Promethean Planet joins forces with ClassFlow

Promethean Planet, an interactive whiteboard community for educators, is now part of ClassFlow, a collaborative teaching and learning software community. With the merger, all lessons and resources designed to be presented on an interactive whiteboard can now be shared across a connected classroom and sent to students’ Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops using ClassFlow.

“We’re extremely excited about what this integration means for the 2.5 million Promethean Planet members around the world,” said Vincent Young, the Chief Marketing Officer at Promethean. “By uniting the Promethean Planet and ClassFlow teacher communities, we can empower educators globally with thousands of high-quality interactive teaching resources that can ensure the active engagement and participation of every student in the classroom.”

ClassFlow is teacher-designed lesson delivery software that energizes the classroom learning experience by allowing teachers to showcase lessons on any interactive display, share digital lesson materials with students, administer quizzes and polls, and assign group learning activities using mobile devices.…Read More

6 hallmarks of the ‘connected classroom’

How does the idea of the connected classroom impact teaching and learning?

connected-classroomEvery educator wants to teach in a connected classroom, and every student wants to learn in one. But what is the “connected classroom,” and what are some of its most important features?

Ideally, the connected classroom expands on the ever-popular concept of 21st century skills and puts many “must-have” ideas into practice.

Connected classrooms have many moving parts, and each must work in sync to give students the best and most effective learning experiences possible.…Read More