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Rage Against the Machine were the first non X-Factor Christmas number one in the UK charts for years thanks to an online petition on Facebook.  Millions of people are being petitioned to help the victims of the Haitian disaster this week through the use of social media.  In a much smaller and local way, an | Read on…

Prim-Ed used to be the distributors of Promethean IWBs before Clarity came along and they did a brilliant job selling them with approximately 60% of schools choosing Promethean boards over others.  I put this down to the excellent salesteam so with Prim-Ed now reselling two different boards now, the Hitachi Starboard and the Genee Powerboard, | Read on…

There’s a really interesting conversation going on on the CESI mailing list right now.  It started off with the incredible news that the Irish government is spending almost half a million euro in licencing fees for products available to all Irish schools through the Broadband scheme.  These products are two encyclopaedia – the World Book | Read on…

The CESI mailing list is a great source of information.  All this snow is keeping us inside so I’m getting loads of information.  Today a contributor informed us of a potential way of supporting local business by working around the purchasing framework.  I’ll paste a response he got from the ICT Policy Unit in the | Read on…

If you were to ask Irish teachers what web site their classroom couldn’t survive without, it’s likely you would be given the answer, “Sparklebox”.  Although Sparklebox is a UK web site, it is used by hundreds of teachers everyday to download and print posters, signs and classroom resources.  Sparklebox was a pay-per-download site up until | Read on…

Promethean Planet membership has passed the 1/2 million mark according to a press release from Promethean Ireland today, representing a doubling in membership in one year. It’s a great site with thousands of great downloads so I’m not surprised that so many people have joined it.  It’s got loads of “premium” content from fairly big | Read on…

As I’m not a teacher or a subject specialist – in fact I run my own business – my blog is aimed at helping the schools we work with, and it may be helpful to the visitors here. (In my blog you’ll see a fair emphasis on free digital imaging tools – I’m colour blind | Read on…