The Educated Kiwi
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Stu’s Double Jeopardy, Great fun for basic facts.
Apr 29th
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 is also a lot of information on the site in the way of help files for everything from creating custom skins to adding music files. I found that my Year 11 class took about 45 minutes on the American Government Review game and now look forward to seeing what their recall is like come moodle test time.
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors
Mar 22nd
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 for $200 NZD you can get a five user license and should get the use out of it.
eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors.
Clasus Challenge IWB pricing
Feb 25th
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.” Screenflex made their name by challenging a ruling that Promethean Ireland had. This rule was the only way one could use ActivStudio, (Promethean’s software), was with a Promethean board.
After ignoring Promethean’s self-made rule, Screenflex shipped the Clasus with Promethean software anyway. When they were “threatened” with legal action, the guys checked out the law books (and the head of Promethean UK) and a quick U-turn from Promethean occurred. This is why I really liked these guys. They have found a product that is basically a clone of Promethean and are selling it with the software and trying to save us teachers a few quid.
via Anseo.net.
Wiimote whiteboard roundup
Oct 21st
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 happy to send them out to us. I still prefer our own pens largely due to the button and slightly larger size of the pen. There are several other vendors for the pens out there and they can be found on the wiimote whiteboard page.
Also for schools interested in this the wiimote for schools how to is a good place to start. For the software to run the boards I have been using Uwe Schmidt‘s on the mac and Boonjin’s Smoothboard on PC. The smoothboard software is great for the extra functions as it makes the area outside the board useful for backspace return etc as well as a host of functions for google earth and sketchup. The next step for us will be an instructional video on how to make the pens. If you would like a demo and live close enough let us know and if you really don’t want to get you hands dirty we can organise a ready to install kit for you where the wiimote is mains powered and the button for syncing with bluetooth is extended to the front of the classroom.
wiimote, so easy
Oct 15th
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 
Wii Mote Pictures
Sep 25th
Here are some shots of the mounts and the pens manufactured by Te Puke High School.
YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards
Sep 23rd
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.
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