The Joy of the Interactive

Whiteboard

Why it’s great…. You can direct the students’ attention

It’s ‘active’ & they like using it

It doesn’t take long to master the basics

I use it… as a ‘conventional’ board (but with

typed text) with PowerPoint to provide lesson

structure and stimulus to ‘unroll’ poems and other texts to analyse the presentation features

and content of websites to show programmes or films on a

‘big screen’

The ‘conventional’ board you can ‘create’ flipcharts in

advance of the lesson you can use as many pages as

you like, returning to previous points for revision & reminders

you can move text around, hide it, annotate over it and use the kind of presentation features you would in a word document

PowerPoint you can use your PowerPoint presentation ‘interactively’

sound effects and animations add interest

students’ own presentations have more impact

Now read the mystery of the Mary Celeste

What do you think happened? Discuss the possibilities in your groups.

‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage The images

of Batman and Robin are taken from the TV series from the 70s

‘Unrolling’ poems or texts

The spotlight tool allows you to control what the students look at on the board

The notes feature lets you add keywords or points

Using the web you can use a website interactively

you can take a photo of the website and annotate it