People of the Great War - Why We Shouldn’t Forget
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah | Comment (1) »I guess today more than any other date - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - people have had a golden two minutes to stop and reflect about war, what it means for previous generations ...
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 ...
Promethean Planet Debuts in the Middle East
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Family and Community, Free Resources, Liam O'Marah | Comment (1) »Some of you may have noticed that our community is growing not just in terms of numbers, but also languages. You can now access Promethean Planet in seven languages, taking advantages of resources prepared by teachers from global ideas, but ...
Exploring the Apollo Moon Landings with Google Earth 5 & the ActivBoard
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Google, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, Mark Robinson | Comment (1) »Continuing our recent exploration of Google Earth 5 with the Activboard where we explored then blogged about ocean data and using Google Earth to plot GPS coordinates , we then decided to explore the Apollo moon landings using Google Earth ...
Understanding History to Make Sense of the Future
Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in Creativity in the classroom, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah | Comments (0) »Not many people would look behind when going forward, but what if we all took a step back to revisit our history - could this make sense of a sometimes clouded future? Over the past couple of months, Promethean Planet has ...
Self Paced Learning
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in ActivInspire, Classroom Ideas, Expression, Liam O'Marah, Personalised Learning | Comments (0) »With the launch of ActivInspire 1.2, teachers now have the option to take advantage of new 'Self Paced' functionality with their ActivExpression sets. The Planet team decided to catch up with one Planet member, Alison Lydon, Head of Junior School ICT ...
Welcome the World Into Your Classroom With The Traveling Flipchart
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Family and Community, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, Your Stories | Comments (0) »It's amazing to think how something as simple as a flipchart can take your class to the other side of the globe. That's the beauty of being part of a global community, such as Planet, where you can connect, share ...
Looking at Ocean Data with Google Earth & the Activboard
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Free Resources, Google, Liam O'Marah, Mark Robinson | Comments (2) »Continuing with our recent blog post on using Google Earth to map GPS Data, we thought we would explore the possibilities of the 'Layer' function to display volcano information, using our Activboard. Using Layers The layer function within Google Earth 5.0 (see ...
Using GPS Data with Google Earth & the Activboard
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Activboard, Creativity in the classroom, Free Resources, Google, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, Mark Robinson, Secondary Education | Comment (1) »One of the best things about Promethean is that we are surrounded with some fantastic technology, but it's technology with a purpose. We love exploring new ways of using technology but also integrating it with other cool applications. After all, ...
Planet 2.0 - leaner, faster, refined
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Free Resources, Liam O'Marah | Comment (1) »Over the next coming weeks the Planet team are going to be blogging about some of the aspects of the new Planet (referred to here as Planet 2.0) that will make your life in the classroom a whole lot easier. Our ...
Practical ideas for Heritage in the Classroom
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah | Comments (0) »Research has shown that pupils who are more aware of their heritage and ancestral background are more likely to perform better at school. Our latest Theme on Planet for 'Heritage in the classroom' looks at ways that Planet can help ...
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 ...
Hard to teach - Secondary English
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Free Resources, Liam O'Marah, Secondary Education | Comments (0) »I was recently browsing through the Becta Twitter site and came across a link to a Teachers TV video about those 'hard to teach' subjects (this one was for Secondary English), and how teachers have been using ICT in the ...
Is your carpet hissing at me?
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Free Resources, Liam O'Marah | Comment (1) »If it is and you live in Australia, can I make a suggestion? RUN! For those of us who live with the safe knowledge that the most harmful thing we could encounter is a calorie loaded pizza, I feel secure in ...
Fosters Primary, UK, Connect With Rock Island, USA, to Exchange More Than Just Lessons
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Activconnect, Creativity in the classroom, Family and Community, Free Resources, Inspirational ideas and people, Liam O'Marah, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Your Stories | Comments (0) »John Adams is the ICT Subject Leader at Fosters Primary School in Welling, UK, and a pioneer of using Elluminate technology & other ActivConnect ideas to connect his classroom with Rock Island Elementary, Florida. Elluminate, a free service to Planet members, ...
