IWB Delicious
Just a quick post. You may not be aware that it’s now possible to use the power of Google to search only for Promethean flipcharts using this custom search engine:
A similar feature exists for Smartboard users if you want to find Smart Notebook resources.
One type of software that is really cool on an interactive whiteboard are the various painting packages. Drawing is hard with a mouse, but better with a graphics tablet – and you can’t get a bigger graphics tablet than an Interactive Whiteboard.
If you own a Promethean board then you might be interested to know that [...]
With the 2010 Winter Olympics taking place in Vancouver/Whistler in a few weeks time, the eyes of the world will turn to Canada. With that in mind, Promethean have produced a great resource pack to teach your students all about Canada. This pack is for Activ Inspire only.
This resource pack contains 140 resources on the [...]
I’ve written a new guide for the ActivExpression voting kit produced by Promethean. It’s based on the help files that you can find within ActivInspire, but I’ve added some additional bits and pieces.
I’m delivering a short session on this at a college next week, so thought some handouts would be useful.
The guide is hosted on [...]
News on the Promethean website that there is a new upgrade for Active Inspire. Version 1.2 is now available to download for free for all Promethean users (and also users of other IWBs)
Features include improved support for Visualisers, Dual Pen capability and some improvements to searching for resources from the library.
ActivInspire V1.2 now supports the [...]
A very quick post to draw your attention to two useful wikis for the main 2 interactive whiteboards out there:
Promethean Wiki
http://promethean.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/su09training
Smartboard Wiki
http://smartlinks.wikispaces.com/
Both look quite handy. Worth bookmarking to use in the future.
Edit – also found one for Interwrite boards: http://mahetc.wikispaces.com/11
Here’s a quick idea for a lesson starter or a plenary. Hidden in the bucket, on the ends of the fishing rods are different keywords. When you pull the fishing rod out of the bucket it reveals the keyword. Students then have to explain what that word means, or explain what it does etc.
You can [...]
ActivInspire users should be aware that Promethean have released a patch which fixes some of the initial bugs that were present on release.
You can get hold of the update by running ActivInspire and going to Help > Check for Updates. You will then be directed to a download page. Download and install the patch file.
For [...]
YouTube has now launched a new section of its famous video sharing website that organizes the video channels of more than 100 colleges and universities. It’s called YouTube Edu.
The idea is to flag up the educational videos to make them easier to find. It’s a little similar (and I would guess shares very similar content) [...]
I ran a training day last week for a college where we looked at Visualisers (sometimes called Document Cameras). Through the day we tried out some different things that you could do and I took some screen grabs.
I have put the screengrabs, and a few photographs from the day into a short presentation. Hopefully it [...]