Category: Primary School ICT

New promethean board

Posted on by primaryt

What we now think we know about this board:

Multi touch
Gesture recognition
Short throw projector (obviously)
No pen required (yay)

You can multiplayer..  Player 1 would use pen.  Player 2 would use finger(touch), obviously no gesture recognition with the pen.   Player 3 stays at home.

Possible uses for multiplayer other than Powerpoint?  Not many yet.  All On-line services only support one controller as far as I am aware.  Scholastic has something out though which is for multiple controllers, this might work?

Here is an article by Promethean about this

Primary School TV show RSS feed

Posted on by primaryt

I was going to tweet about this but it’s a bit too complicated to explain in a tweet.

Some of you may know I’m working on a project that brings TV shows and other video content into the classroom. (The project is called Primary School TV and is now live.)

I have been tasked with finding relevant video content, obvious choices such as CBBC make up for a % of the content available and thankfully BBC publish RSS feeds.  Youtube also makes up for another big chunk.  The rest comes from external vendors that publish feeds of their learning content.  All in all about 20 shows per day each about 30 minutes long will be available.

The whole project is no where near ready for public consumption but I thought it would be good to just update everyone to how things are going and hopefully build up some excitement for the 2011 launch.

To summarize:  We will shortly be publishing an RSS feed of TV content relevant for children of a primary school age that includes various sources worldwide and is all free content. UPDATE: This is now live, see below.

Here is a link to the rss feed from Primary School TV

Comparing PrimaryPad and Google Docs

Posted on by John McLear

Lots of people lately have been asking me if PrimaryPad is better than Google Docs and I wanted to make a quick video explaining how PrimaryPad is able to focus purely on learning and collaboration.  If you have ever found yourself saying “Oh I will just use Google Docs because it’s free” then this video is for you! 🙂

Never let it be said I’m not brave enough to answer my critics 😉

Primary School ICT shop

Posted on by primaryt

We have launched a shop!   I say we, I have had nothing to do with it personally but it looks great and it’s obvious the guys at Primary Technology have been working hard! It has a few items in now and is due a proper launch in 2011 but I wanted to give readers of my blog a sneak preview =)

You can some of your Primary School ICT bits including laptop cabs, netbooks, usb keys etc.

The idea behind the shop is that it keeps the purchasing process simple.  The shop only stocks useful items and we can allow purchashing with purchase orders.

I’m not a big fan of a company that box shifts but it turns out that our purchasing power shouldn’t be ignored as we may be able to save schools muchos dineros when purchasing equipment!  Try us out!  If we suck, let me know!

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