Puffins by Vincent Hyland
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. […]
New common file format for IWBs
From Teachnet Blog (http://blog.teachnet.ie/?p=1970) The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) have announced that all major interactive whiteboard vendors have agreed to make their educational content available in the UK in a common file format (CFF), a move that will make IWB content much more accessible by allowing teachers to share content and resources […]
Interactive Whiteboard App
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Interactive Whiteboard Irish Review March 2010
There are now 24 different interactive whiteboards available in Ireland being sold by lots of different companies. It’s getting quite saturated out there. Last time I did the review, I was pondering on the implications of Promethean’s new distributors Westcoast. Prim-Ed were beginning to focus on two boards – the Genee Board and the Hitachi […]
Interactive Whiteboard Review
The March 2010 Interactive Whiteboard review will be published on Friday, March 5th at 12pm. There are 24 IWBs now reviewed on the list and there are a number of changes since November 2009.
TraceBoard Interactive Whiteboard
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 […]
Promethean Planet increases its Irish membership
Promethean Planet’s membership in Ireland surged by more than 150% to nearly 5,500 members according to a press release I was sent today. This means that Ireland has the fifth largest membership base in the world for Promethean Planet, only trailing the much larger populations of the US, UK, Australia and France. Promethean Planet has […]
Teachnet Podcast – Interactive Whiteboards
This week I was invited by Teachnet to record a podcast for their series on the topic of Interactive Whiteboards. I have previously spoken about IWBs in my school on an earlier poscast with two other teachers but this time it was just me speaking about my own experiences and my own recommendations on IWBs. […]
The first sub €2K short throw IWB
If there’s one educational company I admire the most in Ireland, it’s Rainbow Education who are based in Co. Wexford. Started by Martin Pender and his wife a few years ago selling general educational resources, their business, I believe is one of the most innovative in the country. Rainbow is now the main seller of […]
Feedback from NCTE Training of Primary Principals
Today I attended a seminar for primary school principals, which was given by the National Council for Technology in Education, (NCTE), in Kilkenny. I was very interested in this seminar as I believed that I would be hearing all about the €150m grant that was recently announced. Although this was indeed the case, the NCTE […]