Students perform better when they are better able to hear their teachers. National Geographic Magazine article (July 2002) reported if students cannot hear their teacher then they not only lose the desire to learn but also the ability to learn. The ability to learn centres on how well the brain receives incoming signals or information from the teacher. In a classroom enhanced with Activsound, every student can clearly hear the teacher speaking in a normal tone, without a raised voice.Designed to be simple and convenient to use, the teacher wears a wireless microphone that allows them to speak in a normal one-on-one voice, and the students respond with handheld wireless microphones.

The sound is transmitted through an amplifier so that it's distributed equally and can only be heard in that room.  Put simply, teachers and students communicate better and achieve greater results with Activsound audio enhancement systems in their classroom.

Activote -Give Your Pupils and Students a Voice.

	Activote is Promethean’s integrated personal response system that is designed to encourage whole class participation and enhance learning. By enabling each pupil to “have a voice”, the opinions, thought processes or feelings of a whole class can instantly be shared and addressed accordingly.  This could be as straight forward as determining whether pupils are following a lesson, or it could be the basis for planned discussion.  And it's all done by asking students to make a choice and click a button.
	Capturing student responses when they are questioned can be a powerful tool in influencing the direction of a lesson or the planning of future work.  Activote allows the answers of each pupil to be saved for retrieval later -  individually or as a class.  Results can also be exported to Excel for record keeping and further analysis where appropriate. Deliberately simple to use (so that the technology doesn’t interfere with the Teaching and Learning), the system is equally effective in the Foundation Stage as it is within Higher Education.
	Although lower-case lettered handsets are available for younger children, age differentiation is made mainly through the choice of either piece of Promethean’s award-winning software (Activprimary or Activstudio).Enriching learning in this way is available to everyone as Activote works with any interactive whiteboard.  It also has the ability to work independently of an interactive whiteboard, making it a mobile solution too.  Communicating through radio technology eliminates the need for students to point devices in order to cast their vote.
	Flexibility is key in any learning environment hence why Activote can be used is several ways.  Integrated into Promethean’s software it can be used ad-hoc, allowing teachers to ask unplanned questions as they occur.  However, it also works effortlessly over any application or website.  Similarly, teachers can choose between using the supplied pre-prepared content and easily making their own with the aid of the inbuilt Question Master Wizard