Making the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard

1. Making the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard Diana Bannister MBEDevelopment Director for Learning TechnologiesSchool for Education FuturesUniversity of WolverhamptonUnited KingdomDianaBannister@wlv.ac.uk28th March 2012

2. Objectives • To provide an overview of the effective use of interactive whiteboards and other interactive technologies within the Primary and Secondary classroom. • To explore the structure of lessons using the interactive whiteboard • To identify some of the key issues that practitioners need to address when developing and delivering their lesson materials. • To identify some key websites for you to visit and share some techniques that you could try within your classroom.

3. This is now available free in several languages here.

4. A few questions

6. Lesson Structure • It is not an interactive whiteboard lesson! • Think about what you do in an ordinary lesson and integrate the IWB as a tool to help you with your teaching. • Starter Activity • Main Activity - What will the students do? • Plenary

7. Tools, Techniques and Applications

8. Toolkits and Templates • Find them and use them • Adapt them • Share them • Enable your students to be familiar • Structure your lessons with them

9. Toolkits and templates Created from the templates in Promethean ActivInspire

10. Toolkits and templates Created from the lesson toolkit in SMART notebook

11. Today’s target is:

12. Software • Do you have access to the latest version? • Is your technician aware of how to access them? • Gallery, Clipart and Pictures • Have you got access outside your classroom?

13. Pens and Highlighters • Remember not all students can read too much text on screen. • It can be helpful for some students to draw words or highlight certain information. • Writing on the IWB is a good thing! (Mostly) • Be spontaneous – capture ideas. • SAVE your lesson.

14. Using Text How much of your lesson do you prepare in advance? • Your materials will look professional • Students will find it easier to read • Most software has handwriting recognition – this can be good for labelling drawings

15. Hidden Information on Screen

16. Blind, Revealer, Screenshade • This helps when you want the students to see a little bit of information. • You can also use it to cover up unnecessary details.

17. Spotlight tools • Sometimes there is too much information on screen • Some students need help to focus on the detail. • Some students may be thinking something different.

18. Drag and Drop • This helps to involve students in your lessons – but don’t make it too easy!

19. Rub and Reveal

20. Adding Hyperlinks • Have you got internet access in your classroom? • Hyperlinks enable you to keep your information all within your flipchart/notebook/authoring tools • Use video

21. Grouping • This makes it much easier to move information. Why should we group things together? Why should we group things together? Why should we group things together?

22. Stacking, Cloning, Infinite Cloning

23. Timers • Give the students thinking time • Give the students talking time • What about the challenge? • Do your students have targets?

24. Layering

25. Locking and Unlocking • Your objects can be locked to a page…this is particularly useful if students are coming up to the IWB • You will need to unlock objects to be able to adapt someone else’s material.

26. Resources Can staff and pupils access the lesson resources? In school? At home? Within the lesson? Beyond the lesson? 2. How are lesson resources shared?

27. Other devices • Learner Response Systems • Document Cameras/ Visualisers • Digital Cameras • And don’t forget simple tools like dry wipe boards for each pupil.

28. Some websites… • Whiteboard blog • www.topmarks.co.uk • http://lreforschools.eun.org • nRich • MyiMaths

29. …and Online Communities • Promethean Planet • SMART exchange • Einstruction • Mimio • RM easilearn

30. “The whiteboard is not a magic carpet. It will not float into your classroom and whisk your troubles away. It is more like investing in a new house, certain things are in place when you agree to the purchase, not all of it is organised as you would like, but with the careful gathering of the things you need, and a few new installations, it soon begins to feel familiar. However, it will need continued love, investment and maintenance to ensure that it remains adequate to be your C21st home.” Diana Bannister 2010

31. 5 Key Actions • Develop a learning and teaching team in school • Develop a ‘techno’ team of students • Find opportunities to share practice • Create and share a resource • Observe someone else teach • Look at the role of the teacher and the students in the classroom • Make a note of the questions that are asked

32. Research and Evidence • Collate evidence of your practice in school • Share ideas, share practice • Make a network • Read: 1. Thomas, Michael and Euline Cutrim Schmid.(2010) Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research and Practice. Hershey, USA IGI Global. ISBN13: 9781615207152 2. See EuSCRIBE full report on EUN website here

33. Becoming Confident with IWB… • Courses December 2012 and March 2013 • Funding available • Apply now to your National Agency • Further information available here An opportunity for Training and Continuing Professional Development

34. Any Questions?

35. What have you learnt today? Resource from Promethean ActivInspire

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