Awards

 2005 Award of Excellence – Teaching & Learning

Promethean, a global interactive education leader, was named a 2005 Awards of Excellence winner by Technology & Learning magazine for its ACTIVstudio version 2 lesson development software.

Software and Web products being honored in the Technology & Learning magazine’s prestigious 23-year-old recognition program included innovative applications that break new ground and also best-of-breed examples that demonstrated clear superiority over similar products in the market.

This year's Technology & Learning magazine curriculum product winners were chosen by more than 30 educator-judges who test-drove the more than 130 entries, logging in many hours in computer labs at San Francisco Bay Area schools.  This year’s selections include numerous Web, CD, and DVD-based programs, as well as software running on handheld devices and several special hardware/software combination packages.  Among the high-quality offerings recognized this year were math and science programs that encourage students to think critically, cutting-edge presentation tools, a range of communication and collaboration applications, data management resources, and much more.

"Our educator-judges deemed this year's winners to be the most effective and innovative products on the market today," said Associate Publisher/Executive Editor Amy Poftak. "We're pleased to bestow the Awards of Excellence honor on such a distinguished group."  An integral component to the Promethean Collaborative Classroom, ACTIVstudio2 works hand in hand with the Promethean interactive whiteboard to empower teachers to deliver rich, animated and sound-enabled content to enliven classroom experiences and learning.  By incorporating a new expanded resource library that teachers can use to quickly develop collaborative lessons for the Promethean ACTIVboard interactive whiteboard, ACTIVstudio2 encourages collaboration among teachers and turns the lesson creation software into a district-wide curriculum delivery vehicle.  Lessons can be saved locally or to a central storage point and catalogued by keywords (e.g., state standards, topic, grade level, subject, activity type).