Released on: June 25, 2010, 2:38 am
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Promethean Planet
Industry: Education
Promethean, a world leader in the rapidly growing global market for interactive learning technology, has unveiled a new look Promethean Planet to provide members with a faster, easier and more enhanced user experience.
Available free in 11 languages, this next generation of Planet aims to provide its 600,000 plus teaching members with new functional enhancements. These include a one-click mega-menu and enhanced resource search and filtering, making it quicker to search for and access over 20,000 free teaching resources.
Proving once again that Promethean Planet is all about its members, the new site enables users to personalise their experience by customising their interactive whiteboard community homepage with their favourite content and resources, exchange private messages with other members and create bookmarked quick links to any Planet page. In addition, Planet's free online storage means each member can save and store up to 1GB of resources securely in their free, personal storage space.
With its enhanced website, Promethean Planet continues to lead the way to encourage the true spirit of community. Promethean Planet's new innovative private group functionality has been designed to meet the needs of educator groups, schools, districts and education authorities. Planet members can apply to set up a private group that includes private forum, blog and wiki functionality as well as the ability to file-share within the private group environment.
Brent Taggart, Head of Promethean Planet said: "Promethean Planet is the world's largest online community of its kind and its success is due to its members who span 150 countries. We provide the platform for teachers and educationalists to share lessons and ideas, source training, and interact with their peers. The enhancements and improved functionality unveiled today have been designed with our members in mind in order to further improve their Planet experience and to build on its market leading position."
Promethean Planet's popular online store has also been given a new facelift, making it even easier to buy publisher created interactive whiteboard resources from leading names such National Geographic, Dorling Kindersley, Scholastic, the Waterford Institute and Collins. These low-cost, ready-made lessons are completely customisable, aligned to educational standards and can be purchased in US dollars, GBP and now Euros.
Promethean Planet's innovations don't stop there. Throughout the year more enhancements will be rolled out including some exciting new premium services.
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About Promethean - Lighting the flame of learning
Promethean's aim is to unlock the potential of human achievement in education and
training at all ages around the world. It does so by creating, developing,
supplying and supporting leading edge, interactive learning technology and by
encouraging the growth of the world's largest online teacher community in this
field.
The market for interactive learning technology is fast growing and global. In this market, Promethean is a world leader. Developed for teachers, Promethean's ActivClassroom brings together its interactive display systems (ActivBoard), its learner response systems (ActiVote and ActivExpression), free lesson plans and its suite of specialised teaching software (ActivInspire). These change how teachers and classes engage and interact, how students learn and how they are monitored and assessed.
Beyond the classroom, Promethean provides comprehensive training and support and,
with over 600,000 members, the rapidly growing Promethean Planet is the world's
largest online community for users of interactive display system technology,
providing user-generated and premium content, and is a forum for teachers to
exchange ideas and experience.
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