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