Healthy Eating - from Teacher to the Table
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, News and Events | Comment (1) »Making healthy eating an important part of meal time for busy mums (and dads!) is challenging at the best of times - how do you introduce children to their greens when the only green they want is usually in the ...
Pocketing the Planet
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Geek Corner, Mobile Learning, Secondary Education, Susan Jenkins, iPods and iPhones | Comments (0) »I am honored to be a to able to write about the new “My Planet” app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Having purchased an iPod Touch a few weeks ago I was able to be among the first to ...
Hard to teach - Primary Maths
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah | Comments (0) »Continuing with my recent theme of turning pupils on to those 'turned off' subjects, I wondered what there was on Planet that could provide some inspiration...and then I remembered about a teacher from South Morningside Primary in Edinburgh, Scotland, called ...
Rub ‘n’ Reveal - a sign of the times….
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Contributors, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, Pedagogy, Professional Development and Training, Theory Into Practice, Your Stories | Comments (0) »It is with great excitement and actually real enjoyment that I get the chance to see the sharing that goes on with teachers through Promethean Planet for example. To download a range of Activlessons, Activpacks, Flipcharts, weblinks, and being ...
Its finally here! Promethean ActivInspire for ANY make of Interactive Whiteboard
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in ActivInspire, Assessment and Learning, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, News and Events | Comments (4) »You can now download a completely new software from Promethean called ActivInspire. The new software represents the culmination of almost three years of effort by a dedicated team within Promethean - and it would not have happened without an immense ...
Eyewitness report
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Margaret Allen, News and Events, Pedagogy, Promethean Products, Secondary Education, Uncategorized | Comment (1) »One of the first lessons that I ever planned was for a Year 1 class. We were looking at relationships under the topic heading "My Friends". We had a great time and I even had a man in with his ...
Innovating teachers share at the TeachMeet “unconference” at BETT 09
Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Game Based Learning, Geek Corner, Google, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, News and Events, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training, Programming, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice, Web 2.0, Your Stories, iPods and iPhones | Comments (0) »For many educators, the best thing about big education shows and conferences is not the new products and presentations, but what goes on in between the product showcases; Teachers connecting with teachers, the sharing of what is really working in ...
ActivConnect - connecting classrooms across the Planet!
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Activconnect, Classroom Ideas, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, News and Events, Secondary Education, Web 2.0 | Comments (0) »One of the most popular threads in the Promethean Planet forum is one called "FlipPals..." with thousands of reads and hundreds of posts, It is the thread that brought 'Flippy' and 'Flippete' into the Promethean lexicon. In the true sprirt of ...
BETT09 Day 2 - Welcome The Dot
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, News and Events | Comments (0) »The journey theme continued today (along with the crowds of curious teachers!) starting with a group of Primary pupils from Mount Carmel School, Ealing, London, and a guest appearance by author of the fabulous ‘The Dot’ book, Peter H. Reynolds, ...
Dorling Kindersley and Promethean join forces to bring Eyewitness series to the Activclassroom
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Activprimary, Activstudio, Early Years and Primary, News and Events, Secondary Education | Comments (0) »If your school library is anything like mine used to be, it will likely have a huge selection of titles from Dorling Kindersley, one of the most popular publishing brands. The Eyewitness series of books and their trademark style are ...
Be Inspired! Promethean Releases Major Software Update as preview
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Activote, Activpanel, Activprimary, Activslate, Activstudio, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Expression, Family and Community, Free Resources, Further & Higher Education, Mark Robinson, News and Events, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training, Programming, Promethean Products, Secondary Education | Comment (1) »If you can't wait, then you can jump right in and download the preview software right now from: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/activsoftware Activsoftware is major update to Promethean's multi-award winning Activprimary and Activstudio software. With pens, highlighters, real working maths tools like protractors, rulers and compasses ...
Simple Science Sing Alongs….
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training, Secondary Education | Comments (0) »Just picked this great site up from Danny Nicholson who is an IWB consultant via Twitter (Which is proving a great way to pick up buzz around useful sites and resources) http://www.simplescience.net/ Does - just what it says Sing Along Science! The freely ...
The Amazing Automatic Activboard in Auckland
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, Your Stories | Comment (1) »One of the great things about Promethean Planet is being able to read inspirational stories from classrooms across the globe, and in this particular case, from Auckland, New Zealand. And of course, it's usually the ones from the pupils themselves ...
Flip Mino Camera - A cool tool for your Activclassroom perhaps?
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Mark Robinson, Mobile Learning, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training | Comment (1) »I like to imagine tools that will make a teachers job really easy..... Imagine if there was a super simple, plug and play camera that you or your students could learn to use in seconds. Imagine if it never needed batteries, if ...
Educating Parents about Interactive Technologies to help Fund Raising
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Early Years and Primary, Inspirational ideas and people, Janice Black, News and Events, Policy and Funding, Professional Development and Training, Your Stories | Comment (1) »In the current financial climate schools are being forced to find creative ways of raising funds to equip themselves with resources identified as necessary for learning and teaching in the 21st Century. Searching for Fund Raising in the forum will bring ...
