Margaret Allen

An experienced primary school teacher, Margaret delivers presentations throughout the world, showing how ICT can be used to bring lessons to life. A passionate advocate of the central importance of engaging young children in learning, Margaret has worked with major publishers and software houses, advising them on how their products can illuminate teaching and learning.

She has become a sought-after author of articles about the positive effects of the use of whiteboard technology in the classroom, and how it can enrich learning. She appeared on the BBC’s “Child of our Time” series, demonstrating how story telling is core to children’s language development.

She firmly believes that collaboration and physical engagement is core to children’s experience in the classroom. In her presentations, Margaret enthusiastically promotes the benefits that technology brings to learning – and she inspires her audiences to go away and try it for themselves.

Activprimary V3
 
Topic 1 The Dashboard

The first thing you see when you open Activprimary is the dashboard. What's great about it is that it keeps everything in one place...

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Topic 2 Flipchart Builder

In this topic, we're looking at how to create lessons quickly and easily. The Flipchart Builder provides you with a great way to do this...

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Topic 3 Point and Click Programming

While the prospect of making your lesson interactive may sound a bit daunting, in actual fact it's really very simple...

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Topic 4 Resources

In Activprimary, the resources are tailored to meet the needs of young learners, so they include images relating to fairy tales...

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Topic 5 Primary Focussed Features

As well as having real visual appeal, the Activprimary interface is incredibly simple to use. We developed Activprimary software to include a wealth of features...

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30-04-2007