With the news this morning regarding the disruption of European flights due to the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland I decided to post some very interesting cloud maps, photos, and video regarding this.
Great to show the class using an interactive whiteboard or data projector, really bring the news into perspective and incorporates geography too.
We are exhibiting at the INTO Annual Congress 2010 which is being held at the Salthill Hotel in Galway City, from April 5-7.
Once we have our stand number confirmed I will post details here including some photos of the exhibition hall, check back soon. I look forward to seeing you there.
Visit the INTO website to learn more about the conference. The agenda of the conference:
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.
The CESI expo will be held on Saturday, 6th Feb at Portlaoise College which is located on Mountrath Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Hope to see you there.
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.
The conference was held on January 28-30, at the Citywest Hotel & Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
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.
Visit the INTO website to learn more about the conference. The agenda of the conference:
UPDATE: April 08, 2010 Excellent conference, it was great to meet everyone who stopped by the stand. I have uploaded some photos from the exhibition hall.
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:
More photos, over 100 photos from across Europe.
Improved functionality with interactive whiteboards.
Multi-layered country maps, great for using with interactive whiteboards.
Updated content with more information on each feature.
Country maps are now larger and can be expanded to full screen and include further country information.
View country maps from the Capitals study area, so you can see where the capital is in each country.
Each country flag can now be enlarged to full screen.
Minor bug fixes including support for dual screen displays.
Improved support for Windows Vista and Windows 7, works great with the new Windows 7.
The trial version is now available to download from our website, with audio provided by Sarah Lane from California. The Irish edition includes audio in English and As Gaeilge by Nicola Crean from Co Cork.
"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."
Quote from Steve Wozniak when asked recently about the end of Moore's Law (the idea that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years). Published by Technology Review Jan/Feb 2009.
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.
View our YouTube Channel for the latest videos of our software in action, more coming soon and HD video will recorded over the coming weeks too.
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."
This does not surprise me, although this is not limited to just Ireland either. Newsweek about 12 months ago reported the great length teachers in the United States were going to get Interactive Whiteboards in their classrooms.
Other interesting developments is a piece reported on by the Irish Independent (from enn.ie) that money currently not spent on school buildings may be diverted to ICT;
"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."
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.