I’m been trying to organise one of these for over a year, and I am now really proud to be able to announce that TeachMeet Essex will be taking place on the evening of Tuesday 19th October. It will be taking place at the Pioneer School, Basildon. The event is open to anyone interested in [...]

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If you are looking for training materials for Promethean ActivInspire then your most definitely do not want to miss Tim Cooper’s wiki. You can find it here: http://promethean.york.wikispaces.net/su10training. There are 13 flipcharts, each covering a different aspect of ActiveInspire, plus a transition flipchart for those moving across from older versions, an advanced flipchart and finally [...]

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Easiteach Next Generation is the latest version of the whiteboard software from RM/Lightbox. Now I’ll nail my colours to the mast early. I am a Smart and Promethean person. I have also loved their software equally above anything else I’ve used out there. Mimio, Ebeam and Starboard software just didn’t have the features and ease-of-use [...]

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A few years ago I was on a Train the Trainers day. The chap delivering the training showed us all quite a few nice examples of things to do on Smartboards, one or two I hadn’t seen before, and one or two that were nice variations on a theme. At the end of the training [...]

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So yeah I am still here, but been a little too busy to blog. Getting everything sorted for the end of term. Been hidden away for a while writing an update to resources for Serif software to teach the OCR Nationals ICT course. Which I am glad to say is pretty much complete. Now it’s [...]

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Here are a few ideas taken from some of the talks I have given this academic year for ideas on using your Interactive Whiteboard during lesson starters. They could also be used as plenary tasks. Some of the ideas you may have seen before in various places (such as the Canada, Germany talks), but I’m [...]

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Here’s a rather cute use of Augmented Reality technology. Produced by London Zoo it gives you the chance to have your very own Augmented reality lemur, Loris, sitting in the palm of your hand. Loris doesn’t do a lot, and you can’t really interact with her. But she’s very cute. You’ll need a webcam to [...]

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