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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 | Read on…

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 Westcoast.  Prim-Ed were beginning to focus on two boards – the Genee Board and the Hitachi | Read on…

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 | Read on…

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 | Read on…

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 important, so I took | Read on…