Using Interactive Using Interactive WhiteboardWhiteboard

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Agenda

• Define interactive

• Discuss how interactive whiteboards are used

• Looking at software

• Finding & Exploring resources

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Define: Interactive

• media that allows the user to influence and react to it.

• continuous two-way transfer of information between a computer and its user.

• Implies that the user exert some control, and not just be a passive page-turner recipient.

Student Interaction

http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk/ftp/whiteboard.pdf

Interactionprovides

the teacherwith insightinto student

thinking process

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Interaction allows for

collaboration

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…enhances peer learning

…and requires higher level thinking

How is this different from…

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This…

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Does this make a

difference?

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• The inventor or introducer of [this] system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not among the greatest benefactors of mankind.

• The inventor or introducer of [this] system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not among the greatest benefactors of mankind.

Josiah Bumstead, 1841: Speaking of Invention of the “blackboard system”

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• Next came the statement in 1940 that “the motion picture is the most revolutionary instrument introduced into education since the printing press”.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES: MIRAGE OR MIRACLE?

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History...1960s: The overhead projector hits

the big time in classrooms everywhere.

2005: “Monochrom” composes song called “Farewell to Overhead.”

Goal: Use the board for much, much more than to merely project

notes.

Robert McElroy, esnips.com

wikipedia.com

Using Easiteach to build interactive lessons

Tutorial Video

Sample Easiteach Lessons

Notebook Software

• Create/Save Notes, Drawings, etc. • Access thousands of free

– Images and templates– Interactive/educational content– Advanced drawing tools

Before lunch….

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Don’t get STUCK on the

software…

After lunch….

We will explore

other resources to use with

Interactive Whiteboard

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Strategies for InteractiveTeaching & Learning

• Enhancing Class Discussions• Modeling• Demonstrating• Annotating

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