Interactive+Whiteboards

Interactive whiteboards are whiteboards that have been turned into a computer monitor that you can alter what is showing on the screen.

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@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JdG5U8Uwhg This is a great video about using interactive whiteboards in a classroom. It shows you the Promethean version and al the different features that it has. One thing that I liked about this video is it showed you how easy it is to use in a classroom. It also showed that it can make learning more interactive and fun for students.

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNVcD5ADK8 This video shows how nice an interactive whiteboard is in a math situation. I like how it puts humor into everyday situations such as a teacher erasing notes before a student copies them all down. It also goes through some of the cool math options that interactive whiteboards can do.

I used an interactive whiteboard when I was giveing a leeson plan for my art class. I used a SmartBoard at Wilson Elementary school is Neenah, Wisconisn. During my lesson I just used the board to present my linear slideshow that I created. After the lesson was done and the class had left for the day, I asked the teacher if I could play around on her SmartBoard and what she mainly used it for. She said she used hers all the time. One of the features that I played around with was the writing pens and writng notes on it. The teacher used this mainly for at the end of the day she had an image that looked like thier assignment notesbooks. She would then write what theit homework was for the day in each subject using the pens. Another way she uses it is for spelling she has makes a game of their speeling words. One word on there spelling list will appear and the student have to organize the letters so it is the correct word.

Activities On the whiteboard their would be a picture of a cloud. Underneath the picture their would be the names of the three types of clouds that we have been learning about. Students would take turns cominh up to the interactive white board and circling the correct name of that cloud.

Another activity would be that the names of the different types of clouds and words associated with clouds would be on the board all messed up. The students would come to the board drag the letter in to the correct order to spell the word.