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Entries from November 2006

MacBook Pro

November 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The burdens of a long teaching day were thankfully relieved by the presentation of my new shiny slim Glow MacBook Pro. It has some great new features such as a built in camera,and light sensors that illuminate the keyboard automatically when it gets dark. I also like some of the new software such as Photobooth [...]

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Promethean on board

November 10th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Finally have my Promethean interactive whiteboard up and it’s looking good and working well. I have spent a lot of this week playing around with the various resources and so far I am impressed.
I found the board to be a real help with a maths lesson where I was teaching about area. In particular the [...]

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Using a DV Camera course

November 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

November 1st: leading my first full day course at Inverary Conference Centre.
A nervous start to the month! This was the first day course I have lead for Argyll and Bute authority but all went very well. It was aimed at beginners, and they seemed to be much more confident in their use of a DV [...]

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