We will be exhibiting at the CESI Conference 2010, which is titled "Creative Technology in Challenging Times" and it will be great to meet everyone who attends, so don't forget to pop into the expo to try our software.
Many thanks to all who visited us at the EdWare stand (25B) at the IPPN, it was great to meet our existing customers and our new customers. It was great to showcase our geography software: Know Your Ireland, Know Your Europe, Know Your USA and Know Your World over the three days of the conference.
A special thanks to Lennox Labs for providing us with an interactive whiteboard and projector for the conference.
Great news, we will be exhibiting at the INTO Congress this April 5-7 in the Salthill Hotel, Galway. We look forward to seeing you there, we will update our stand information as we receive it from the INTO.
Update of Know Your Europe, version 2.1 is now available. This is a free update to all current users of version 2.0. There are a few minor and major improvements and features:
Labels: Know Your Europe
"In schools," says Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple II, "the life span of a desk is 25 years, a textbook is 10 years, and a computer is three years, tops. Which of these devices costs the most to buy and operate? Why, the PC, of course. Which has residual value when its useful life is over? Not the PC--it costs money to dispose of. At least books can be burned for heat. Until technology slows down enough for computing platforms to last long enough to be economically viable, they won't be truly intrinsic to education."
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Over the past few weeks I have been trying our software on a selection of Interactive Whiteboards. This week I will post a few videos I took using Know Your USA, Know Your Europe and Know Your Ireland on a Promethean Interactive Whiteboard.Labels: Interactive Whiteboard Series, News
EdWare Learning has teamed up with Seomra Ranga (www.seomraranga.com) to bring you a competition on their website for the month of November. We are sponsoring prizes for the competition and providing a number of copies of Know Your Ireland and Know Your Europe to the winners. To be in with a chance of winning one of these prizes, all you have to do is upload a resource to the Seomra Ranga website during the month of November. Simply attach the resource, in any format (.doc, .pdf, .xls, .pub, .jpg etc) to an e-mail and send it to info@seomraranga.com, visit the Seomra Ranga website and blog for further details.
Come visit the EdWare stand at the IPPN (Irish Primary Principals' Network) Conference from January 28-30, 2010 at the Citywest Hotel & Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland. We will be at stand number 25, drop by and try our award winning geography software for schools.
A very interesting article appeared on SiliconRepublic.com today regarding Interactive Whiteboards. According to the article parents pay 90% of the cost of Interactive Whiteboards in Irish schools;
"Efforts of parents rather than the Government are responsible for 90pc of the interactive whiteboards deployed in Irish schools."
"The Irish Independent reports that millions of euro earmarked for school building this year is to be diverted to pay for long-overdue computers in schools. Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe has been sitting on a high-powered report on ICT in schools, prepared by leading industrialists, outlining the need for urgent investment in technology in schools. The report's recommendations, which include a laptop in every classroom to be phased in from this year, have been awaiting a cash injection. However, the threat to the school building fund has caused anger among the 1,200 schools currently seeking approval to go ahead with major building projects."
EdWare joined the LEAP programme in June 2009, hosted at the EAC in Limerick. LEAP is a one year enterprise development platform that will enable EdWare to grow and take the business to the next level.
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Update of Know Your USA, version 1.6 is now available. This is a free to all current users. There are a few minor and major improvements and features:
Labels: Know Your USA, News
