Interactive Whiteboards - The Basic Skills
This page deals with the basic skills required to effectively incorporate the IWB into the primary classroom. It also discusses the key uses of the IWB and just how fantastic its use can be for teacher, child and classroom environment as a learning tool.
Contents for this section:
Contents for this section:
- Using Interactive Whiteboards - the basics
- Looking at the more advanced uses...IWB Session
- So why are IWBs effective in classrooms?
- Effective mind-mapping tools
Some of the PGCE Students testing out the IWBs
Using Interactive Whiteboards - the basics
At the very beginning of the course, we were made are of the advantages of using the IWB in the classroom. This meant getting to grips with the basics before we started in a school - here are some of the tutorials we were given to watch...
Looking at the more advanced uses...
We than began to look at the more advanced uses of the IWBs and how these could be incorporated into the everyday classroom.
IWB Session
During week 5 of the course, we spent a session with Zeta McCormick who took us through the basics of using the IWBs.
This proved to be a really useful session as we were fully aware of the advantages of using the IWB during classes. We also looked at some lesson examples and activities that could be used as templates/ideas for future planning to be adapted.
Here are 56 interesting ways to use your IWB in the classroom!
In addition, I have downloaded the SMART software onto my home laptop so that during placement I will be able to prepare interactive activities that can then be used in the classroom.
SMART Exchange is also an excellent tool for teachers to share resources that can be used and adapted to suit your class. Such templates are ideal which can then be used to incorporate your own teaching materials, which can be changed and personalised to your needs and the needs of your group.
I have signed up to SMART Exchange in order to exchange ideas and also be inspired by the ideas of others.
Here is just one of the useful presentations that I have discovered that could be used as a starter activity in mathematics
So why are IWBs effective in classrooms?
IWBs allow children to have hands on experience with the developing technological world. They can collect their ideas together which can be written and represented visually in no time at all.
Mind-maps can be created,posters, videos and presentations - all of which can give the children a real sense of achievement to see their work on the 'big-screen'.
Effective mind-mapping tools
There are a number of useful mind-mapping tools available on the internet, one of these is bubbl - this is an effective way to quickly collect the ideas from children and present them efficiently and effectively to the class. This kind of visual support can truly help those children who struggle to remember a number of ideas. The constant reminders that a visual mind-map provides can help children progress in their own thinking by building upon what has already been discussed. I have seen this in one particular school where the parts of a story were being discussed, the ideas were collected on a mind-map and the children were then set to task to create their own beginning, middle and end. All children used the mind-map as a platform to which they could then add their own ideas.
At the very beginning of the course, we were made are of the advantages of using the IWB in the classroom. This meant getting to grips with the basics before we started in a school - here are some of the tutorials we were given to watch...
- Basic Accessibility
- Stop frame animation - the magical classroom
- IWB Teacher Training
Looking at the more advanced uses...
We than began to look at the more advanced uses of the IWBs and how these could be incorporated into the everyday classroom.
IWB Session
During week 5 of the course, we spent a session with Zeta McCormick who took us through the basics of using the IWBs.
This proved to be a really useful session as we were fully aware of the advantages of using the IWB during classes. We also looked at some lesson examples and activities that could be used as templates/ideas for future planning to be adapted.
Here are 56 interesting ways to use your IWB in the classroom!
In addition, I have downloaded the SMART software onto my home laptop so that during placement I will be able to prepare interactive activities that can then be used in the classroom.
SMART Exchange is also an excellent tool for teachers to share resources that can be used and adapted to suit your class. Such templates are ideal which can then be used to incorporate your own teaching materials, which can be changed and personalised to your needs and the needs of your group.
I have signed up to SMART Exchange in order to exchange ideas and also be inspired by the ideas of others.
Here is just one of the useful presentations that I have discovered that could be used as a starter activity in mathematics
So why are IWBs effective in classrooms?
IWBs allow children to have hands on experience with the developing technological world. They can collect their ideas together which can be written and represented visually in no time at all.
Mind-maps can be created,posters, videos and presentations - all of which can give the children a real sense of achievement to see their work on the 'big-screen'.
Effective mind-mapping tools
There are a number of useful mind-mapping tools available on the internet, one of these is bubbl - this is an effective way to quickly collect the ideas from children and present them efficiently and effectively to the class. This kind of visual support can truly help those children who struggle to remember a number of ideas. The constant reminders that a visual mind-map provides can help children progress in their own thinking by building upon what has already been discussed. I have seen this in one particular school where the parts of a story were being discussed, the ideas were collected on a mind-map and the children were then set to task to create their own beginning, middle and end. All children used the mind-map as a platform to which they could then add their own ideas.