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Thanks to Batt O’Keefe’s decision to award €2.2 million to some primary schools for ICT equipment, the NCTE have decided to introduce some frameworks in order to spend all that money.  There are guidelines on projectors prices, laptop prices, printer prices and visualiser prices…but no mention of Interactive Whiteboards at all.  So, the question on | Read on…

I finally got my finger(!) on the TouchIT Interactive Whiteboard at the IPPN conference. For those of you who have been reading this blog, you’ll have noticed I’ve been waiting a couple of weeks to see this new and interesting development. Until now, the only IWB I knew of, where you could interact with your | Read on…

Why has eBeam not been promoted as much as Smart and Promethean? There’s both historic and capacity reasons for this.  Promethean have a “relationship” with the IPPN which means they are promoted hugely by them.  Also, both Smart and Promethean have huge teams behind them.  EBeam is used around the world, probably just as much, | Read on…

You may find the following teaching points helpful: Letter ‘c’ represents a /k/ sound when preceding the letters ‘a’, ‘o’ and ‘u’. Short words with short vowels usually end with ‘ck’ and this grapheme never begins words Letters e, i or y alert the reader that the preceding ‘c’ will represent the /s/ sound. ( | Read on…

The CESI Conference is a brilliant event if you’re in any way interested in ICT in Education. There’s loads of great talks and workshops. This year there’ll be talks on all sorts of things like Interactive Whiteboards, Blogging, Games Programming, Video, Mobile Phones and loads loads more. There’ll also be a load of people exhibiting | Read on…

So, I heard today that talks have broken down between our social partners and our “leader” Brian Cohen…. What will happen next? Let me predict the worse..

I’ve decided to start a new iniative on this web site called IWBFAQ, which stands for Interactive Whiteboards – Frequently Asked Questions.  Like Kat with phonics, I’ve noticed that I answer a lot of the same questions about Interactive Whiteboards and I thought that I could archive any answer I give on a miling list | Read on…