The Whiteboard Blog

May13

Plumbago – A Free Digital Notebook App for Windows

Posted on May 13, 2016 in Interactive Whiteboards, iPads and Tablets, Other Whiteboards, Promethean, SMARTboards

Plumbago is a free digital notebook from Microsoft which, although designed with tablets in mind, works really well on an interactive whiteboard. Plumbago will work on any device running Windows 8 upwards, so it’ll run on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard that’s connected to a Windows 8/10 computer. It’ll also work fine on Windows tablets. Like most notebook software, Plumbago offers a range of papers and inks, and...

May09

Erase All Kittens and Learn to Code

Posted on May 9, 2016 in Coding, Computing

E.A.K. (Erase All Kittens) is a very bizarre online platform game that teaches children how to code in HTML and CSS by encouraging them to hack into the game’s levels to solve puzzles. The children play as Arca – a mysterious little creature who was banished to the ruins of the Ancient Internet. Their mission is to save the kittens of the Internet before something terrible happens to them. To do this they have to build...

May05

50 Essential Tools for any Science Teaching Toolkit

Posted on May 5, 2016 in Games and interactives, iPads and Tablets, Science Resources

One of my main roles is as a Primary Science lecturer, training student teachers to become great science teachers, or to at least to overcome the fear of science they developed in high school! Over the course of a year I fire plenty of useful websites and apps at them that they should check out. One of my students asked if I had a handy list of all of them in one place and I realised I hadn’t collated them for a while. So here...

May03

What’s New in Smart Notebook 16?

Posted on May 3, 2016 in Interactive Whiteboards, SMARTboards

SMART have just released version 16 of Smart Notebook. On the whole, it’ll look the same as older versions, but there’s a few new features worth knowing about. Such as: Image search Tool You can now easily add images to a Notebook page, without having to leave the software. The new Bing-powered image search automatically filters for royalty-free images, allows you to toggle between clip art and images and has safe-search...