Join Manzana and 2Touch for a teacher-led interactive whiteboard session. Taking place on the 7th of may, Sommerville special school will host the IWB session. The session will include a range of teacher presentations, with guest speaker Julie King leading the evening with her presentation detailing how she specialises her IWB use to suit her […]
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What’s happening in WorkbookFor those of you unsure on what 2Touch Workbook is, it’s the latest interactive whiteboard software that’s made right here in New Zealand. Designed and developed with the help of New Zealand teachers, 2Touch Workbook provides a blank canvas to create lessons and a set of accompanying tools to generate interactivity and
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Looking for input As part of the development of 2Touch and 2Touch Workbook, the team from 2Touch is continually engaged with New Zealand teachers in the pursuit of understanding what you really want from the IWB software that you use. So yet again in 2009 2Touch is putting the call out there for kiwi teachers
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For over 115 years the Van Asch Deaf Education Centre (VADEC) in Christchurch has been devoted to helping deaf and hearing-impaired students communicate with the world. So when the world’s first fully government funded school for the deaf decided to invest in an interactive whiteboard they were following in a strong tradition of utilising the
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Whilst the rest stood around talking during Learning@schools09, Manzana had the people popping for their school’s honour.
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If your school has a building project on the horizon, then Manzana maybe able to help you put that building fund towards a 2Touch interactive whiteboard.Done at the architect stage, 2Touch can be recorded under wall fixtures in the contract, providing you with a unique funding opportunity. For more information and the right way to go
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Student participation experts WordWall have just released their next generation of handheld clicker and interactive interface in a joint WordWall 2.0 launch. Giving themselves a massive facelift, WordWall has introduced influential changes to both their interface software and hand-held clickers. Continuing their focus on student participation whilst also taking their interactive interface a huge step forward and
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Using the annotate function for movies One of the great uses for an interactive whiteboard is the ability to use the screen capture and annotate feature. One of the neat things you can do with the screen annotate function is the ability to scribble over the top of videos. Whether it’s to point out symbolism in a
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Name: WorldWide Telescope Address: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. This amazing website will allow you to download one of the latest and greatest applications that Microsoft has come up with. WWT gives users
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2Touch is adding to its list of New Zealand lovers as all Kiwi website Made from New Zealand has made a video on the unique, Kiwi made, solution.
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The Wireless Tablet lets you take control of your computer from anywhere in the room. By connecting the tablet to your computer, via an RF connection, you simply move the pressure sensitive pen across the light-weight tablets surface and it instantly moves your mouse cursor. Giving you full mouse control from anywhere in the room! But as
Name: BBC Schools Address:www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ The BBC’s very own education website focuses on all ages from the youngins through to the big kids. With a variety of games, flash videos and thought provoking clips there is a variety of information and learning tools spread out over many subjects – definitely worth a look.
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Tips and tricks To kick start the New Year we have a couple of basic, but helpful, tips and tricks. The Right Click On both, the 2Touch Interactive Whiteboard and the smartboard, to gain the right click menu simply hold your finger down on the screen for slightly longer than you normally when
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Being made in NZ not only keeps fund sin the country it also means when the exchange rate goes up our prices stay the same – unfortunately that’s not the same for our projectors.
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Name: Birmingham Grid for Learning Address: www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm An English website, ‘the Birmingham Grid for Learning’ is a comprehensive and well resourced online learning environment. The sites real value comes in its free Interactive Whiteboard Resources. With resources divided up by school year and subject there is a massive variety of engaging and interactive activities. From simple activities such as matching body
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On Thursday the 27th of November, Melbourne Grammar welcomed principals and HOs to an evening with 2Touch.
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December’s tips and tricks + Download of the month Interactive Whiteboard tips Dragging the correct answers into the correct box Here is a handy trick for when you have an object/question with a list of possible answers and you want your students to work out which are right and which are wrong. You list your
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This month’s tips and tricks take a look at nifty little short cuts that make using your IWB that much easier. A fancy way of touching your board Here is a trick that is set to make you the coolest IWB user in the school. Want to move an object from one part of the
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This month we review three interactvie and engaging websites covering a range of subjects from Chemistry to English, General Science, Social Studies and, well, just about everything. Virtual Chemistry Name: Virtual Chemistry Address: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/ Purpose: Online Chemistry resource utilising multimedia. Virtual chemistry is one of the most comprehensive science websites on the web. Put together by
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iKnowthat.com Name: I know that.com Address: http://www.iknowthat.com Purpose: A unique website full of highly interactive and educational games iKnowthat.com is a perfect partner for interactive whiteboards. A simple to use website, iKnowthat.com only requires you to take a minute registering (for free) and then opens up your classroom
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