Rainbow Education has been supplying teaching resources to Irish schools for over a decade. Currently revolutionising the way teachers teach and children learn, the Interactive Whiteboard is taking classrooms by storm.

Rainbow Education recently commissioned MMID to develop a CD-Rom which explains what an Interactive Whiteboard is and what it does in an engaging manner. The CD-Rom features a 3 minute broadcast-quality advertisement and is packed with over two hours of concrete teaching examples easily accessible from both the CD-Rom and on-line. It is hoped that the CD-Rom will save Rainbow many hours, traditionally spent on the road, demonstrating the Interactive Whiteboard technology.

Economic doom and gloom has cast a long shadow over the Irish business landscape. And to top things off, we had the first ever October budget in the history of our state - maybe doom and gloom is an understatement!

Never short of ideas, award-winning visual communication agency Totem has decided to give their customers the opportunity to vent their spleen on the Minister for Finance and some smug economists this Halloween! Beautifully illustrated by Totem and developed by MMID, The Totem Halloween Shooting Game can be accessed at www.totem-interactive.com/halloween - best score wins one night's bed and breakfast in a Deluxe Terrace Room and dinner for two in the Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore, Co. Waterford. (MMID customers please refrain from outscoring Totem customers!)

www.waterfordtourism.ie is County Waterford's official tourism portal. An interactive mapping system developed by MMID based on the ever-popular Google Map system has recently been added to this ultimate tourism resource managed and updated by Waterford County Council. Click here and begin exploring The Crystal County.

Congratulations to FastForm Research, a long-time MMID customer, who has just signed a distribution deal with US firm DJO to sell its Multi Cast product.

DJO, which is one of the largest medical device distributors in the United States, will distribute the Multi Cast product, which offers an alternative to plaster of Paris and fibreglass casts, to hospitals and clinics in the US, Europe and Japan. "The contract with DJO offers us an exceptional opportunity initially to market our first product - the short arm cast - but DJO's established channels will also enable us to distribute our follow-on suite of splinting and orthopaedic products which are currently in the pipeline," said Fastform Research chief executive David Sheehan.

Time being of the essence in today's global economy, MMID has added a new secure media library system to the FastForm website to give DJO representatives worldwide access to the training video produced by MMID last month specifically for DJO.

Concluding a two year European project in which MMID has played a central role as the coordinator and lead partner, representatives from all institutions involved met in Nicosia (Cyprus) at the end of September in the context of the Annual Conference on Innovative Learning Environments.

The multiple intelligence framework for the design of virtual classes project was presented to an audience of international scholars, educators, policy makers and representatives from the Ministry of Education and Culture. Ideas about multiple intelligences and e-learning were shared and the challenges in using technology for educational reform discussed.

There are seven institutions involved in the project with partners from France, Cyprus, Turkey, the UK and Ireland. Pictured on the right is MMID Director Frank McNamee