Interactive Whiteboards in our schools!
“An interactive whiteboard (IWB), is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer’s desktop onto the board’s surface where users control the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or other device. The board is typically mounted to a wall or floor stand.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_whiteboard
Starboard interactive whiteboards are finally in our classrooms boosting our teaching. The boards that are being mounted are the Hitachi Starboard Whiteboards and teachers control their laptop using a pen onto the board’s surface.
IWBs may be used in various ways. Here are a few tips:
- Whole class teaching
- Creating whole class stories
- Students present projects to their peers
- Digital story telling
- Surfing the internet
- Saving notes for future reference
- Whole class online educational games and quizzes
- Pupils contributing their ideas by writing directly on the board
- Google earth
- Use the highlighter tool to highlight rhyming words in poems, verbs, nouns, etc
- Use line tool for matching exercises
- Use the eraser tool to reveal answers
- Use the paint tool to fill in various shapes in different colours. Eg colour the hexagon yellow
- Insert direct links to the internet.
- Insert video files (flv format) in starboard file
Check on the following site to download resources using Starboard:
http://www.hitachistarboard.com.au/
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