Stu’s Double Jeopardy, Great fun for basic facts.

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. There [...]

eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors

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

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.”  [...]

Wiimote whiteboard roundup

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 [...]

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
YouTube – wiimote, so easy.

Wii Mote Pictures

Here are some shots of the mounts and the pens manufactured by Te Puke High School.

YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards

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.