Archive | November, 2009

ICT Scoil – sharing IWB links

4 Nov

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Faced with the exciting prospect of having a new Smart Interactive Whiteboard in my classroom in September I took it upon myself to become armed with a host of internet resources. I opened up Google and typed in “Interactive Whiteboard resources” only to find that there were 1,480,000 links. Where to start? There is a | Read on…

Responses from my post about saying "no" to strike action

1 Nov

        

This is copied and pasted from the responses I received regarding the reasons I will not give the INTO my mandate for strike action.  There were 3 pages of responses within 2 days, during our holidays. Wow… didn’t expect so many responses so quickly.  I’d like to respond to them if I may because I | Read on…

Interactive Whiteboard Review: November 2009

1 Nov

        

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed the Interactive Whiteboards on the Irish market and there’s been a number of major changes. The biggest news for me was the big change in distribution of Promethean boards, which are no longer sold by Prim-Ed. There are now 18 completely different types of IWB on my review. | Read on…