Interactive Grammar Lessons on Promethean Planet Designed to Boost Student Participation

ATLANTA, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Promethean, a global leader in interactive education technology solutions, announced a new collection of interactive grammar courses designed to help students develop critical language arts and writing skills. The new English Grammar II Essential course is being offered through a strategic partnership between Promethean Planet and Core Learning, an innovative publisher of K-12 digital content.

"Our goal is to give teachers curriculum that encourages student participation and fosters a greater understanding and use of language arts concepts. We are delighted to offer this resource to the hundreds of thousands of teachers who are exploring new ways to make their Promethean ActivClassrooms even more effective," said Core Learning President and CEO, Douglas Hatch.

The course has forty-one lessons that explain sentence structure and development, punctuation and capitalization as well as how to properly use speech when writing. Different course activities allow students to participate in the classroom using the ActivPen, ActivBoard and a Learner Response System, such as ActivExpression or ActiVote. Each lesson includes notes for teachers to help guide instruction and pre-built assessments designed for the interactive whiteboard help teachers gauge how well students understand the concepts as they are being taught.

"As more and more teachers join Promethean Planet, our goal is to provide them with exceptional resources that help make learning more interactive for students. Beyond offering teachers access to a vast collection of quality content, we give them the opportunity to share best practices and ideas how to build a 21st century learning environment," commented Chief Strategy Officer Brent Taggart.

A free lesson from the course can be downloaded online at: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConGenericProduct.339. The course can be purchased and downloaded individually or as a complete program at the Promethean Planet Shop, an online store where educators can find a wide variety of digital content, including ActivInspire, the software needed to run this program on interactive whiteboards.

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 for teachers, Promethean's ActivClassroom brings together its interactive display systems (ActivBoard), its Learner Response Systems (ActiVote and ActivExpression), and its suite of specialized teaching software (ActivInspire). They 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

500,000 members, the rapidly growing Promethean Planet (www.PrometheanPlanet.com) is the world's largest online community for users of interactive learning technology, providing user- generated and premium content and is a forum for teachers to exchange ideas and experience. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in nine countries, Promethean's technology is today helping educate over 12 million individuals in over 500,000 classrooms in some 100 countries. www.PrometheanWorld.com

About Core Learning

Core Learning Ltd. is an educational publisher of software, books, multi-curricular projects and online learning applications. Based in Toronto, Canada and Philadelphia, USA , its curriculum content is designed to address national and major state and provincial curriculum standards applicable to the North American K-12 education market. Additional information can be found at: http://www.core-learning.com/.

SOURCE Promethean