Whole group extended writing on the Activboard
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activprimary, Activstudio, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Mark Robinson, Mobile Learning, Personalised Learning, Secondary Education | Comments (2) »I have used low cost, portable student devices like the Alphasmart™ with students for years and it is likely there may be some in your school or class. Generally I has used them for independent writing activities, but the problem of ...
Promethean on Teacher Tube - Videos and top tips to add to your own sites and blogs
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activote, Activprimary, Activstudio, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, Pedagogy, Peter Lambert, Professional Development and Training, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice, Web 2.0 | Comment (1) »Tens of thousands of you have been finding the Promethean "top tips" on teachertube and it is now one of the top Professional Development channels on the service. These are the same top tips found on Promethean Planet but you can ...
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 ...
Interactive Projectors?
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activstudio, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, Pedagogy, Professional Development and Training, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education | Comments (0) »Going into schools, as I do, Headteachers, ICT managers, are so excited in wanting to show you what their teachers are doing with their iwbs (interactive whiteboards). I have to say I love being able to watch a class totally ...
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 ...
Mission to Mars - help us find our spaceship
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson | Comments (0) »If you have some interest in Science you may be following the Phoenix mission to Mars. If you were not up late (in the UK) last weekend, then you missed something very exciting. Live date (telemetry) was coming over the Internet ...
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. ...
An immersive digital learning environment
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Peter Lambert | Comment (1) »Last week I was fortunate enough to visit Brichta Elementary school in Tucson and saw a school totally immersed in technology. http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Brichta/ Promethean boards in most classrooms, but also a mixed economy of both laptops and desktops and both Apple Macs ...
