Promethean Planet Membership Passes The Half Million Mark
Released
on: January 19, 2010, 5:19 am
Author: Promethean
Industry: Education
Promethean, a world leader in the rapidly growing global
market for interactive learning technology, has announced that
membership of Promethean Planet has passed the half million mark,
doubling in only one year. Promethean Planet was launched in 2006 and
in less than four years has become the world's largest online
community for users of interactive learning technology.
Available in ten languages with members in more than 150 countries, Promethean
planet is free to join and enables teachers from
around the globe to exchange ideas, share new and innovative lesson plans and have access to a
wide variety of professional development materials. The site contains more than
16,000 fully customable lesson resources for all ages, representing more than
225,000 pages of teaching resources, and includes
interactive whiteboard resources and premium interactive
educational content from leading publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, National
Geographic, Scholastic, Waterford Institute, Harper Collins and Oxford University
Press.
Promethean Planet received the Worlddidac Foundation Award for Excellence in
Education in 2008. Recent monthly statistics show that there were more than 250,000
unique visits, five million page views and more than 550,000 downloads on the site
(November 2009). Planet is currently supported in English, French, Spanish, Italian,
German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh and Arabic.
Brent Taggart, chief strategy officer, commented: "Promethean Planet's growth has
surpassed all our expectations and has become the world's leading online community
of its kind. As well as providing an unrivalled resource base, helping teachers to
prepare and make lessons more interactive, it is also a global forum for members to
interact and share ideas. Its success plays a key role in helping to bring learning
to life in the classroom."
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About Promethean:
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. In these ways, Promethean is helping bring to life the promise of 21st
century learning, improving engagement and results for learners and teachers alike.
The market for interactive learning technology is fast growing and global. In this
market, Promethean is a world leader. Developed by teachers for teachers,
Promethean's ActivClassroom brings together its interactive display systems
(ActivBoard), its Learner Response Systems (ActiVote and ActivExpression), and its
suite of specialised teaching software (ActivInspire). They change how teachers and
classes engage and interact, how students learn and how they are monitored and
assessed.
Press enquiries:
Tracey McLaine
Head of PR
Promethean
Lower Philips Road
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 5TH
UK
+44(0)1254 290 752
www.PrometheanWorld.com
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