Archive | July, 2010

Review: The Comprehension Box (Prim-Ed)

17 Jul

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When a large box arrived on my doorstep, I got very excited! It wasn’t my birthday, not my anniversary, but I was convinced I was getting a present of some sort.  It was heavy too!  And although it turned out not to be a present of any sort, but a product to review, I was | Read on…

An introduction to Interactive Whiteboards

14 Jul

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For the last few years I have given courses on using Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom.  This year I was in Kilkenny city.  Normally on a course like this, very few of the participants would have had interactive whiteboards in their school.  This meant that we usually spent most of the week learning about the | Read on…

Promethean wins 3 awards for excellence

14 Jul

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Promethean has won three prestigious awards from the Worlddidac Foundation for excellence in education.  Promethean’s specialised ActivInspire education software, ActivExpression Learner Response System and teacher web community, Promethean Planet, were all honoured in the ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ category.  These awards, which are held biannually, were judged by a jury of teachers and industry experts | Read on…

S.A.L.T Teaching children how to deal with conflict.

7 Jul

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The S.A.L.T. Programme is an innovative programme, specially developed for the Irish Curriculum and is aligned to the key strands of the SPHE (Primary) Programme: Myself, Myself and Others, Relating to Others,Myself and the World. Through The S.A.L.T. Programme, children will learn what conflict is, what it feels like to be in conflict and how | Read on…

Press Release: Promethean Partners with Bloodhound 1,000mph Supersonic Car Project

7 Jul

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Promethean has become the official interactive education technology partner of BLOODHOUND SSC (Supersonic Car) Project.  BLOODHOUND is an engineering project to design and build the first supersonic car capable of achieving 1,000 mph and smash the World Land Speed Record. The three year project is led by Richard Noble OBE and Wing Commander Andy Green | Read on…

Kilkenny IWB Course

5 Jul

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As some of you might be aware, for the last few years I have been given summer courses on Interactive Whiteboards. Each year, I invite every company who sell IWBs to supply me with their demo boards and let me use them with the participants on the course. At the end of the course, I | Read on…