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Interactive whiteboards
Submitted by praharsha on 16 August, 2008 - 09:41
Do you guys think interactive whiteboards will make a major impact in improving the teaching and learning process?
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Yes definetly.. this is the future.
Liliana Rodriguez Vega
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What they can do is make the classroom a much righer and more media rich and stimulating environment for learning and certainly that's a good thing. Best
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I think whiteboards are really interesting tools. Whichever multi-media activity, video, ppt presentation or website you want to show your students, it looks simply great. However, for this very reason, the danger of having the board as the main focus of everyone’s attention in the classroom cannot be lightly dismissed.
I couldn't agree more with Nik when he says that whiteboards are not necessarily interactive. It all depends on the way we use them. The activities we propose using WB should lead to greater student involvement and participation and actually their use should become something so integrated to our lessons and so naturally used that we almost *forget* that we are using it. It seems to me that we shouldn't make such a fuss of whiteboards- just give them their proper space in the classroom as we should give to books, media video or other more traditional tools.
I think whiteboards are great tools and that’s the way we should see them, as tools.
Chris Lima
Interactive Whiteboards can be just a novelty and lose its attraction after awhile. Instead of revolving the lessons around the interactive whiteboard, it should be instead used as a tool to assist the teacher in enhancing the lessons.
If only several classrooms in a school has the interactive whiteboard, it will be even harder for teachers to prepare and integrate the usage of the interactive whiteboard in the lessons. In this case, the interactive whiteboard may be potentially become a white elephant in the classroom as the teachers do not have access to the interactive whiteboard in every classroom. This scenario is common in my country as interactive whiteboards are too costly to be implemented in every classrooms.
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Boon Jin
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Far from the basic idea of the chalkboard, an interactive whiteboard is the 21st century version that enables the teacher to connect with the pupils in ways they could only have thought about previously. I think it is a good idea to use Interactive Whiteboards.
Well, interactive whiteboards are great! I have the opportunity to work with them in the school where I teach. I guess they allow me to do many activities which learning becomes more dynamic.
However, I think whiteboards do not have such a major impact as people seem to suggest. It is a tool we can use to get students involved, as many others we've been using over the years.
Classroom uses
Interactive whiteboards are utilized in numerous schools as replacements for customary whiteboards or flipcharts or video/media schemes for example a DVD player and television combination. Users can furthermore attach them to a school mesh digital video circulation scheme utilizing an interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards can furthermore combine with online distributed annotation and drawing environments in the pattern of interactive vector based graphical websites.
The programs provided with the interactive whiteboard will generally permit the educator to hold remarks and annotations as an electrical devices document for subsequent circulation either theoretically or through several electrical devices formats.
In supplement, some interactive whiteboards permit educators to record their direction as digital video documents and mail the material for reconsider by scholars at a subsequent time. This can be a very productive instructional scheme for scholars who advantage from repetition, who require to glimpse the material offered afresh, for scholars who are missing from school, for laboring learners, and for reconsider for examinations. Brief instructional blocks can be noted for reconsider by scholars — they will glimpse the accurate production that appeared in the school room with the teacher's audio input. This can assist change discovering and instruction.
We have interactive white boards in most classrooms in the UK and my wife being a teacher absolutely loves them and now the pupils expect and enjoy their lessons with them
They definitely are an improvement from chalk boards in a sense that there's a lot more you can do, you can present more material. What would be better is a solution that engages and keeps the student's attention.