There is more to receiving an education than learning enough to pass tests
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Inspirational ideas and people, Your Stories | Comment (1) »First Sparks - Education for Development is a project sponsored by Promethean along with Oxford University Press and Families Worldwide. Every child deserves the right to an education. Yet in some countries, access to teaching and learning is a privilege to ...
And the winner is! ACTIVOTE in Cumbria
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Inspirational ideas and people, John Self, Your Stories | Comments (0) »Activote is not just a tool that should stay confined to the classroom, it has a vast variety of uses in many settings. Recently, at the Cumbrian ICT conference at Reghed in Penrith in the UK, 120 teachers used activote to ...
Going to NECC? Check out this “Using Google Earth with Activstudio” workshop!
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activote, Activstudio, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Game Based Learning, Google, Inspirational ideas and people, Pedagogy, Web 2.0, Your Stories | Comments (0) »Gail Soriano from Avoca West School has a presentation planned for NECC at San Antonio...."Choose Your Own Adventure in the Rain Forest" The presentation is on Monday, June 30, 2008 from 2:00-3:00 in HGCC 214 A/B Gail and her co-presenter will be ...
Chinese and English schools connect through their Activboards
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Inspirational ideas and people, Web 2.0, Your Stories | Comments (4) »Yesterday Lambeth Academy, London and Houhai Primary school, Shenzhen had a live link-up using Promethean's flipcharts software to deliver a lesson on different shapes and the names of these in each other's languages - the British pupils had their lesson ...
Interactive Whiteboards in Early Years
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activprimary, Classroom Ideas, Contributors, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Laura O'Halloran, Pedagogy, Promethean Products, Your Stories | Comments (0) »A couple of months back I had the pleasure of visiting The Kennford Playbox - a newly opened pre-school in Devon, which is the first part of a project to create a new community building - the Kenn Centre ...
Don’t let distance bother you in your Activclassroom
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Mobile Learning, Web 2.0, Your Stories | Comments (0) »It is great to hear how you can help all the children in your care, but this story from Laura Smith from Avon Lake City Schools is really heart-warming. One of her students has dialysis 3 days a week but instead ...
The lengths people go to….
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activprimary, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, Your Stories | Comment (1) »Having seen the Promethean interactive whiteboards in her daughter's school (St Mary & St Pauls First School, Harting). Jo saw the benefits for 2 ½ year old daughter Skye who when she saw the board became very sociable and animated. ...
Is it Education Reform or Deform with Buzzwords?
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Gautam Saha, Pedagogy, Policy and Funding, Professional Development and Training, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice, Your Stories | Comment (1) »As I reflect back on my new career of 5 years as a public high school teacher I cannot resist but think of all the professional development workshops that I had to attend. I also recall all the graduate classes ...
Do your children take Education for granted?
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, Your Stories | Comments (3) »Promethean is sponsoring two schools out in Africa. Read more here http://www.firstsparks.co.uk Your school could become involved : http://www.firstsparks.co.uk/help.html These schools will not be getting Activboards or anything similar, it is about our wanting to support Education more broadly. Anybody got any suggestions as to ...
Teachers enhancing the technology
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activprimary, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Margaret Allen, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Your Stories | Comments (0) »When talking to teachers I often state that the technology should be invisible and that it is merely a tool to enhance the teaching and learning in the classroom. I am beginning to think that actually I should put that another ...
