If you ever put the Discovery channel on, the chances are that very soon you’ll encounter an episode of Mythbusters. It’s one of my favourite shows on TV at the moment. OK, the kid in me never tires of watching large explosions, but there is some very good science going on too. They put movie [...]
Here’s yet another way to get hold of YouTube videos as flv files to embed into Smart Notebook and ActivInspire Pages, it’s called Freecorder and you can download it here. Videos from YouTube and like sites are transmitted and captured in FLV format. Many of these video sites cache the video on your PC if [...]
Further to the article earlier today about Promethean’s licence changes, I’ve managed to locate the new Smart Notebook licence as of 21 June 2010. You can download the pdf file here. Basically, like Promethean, Smart are tightening up on what you are allowed to do with Smart Notebook software. The ability to install it on [...]
When ActivInspire was released last year there was much trumpeting over the use of the new Personal Edition. I wrote about what a good idea this was in my post “ActivInspire for All IWB Users?“. I’ve noticed recently, however, on the ActivInspire website, a section that mentions a change to the terms of the licence, [...]
I’ve been looking over the site stats, and here are 10 of the most visited pages over the last year. There might be some things you’ve missed. Most of the page titles are self-explanatory: 11 Ideas for Music Lessons on your Interactive Whiteboard 13 sites for MFL teaching with your Interactive Whiteboard 10 avatar generators [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
07.17Pay it forward
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 [...]
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 [...]