I run a lot of interactive whiteboard training courses for teachers, and I am very much aware that for a new user your average piece of IWB software has a lot of buttons and tools that can be quite confusing. In addition, while the majority of schools are using either Smart Notebook or Activ software …

Here’s a video of my Teachmeet Essex talk that gives a very quick run through of some very simple ideas to create lesson starters (or plenaries) for your interactive whiteboard. This normally forms the basis of a much longer training session (for any brand of IWB). Want me to run this session in your school? …

Thanks to Sarah at Iris Connect for posting the whole of my TeachMeet Takeover talk at BETT back in January. I spoke about Essential Digital Media for your whiteboard. I also gave a modified version of this presentation at the Teacher2Teacher conference 2011 in Alberta, Canada, and also to the World ORT charity in London. …

We’ve finally got around to giving the website a whole new look. The site is now powered by a WordPress blog back end with a custom theme applied. For now the old site design will apply to the resources and IWB files areas as I know a lot of people are linking to those areas. …