Promethean Planet membership Passes the Half Million mark
Membership doubles in one year
Blackburn, UK, 7th January 2010 — Promethean, a world leader in the rapidly growing global market for interactive learning technology, today announces that membership of Promethean Planet, www.PrometheanPlanet.com, has passed the half million mark, doubling in only one year. Promethean Planet was launched in 2006 and in less than four years has become the world's largest online community for users of interactive learning technology.
Available in ten languages with members in over 150 countries, Promethean Planet is free to join and enables teachers from around the globe to exchange ideas, share new and innovative lessons and have access to a wide variety of professional development materials. The site contains over 16,000 fully customable lesson resources for all ages, representing over 225,000 pages of teaching material, and includes premium interactive educational content from leading publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Waterford Institute, Harper Collins and Oxford University Press.
Promethean Planet received the Worlddidac Foundation Award for Excellence in Education in 2008. Recent monthly statistics show that there were more than 250,000 unique visits, 5 million page views and over 550,000 downloads on the site[1]. Planet is currently supported in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh and Arabic.
Brent Taggart, Chief Strategy Officer commented: “Promethean Planet’s growth has surpassed all our expectations and has become the world’s leading online community of its kind. As well as providing an unrivalled resource base, helping teachers to prepare and make lessons more interactive, it is also a global forum for members to interact and share ideas. Its success plays a key role in helping to bring learning to life in the classroom.”
