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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Activclassroom and Teacher Retention
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Inspirational ideas and people, Lisa Dubernard, Pedagogy, Policy and Funding, Professional Development and Training, Research and Evidence, Special Education | Comments (0) »One of the most critical issues education faces is the hiring and retaining of excellent teachers. In fact, teacher retention is typically one of the key goals for most school districts as a well as individual schools. Below you will ...
A lesson in effective presentation at the Hoover Dam…
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Mark Robinson, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning | Comments (0) »You have to love learning to be a teacher. Like many of my other educator friends - I like holidays where I visit museums or learn new things. This time, my leave took me to Nevada & Arizona and the majestic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
