SmartBoards/ Interactive whiteboards
I found a video on smart boards by Mary Lehman. She is an elementay school teacher at Stony Brook School. She talks about the uses of smart boards and how it is used so her students can interact with the content being taught to the class.
Mary uses the smart board during transitional times as well as for English and math lessons. Interactive smartboard lessons are taught in a whole groups or individually.
Students enjoy using the Smartboard in Mary’s class because; they can make objects move, it is fun and interesting.
I haven’t had the opportunity to use a Smartboard as yet, but when I do I hope that my students will enjoy and interact with the learning tool as much as these children were.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
perhaps you’ll receive an opportunity on prac Sari? We wrote a paper comparing and contrasting IWBs with student generated video projects … it’s interesting to think about the influence of new technologies on our teaching approaches - more later. meanwhile, here’s a report we did on IWBs in K-12: http://www.ed-dev.uts.edu.au/teachered/research/iwbproject/home.html