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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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzL1NYi3Y8

Here is a great slide show on Interactivity. It gives you examples of the 2 types of interaction; human – computer interaction and human interaction. It also reflects on the components of interactivity; feedback, control, productivity, creativity, communication, and adaptivity. This slide show gives you examples of tools to promote interactivity in your classroom learning environment such as;Scratch, Wikispaces, EduBlogs, GoogleDocs, Voicethread, Viddler, Houndbite, Bubble Share, Tabblo and Slideshare.Why don’t you check these tools out and incorporate them into your ICT lesson plans!