Posts made in May 2nd, 2008

Senteo

Posted on May 2, 2008 in Interactive Whiteboards | 1 comment

I’ve recently got my hands on a set of Smart’s new Senteo voting kits. They look really nice and I can’t wait to try them out with a class soon.

Smart is moving into a quite crowded market, against products like Activote, TurningPoint, Quizdom etc but this is a pretty nice product.

Once the software is installed you get a Senteo option on your Smart Notebook toolbar (and also in Powerpoint, but I’ve not investigated that yet). Adding questions for the students to answer couldn’t be easier and I’ve made a short video to show how to do it.

Take a look at the video here.

The handsets are quite chunky, and less “nickable” than the TurningPoint ones. They come in a very nice padded bag with a carry strap for ease of transport. The receiver was installed pretty quickly and it was really simple to import a class list into the Senteo Manager. I’ll do some more tutorials soon to show how to do this.

First impressions are very positive. I set up a test, logged in some handsets and ran the quiz very quickly. Output to Excel was also simple. I don’t know how good the data mining is yet, that’s something else I need to investigate.

Will post more on here once I’ve had more of a play.

Search and Mobile

Posted on May 2, 2008 in Web Tools | 0 comments

A while back I added a Search feature to the sidebar of the blog. Or at least I thought I had, but it seemed to stop working not long after I added it.

Anyway, I’ve been playing again and have tweaked the search tool and this time I think it is working. You can search by clicking on the link in the sidebar on the right, or go here.

I’ve also followed this idea from Creative ICT and used MoFuse to make a mobile version of my blog. You can find it by pointing your mobile phone to whiteboardblog.mofuse.mobi