inappropriate apostrophes scattered all over the place, it’s not working – or should that be “its not … Read more
BrainSnack comes in a very big box full of big shiny cards with problems that are supposed to challenge your brain. According to Prim-Ed, “BrainSnack will work the brain and amaze the eye with 300 graded problem-solving cards.” So, were my eyes amazed? Was my brain worked? Well, I’m not that important, so I took … Read more