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 ...
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 ...
Where angels fear to tread
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Activprimary, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Contributors, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, John Self, Promethean Products | Comments (4) »Where angels fear to tread I have forgotten exactly how many times in the past three years I have visited a school well resourced with interactive technology, only to find it underused or, even more disturbing, not used at all. Last ...
How do you balance every day teaching with testing?
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Activote, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Expression, Margaret Allen, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training, Theory Into Practice | Comments (4) »Teaching in a "SATS" year in the UK is always a challenge! The issue being how do you balance every day teaching needs with the continuous "eye" on that "week in May". The same issue exists elsewhere, such as ...
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 ...
An easy and effective teaching method that raises standards
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Early Years and Primary, Expression, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Professional Development and Training, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice | Comments (5) »Dr. Eric Mazur, from Harvard has developed and refined the concept of Peer Instruction - a straightforward method for teaching classes interactively. The method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally, and research indicates the very positive impact ...
Tasting the Soup. - Is this really formative assessment?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Expression, Inspirational ideas and people, Lisa Dubernard, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Theory Into Practice | Comments (2) »A while back, I had read this quote from Paul Black (1998): "When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment.” That made sense to me then, but somehow I just can’t ...
They are surely part of the future of education if used well.
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activote, Activprimary, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Pedagogy, Professional Development and Training, Your Stories | Comments (0) »In a recent article written for ICT for Education Nadeem Quereshi Year 6 teacher from Chevening CEP School, Sevenoaks, Kent, TH13 2SA wrote: Promethean Activboards are part of my every day teaching as I have been using them for a few ...
Promethean videos on TeacherTube… More professional development options
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Activboard, Activote, Activprimary, Activstudio, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Margaret Allen, Pedagogy, Peter Lambert, Professional Development and Training, Secondary Education | Comments (0) »There are now a bunch of easy to digest video tips and ideas on TeacherTube covering Activprimary and Activstudio. You can visit the Promethean section at: http://www.teachertube.com/uvideos.php?UID=46362 to see them all. From the feedback, people seem to enjoy these little clips ...
