EdWare Learning USA Blog

Over the past two days ash clouds from the errupting volcano on Iceland under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, has been disrupting European flights. Below you will find some excellent links and useful information, very interesting cloud maps, photos, and video regarding this.

These are great to show the class using an interactive whiteboard or data projector, really bring the news into perspective and incorporates geography too.

Quick Facts:
-Eyjafjallajokull is a small glacier located in south-west Iceland.
-The glacier covers an area of about 100 sq km (39 sq miles).
-The volcano is 1,666 meters or 5,466 ft in height, under the icecap.
-The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 3-4 km (1.9-2.5 miles) .
-The last time the volcano erupted was between 1821 and 1823.

Cloud Map
http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271309704.png
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/iceland-volcano-plume.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43252

Articles:
National Geographic:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100415-volcanic-ash-cancels-flights-airports-airline-europe-iceland-volcano/

BBC News Article & Video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8621407.stm

New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/04/paul-marks-technology-correspo.html

Amazing Video from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8578576.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8586442.stm


I hope you find these links as interesting as I do. Also if you wish to learn more about Iceland and Europe please try our Know Your Europe software.

Labels: Know Your Europe, School Resource

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on the 17 March and we have prepared a PDF worksheet with some great maps of Ireland and a flag you can color. The worksheet is great for learning about Ireland's major cities and counties and perfect for printing to use in the classroom. Download the Ireland PDF Document (1.13MB).

Try our online game too to test your knowledge of the counties of Ireland, Play Now.


Like our resources, learn more about our award winning geography software; Know Your USA for learning all about the United States, and Know Your Europe for learning all about Europe. Both are great for the classroom and work perfectly with all interactive whiteboards.

Labels: Know Your Ireland, School Resource

Know Your USA and Know Your Europe work perfectly with all interactive whiteboards. Using our software with an interactive whiteboard is a great way to teach US and European geography.

Know Your USA and Know Your Europe now come with a selection of high quality maps of each state and country. Each map is layered so the teacher or student can remove the physical features and name labels. We have also included a selection of new drawing tools, so you can draw directly onto the map, and even drag the state capitals and position cities correctly.

Everything is full screen, our software is designed for native interactive whiteboard resolution at 1024x768. The maps, text and images are crisp, want to see your state flag full screen, just click on it, great for teaching.

Labels: Interactive Whiteboard, Know Your USA

We have been busy over the past few weeks getting videos uploaded to YouTube of Know Your USA in action. This weekend we uploaded High Definition videos to our channel. This is a great way to see our software in action, over the coming weeks we will be uploading more videos, including videos of the all new Know Your Europe.

Visit our YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/EdWareLearning


Other News:
We are currently re-developing our website which will go live in early 2010.

Labels: Know Your USA, Media, News

EdWare visited the great city of Jacksonville, Florida in November 2009 as part of a trade delegation organized by the Atlantic Way and Cornerstone. We had the opportunity to meet some of the great minds in education while there and we really enjoyed the week.

In the photo Luke Curley of EdWare is explaining his educational software Know Your USA and Know Your Europe to the Mayor of Jacksonville; John Peyton.

Labels: Conference, News

Know Your Europe 2.1 is now available to download from our website. We are currently updating our website and will be moving over to www.edwarelearning.com by the end of the year, but before the launch of the new site you can download the Know Your Europe (30 Day Trial) below.

Try Know Your Europe 2.1 today and learn all about Europe and the EU.

Download Know Your Europe - Home Edition or the School Edition (30 day trial), both files are 52.1 MB in size and are compressed zip files.

Know Your Europe helps people of all ages to develop and expand their knowledge of European geography through quizzes, puzzles and games.

Know Your Europe is excellent for classroom teaching and works great with an interactive whiteboard, but is also excellent for group work, or one-on-one.

Labels: Know Your Europe, News

We are currently recording a series of videos of our software in use on an Interactive Whiteboard. Once these video are posted on YouTube we will update here, our software works great with all interactive whiteboards, version 1.6 now includes advance features designed with this in mind.

Labels: Interactive Whiteboard, Know Your Europe, Know Your USA