I think it’s safe to say that Google changed the way we looked at maps. Before Google, maps served us with very few purposes. We used a map to find directions to places or we used maps to find features of places. Nowadays, maps can be used to find good restaurants, track [...]
Shapes and Interactive Whiteboards go hand in hand. Every IWB software includes a number of shapes that children can manipulate and use. A simple square can be stretched to make a rectangle, for example. All IWB software give you lines, rectangles and ellipses. Some give you other shapes such as triangles, [...]
One of the challenges of the modern era when answers are instant is giving children the skills to recall facts quickly – facts they probably do need to know. For example, if they are baking a load of cakes and the ingredients require 40 eggs, it would be useful to know instantly that buying [...]
Teaching maths is one of my favourite things to do in school. There’s so many resources that can be made or bought to support all the strands of the curriculum. The Interactive Whiteboard is one of those resources and in this lesson I’m going to show you how to create some early infant [...]
Science is one of the newer subjects on the primary school curriculum. As a former science graduate, it surprises me that it was only around ten years ago that it became a subject in primary schools in its own right. Ten years on, I don’t believe we’re doing enough of it. It [...]
According to Henry Ford, back in 1909, if you wanted to buy a car, you could have it in any colour as long as it was black. In the early days of motoring, one had very little choice if they wanted to buy a car as there weren’t that many models available. Nowadays there are [...]
As we showed in the last article, the TES iBoard is probably one of the best resources any teacher could ever have if they were teaching an infant class. However, the TES iBoard covers the full curriculum for KS1 in the UK, the equivalent of the Junior cycle at primary level here. As [...]
In January this year, I headed over to London to BETT for my first time to see what the world of educational technology offered. Little did I know that the world of educational technology is vast. Very vast. In fact, it’s so vast that there was no way to visit even a [...]
How I plan a lesson with an IWB
So your principal has bought everyone in the school interactive whiteboards. After wondering where the money came from – how many cakes were sold at the last cake sale? – you’re standing in front of something not too dissimilar to your previous whiteboard, except this one has wires coming out of [...]
Love them or hate them, Interactive Whiteboards are the number one resource on most Irish teachers’ wish lists for the classroom. Since starting my reviews of them over three years ago, the market has become completely saturated with different makes and models all competing to be the number one board in Ireland.
At a conservative estimate, [...]
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