The Educated Kiwi
wiimote, so easy
To further advertise the simplicity of using the wiimote pens this video shows my Two year old daugther using the wiimote irpens on the projector in the lounge. She now loves standing on the toy box and drwing on the wall. good one dad 
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Wiimotes and Plasma Screens
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
It may not be pretty but this is the modified TEK irpen that we have used for making a plasma screen interactive. The reasoning behind this came from having to put a wiimote in a year one classroom and the projector giving an image that kids would be too short for. So with a slight
Stu’s Double Jeopardy, Great fun for basic facts.
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
As much as it pains me to have to boot into my windows virtual machine (feel the mac snob coming out in me there) Stu’s Double Jeopardy makes me do just that. While I have made up Jeopardy games before in Powerpoint and lately in Smart’s Notebook this is so easy and looks so good.
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors
about 1 year ago - No comments
While the KKC and MMC Maths and Science classes have been indulging in echalk resources for some time now, they have recently released resources on History. With particular interest to me were the tudor and stuart resources for yr 13 History and as we already have a license I can get straight into it. So
Clasus Challenge IWB pricing
about 1 year ago - No comments
Clasus is a Portuguese company that sell Interactive Whiteboards that look like Promethean IWBs, act like Promethean IWBs and are Promethean IWBs under a different name (allegedly). Screenflex (no web site as yet) are the Irish company attempting to sell these boards for, in their words, “about a grand and a half less than Promethean.”
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about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you
Wiimote whiteboard roundup
about 1 year ago - 13 comments
So we have had our first week of having the wiimote in a class at Katikati College. Next week we deploy to another eight classrooms across the cluster as well as three at Omokoroa No 1 School. So far we have built some of our own pens and brought some from penteractive.us who were very
NZ election debate questions
about 1 year ago - No comments
Following on from all the US political excitement, here in NZ we can ask questions of our politicians through youtube it would seem. Now I just have to think up what to say about education. Hmm limited to 30 seconds. YouTube – debate’s Channel. Share and Enjoy:
Wii Mote Pictures
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Here are some shots of the mounts and the pens manufactured by Te Puke High School. Share and Enjoy:
YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards. I visited Tepuke High School today and was really impressed by the setup for their wiimote iwb’s I look forward to building my own this week. Will post some photos of the setup later, If only my n73 bluetooth would work with osx. Share and Enjoy:
More video converter action
about 2 years ago - No comments
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So more on the Zamzar video etc discussions MOVAVI also allows you to splice together youtube movies. I guess I should also blog that I stiil find VisualHub the best on OSX and AVS on Win but for free you can’t complain. Share and Enjoy:
about 1 year ago
Hi Richard, have you got any instructions for making a wiimote pen and then getting it up and running??? I saw a few other You Tube videos and I think I would really like to make one. Cheers, Mel
about 1 year ago
Yes I have and Mark is currently videoing the whole process which we will post later in the week.