January 30th, 2009 
aaa Good news for Anseo.net’s sponsors, SmartBoard – one of their resellers beat all the competition to become the cheapest fully-featured Interactive Whiteboard Solution. Liosdoire Computers, based in Co. Kerry, are a very well-known company, which opened in 2002.
Lisdoire Computers – the cheapest IWBs in Ireland
They have been doing the education exhibition circuit since I became aware of Interactive Whiteboards and their salesmanship and service is individual and, as far as I could see, very competitive. (more…)
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Ok, so it’s not going to be free, but Promethean’s new software, to be released in March can be summed up in one word – sexy. Daryl, their software guy, allowed me to have a sneak preview at it at IPPN and there are some excellent improvements. The other great news is that if you own a different IWB, you can download the software restriction-free for €99. For a piece of software that was up until now worth (in my estimation) about €400-500, this is a bargain. 
Are my dreams about to come true? Last summer I met with two Promethean representatives and I spoke to them about SmartBoard’s Notebook software and advised them that they offered it for free. I suggested to them that ActivPrimary may do something similar never thinking it would happen as it is one of the best pieces of software for Interactive Whiteboards around. A collegue of mine emailled with the following statement from Ian Curtis, the head of Promethean in the UK and Ireland: 
A principal recently contacted me to ask for my advice on suitable software for 4th class pupils. I thought I would share my response on Anseo.net as it may help others in a similar situation. I was happy to see that this principal was still using a piece of software that I developed with Robbie O’Leary a few years ago. Below is my reply.
When I began Jolly Phonics I was a little unsure about the order as I expected the cildren to find the digraphs difficult, however, I went ahead and was delighted to find that they simply accepted that a digraph might be used to represent a sound just as a single letter might be. 
There’s only one week left before the Irish launch of the new TouchIT Interactive Whiteboard and frankly I’m very excited. This could be the best IWB yet! So far, there has only been one IWB that lets you interact with your finger and it costs over €5,000. This one costs half that and appears to be just as good or even better.
I recently surveyed 100 teachers – I wanted more but I think there’s a limit on 
