The International Assistant on Youtube.com

We decided to add our latest video tutorial on Youtube.com. Hope you like it?

Accent and character tool video

New video about


The International Assistant

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Interactive Living Graph!

See our new activity: Think It! in action on Youtube.com (English example of the The Highwayman).

Interactive Venn Diagram on Youtube.com

We have now created a mini video of our Interactive Venn Diagram on Youtube.com. It gives you an idea how to use Think It!


Interactive Venn Diagram

Note it! hits Youtube.com

Check out our latest Youtube.com video

English: How different are Jude and Diggory, really?

Another update to our interactive Venn Diagrams. This example gets students analysing the main protagonists in Hardy's novels: How different are Jude and Diggory, really?

New living-graph diagrams added

We have just updated our All Subjects section with a series of interactive diagrams for:

• History
• Modern Foreign Languages
• English
• Mathematics

Hope you find them useful!

New Note-It activities updated

I have just completed a series of new Note-It (like interactive Post-It notes) activities ready to be downloaded:

• Geography Mystery
• History Mystery
• Modern Foreign Languages - Understanding Tenses

Interactive Diagrams in Primary School Teaching

Think It! is an innovative suite of software applications developed in Adobe Flash. The package enables teachers to generate exercises to help learners learn across Key Stages 1-2 and by developing their skills of comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and meta-cognition. This resource is specifically tailored for use with the Interactive Whiteboard as well as individual work stations. All activities can also be printed out to use in the classroom.

See examples below of how to use the various components for different primary subjects.

Living Graph (Maths example)

Living Graph allows the user to input a series of events which can be placed on the graph in chronological order to take into account the factors (determined by the user) on the Y axis.

Note-It (Homophones)

Note It! allows the user to create a bank of notes, ideas or concepts that can be colour coded for categorisation, sequencing or used as a mapping tool.

Venn Diagram (Maths example)

An old favourite! The user determines the nature of each of the three circles (a double venn diagram is also inlcuded in the product) and is able to create text boxes which must then be categorised within the diagram. This version is somewhat different as it lets the user drag each choice into the required location.

Jigsaw (Chronology and Time example)

Jigsaw allows the user to create interlocking jigsaw pieces which can then be ordered by learners to recount a story or to link ideas and concepts.

On installation, Think It! creates a folder called “My Think It!” files where the user can save all exercises created within Think It!

Thinking Skills: create your own interactive diagrams

Think It! is an innovative suite of software applications developed in Adobe Flash. The package enables teachers to generate exercises to help learners learn across the Key Stages and Curriculum subjects by developing their ability to think, sort and categorise. Think It! contains five Thinking Skills software applications:

• Note It!
• Living Graph
• Double Venn Diagram
• Triple Venn Diagram
• Jigsaw

Each application can be used to create and save pre-made exercises for use on the interactive whiteboard or across a network or for learners to use to enhance and record their learning.

French Verb and Tense Grammar Bank

French Verb Grammar Bank is a suite of grammar lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard or independent access that complements any course book. This comprehensive and engaging Verb and Tense teaching resource will save teachers many hours of preparation time and raise learner achievement.

OfSTED’s June 2005 report into the successful learning of MFL highlights the need for a solid grammatical understanding. French Verb and Tense Grammar Bank from Firefly Learning is designed to meet this objective.

The product contains introductions, formal grammar notes, practice and interactive testing for all tenses required to achieve top grades at GCSE and A level. The 250+ slides are an essential addition to all schemes of learning and enhance teaching and learning by encouraging Thinking Skills and the deduction of grammatical pattern.

French Verb and Tense Grammar Bank has been accredited by Promethean and awarded the PrometheanActivboard “Friendly” Kitemark. Following rigorous testing on a range of criteria, this kitemark is only awarded to software that works perfectly with an Activboard and adds value to the learning experience.

French Verb and Tense Grammar Bank’s unique features include:

• Access of lessons through a Central Index page
• Presentation of grammar points to encourage active thinking and learning
• Concise grammar notes for learners to record
• Practice material to ensure full understanding
• Over 50 fully interactive tense testing activities with feedback
• Ready made tests with answers to assess learners’ progress
• Grammar points cross-referenced with hyperlinks
• Attractive, clearly designed and animated pages with many images
• Easy navigation throughout the resource
• Electronic teacher notes to explain the various elements of each slide

If you would like to trial or buy any of our products simply visit our website

Inserting Accents made easy

The International Assistant

This new accent tool enables the user to simply insert characters and symbols from a range of 11 languages into the most commonly used applications including Word, PowerPoint®, ACTIVstudio , SMART Board software and popular E-mail programmes such as Outlook / Outlook Express and Macintosh Mail. Why not download our demo to find out how The International Assistant can make typing accents easy for you! International Assistant is competitively priced and represents excellent value for individuals and institutions. Find out more...

Welcome

In response to customer comments, we have completely redesigned our website. We think you will like it, especially as we are offering a 20% discount on our range of resources until 15th January 2009! (See below right for further details.)

If you have not visited our site before, we offer a range of interactive teaching resources designed to engage pupils and move their learning forward.

As we are sure you will wish to explore our resources in detail, we have included demonstration versions, product presentations and freely downloadable resources on this site for you to use in your classroom. Have fun exploring!

As all of our resources are ordered and delivered electronically from our website without postage and packaging costs we are able to ensure they are both environmentally sound and very competitively priced compared to resources from other publishers. By all means shop around but we are confident you will be back!

We look forward to having the opportunity to support you and your learners. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information.

Kind regards,

The Firefly Learning Team

GCSE Oral exam revision and practice

“J’ai une question!” is the ideal whiteboard or networkable resource to teach pupils to prepare, practise and develop spontaneity and confidence in their GCSE oral question answers. The resource also focuses on giving justified opinions to allow pupils to meet the criteria for the highest grades. It is designed to aid and engage learners and represents excellent value for money.

“J’ai une question!” has been accredited by Promethean and awarded the PrometheanActivboard “Friendly” Kitemark. Following rigorous testing on a range of criteria, this kitemark is only awarded to software that works perfectly with an Activboard and adds value to the learning experience.

“J’ai une question!” is attractively designed within PowerPoint and contains over 70 suggested GCSE oral questions covering a full range of tenses, as well as several interactive activities which consolidate pupils' learning. The resource is divided into six topic areas accessible from a central index.

The topic areas include:

• Leisure
• Tourism
• Environment
• Personal Relationships
• Education and Work
• Home Life

"J’ai une question!” allows teachers, or students working independently, to access this range of questions and explore prompts to assist them in fully answering the questions. Each question has a series of five prompts which offer learners various colour coded options to help them complete their answer. A button link from each question allows the teaching and learning of a range of positive and negative opinion words and justification of opinions.

Once answers have been explored and prepared, the resource can be used as a starter or plenary to aid ongoing revision as pupils memorise their structured answer before the prompt disappears from the screen. “J’ai une question!” can be adapted by teachers with a basic knowledge of PowerPoint who may wish to alter the phrasing of some of the questions to suit their classes.

If you would like to trial any of our products simply visit our website

Think It! Create your own diagrams

Think It! is an innovative suite of software applications developed in Adobe Flash. The package enables teachers to generate exercises to help learners learn across Key Stages 1-2 and by developing their skills of comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and meta-cognition. This resource is specifically tailored for use with the Interactive Whiteboard as well as individual work stations. All activities can also be printed out to use in the classroom. See examples here