Autonomous personal learning networks for language teachers (aPLaNet) is a two year EU project funded by the Life Long Learning Programme designed to encourage language teachers who don't normally use social media in their professional life to see the value... ...
This is a presentation I made using Prezi for a group of teacher in schools in Carlow. It outlines 10 small ways that ICT can be used in classrooms using a projector or Interactive Whiteboard. The ...
Languages South East are delighted to announce details of speakers and workshops for this year’s ICT and Languages conference. Taking place at Southampton University on 25th-26th February, ililc 2012 is THE must attend event of the year. A smorgasbord of... ...
The last year in Ireland has been reasonably quiet in the world of Interactive Whiteboards as most schools are now equipped with them thanks to some much needed government funding in 2010. However, Hitachi have come up with an ...
As a follow up to my participation in last month's innovative ICT Day at Medina High School on the Isle of Wight, I spent last Monday afternoon with the MFL department looking at ways they could use a class set... ...
Do you use dry wipe markers on your Interactive Whiteboard? For the last few years, Promethean and Smart, the two biggest Interactive Whiteboard companies in the world, had been saying, “absolutely not!” This allowed smaller manufacturers get their hands on a slice of the market as they released IWBs that could double-up as normal whiteboards. ...
So Promethean have finally entered the world of touch technology! The new Activboard 500 Pro series is Promethean’s first touch-based Interactive Whiteboard and it’s very impressive. It’s also very annoying for me as a reviewer. It means I’m going to have to rewrite dozens of articles where I mourned the board’s lack of human-touch ...
For the last few months, I've been working with Zena Hilton, Links into Languages South East Regional Manager and Jo Rhys-Jones, Primary Languages Consultant on an awesome event we're calling the ICT Links into Languages conference which takes place on... ...
In the course of my work, I meet large numbers of teachers who use the interactive whiteboard (IWB) in their classrooms as little more than projection screens. I think that the current statistic is that over 60% of the whiteboards installed in English schools are only used in this way. ...