08 March 2010
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 innappropriate apostrophes scattered all over the place, it’s not working – or should that be “its not [...]
Posted in English/Literacy, Reviews0 Comments
05 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 who had bought the selling rights from Prim-Ed. Prim-Ed were beginning to focus on two boards [...]
Posted in Interactive Whiteboards8 Comments
03 March 2010
One might ask why it’s taken me until 2010 to review the eBeam. The eBeam is probably the third best known interactive solution in the education market. Back in the days when there were really only two companies fighting for the right to sell Interactive Whiteboards in Ireland, (Smart and Promethean), the eBeam came along [...]
Posted in Interactive Whiteboards2 Comments
01 March 2010
The first lesson of the week was given by Mrs Cole, she introduced the idea of Storyboarding to the class and they took to the idea very quickly. First, she showed them the example of “The Boy from Mercury” explaining how a storyboarder will add captions to the picture so that the Director knows what [...]
Posted in Curriculum0 Comments
01 March 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Curriculum, Maths, Reviews1 Comment
28 February 2010
It took me ages to think of a headline for this. In case you haven’t heard, one of my favourite web 2.0 tools is going through some legal difficulties with regards to its name. Wordle.net is (or was?) a tool for creating lovely word clouds. We, as teachers, quickly saw the educational benefits and used [...]
Posted in Technology1 Comment
27 February 2010
Portable Interactive Whiteboards like the eBeam and Mimio really captured teachers a few years ago when permanent IWBs cost around €6,000. Costing about €2,500 back then, these boards were reasonably affordable solutions. We learned that it was probably better not to move the boards from room to room and we were better off leaving them [...]
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26 February 2010
Fis is under way! Lesson 5 was completed and the reaction so far from the children has been positive. Our school website already had one of the pupils blogging about it, can I quote ” This last month in the school has been the best for 5th and 6th, there has been loads on..Fis is a [...]
Posted in Arts, Curriculum, English/Literacy, Featured, SESE/SPHE, Technology0 Comments
26 February 2010
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. Tweet This Post
Posted in Events, Interactive Whiteboards2 Comments
24 February 2010
Another month, another Interactive Whiteboard on the market and the good news is that this is another good one. The Intech Easy Board (IR) is being sold by a newish company called Neux, led by Denis Dolan, a man with several years experience selling audio-visual equipment. Denis has many contacts in China and he has [...]
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