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 ...
How much space is in an atom and why is nothing actually “solid”?
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Free Resources, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Professional Development and Training, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice | Comments (0) »Teacher's domain is a great place to go for resources. You can sign up for free in order to access hundreds of very high multimedia clips and collections covering Science, Engineering and Maths, etc. It is biased to ...
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 ...
Promethean flipcharts can be found in pan-European learning object repository
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Policy and Funding, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice, Web 2.0 | Comments (0) »The European schoolnet have just launched a new portal for educators -the MELT Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools. You can find open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education and Promethean, ...
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 ...
What are nearly quarter of billion kids using and could it have a place in your class?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Game Based Learning, Geek Corner, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Personalised Learning | Comments (2) »For this to be a geek post - it would have to be about something slightly quirky and attracting a small, select group - but the numbers I am looking at would suggest there is something radical going on that ...
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 ...
