Diana Bannister MBEDevelopment Director for Learning Technologies

School for Education FuturesUniversity of Wolverhampton

United Kingdom

DianaBannister@wlv.ac.uk

28th March 2012

Making the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard

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.

This is now available free in several languages here.

A few questions

Do you have an interactive whiteboard or interactive projector?

How long have you had an interactive whiteboard?

Where is the IWB in your classroom?

Do you have different types of IWB in school?

Have you received any training?

Do you create your own resources?

Have you observed anyone else using an IWB?

Some common challenges

How shall I organise my classroom?

What are the learning objectives

for the lesson?

Where can I find resources?

What other activities will the students do within the lesson?

(Outputs)

Will the students go to the IWB?

What if it doesn’t work?

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

Toolkits and Templates

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

Toolkits and templates

Created from the templates in Promethean ActivInspire

Toolkits and templates

Created from the lesson toolkit in SMART notebook

Today’s target is:

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?

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.

Using Text

• Your materials will look professional• Students will find it easier to read• Most software has handwriting recognition

– this can be good for labelling drawings

How much of your lesson do you prepare in

advance?

Hidden Information on Screen

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.

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.

Drag and Drop

• This helps to involve students in your lessons – but don’t make it too easy!

Rub and Reveal

Adding Hyperlinks1. Have you got internet access in your

classroom?2. Hyperlinks enable you to keep your

information all within your flipchart/notebook/authoring tools

3. Use video

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?

Stacking, Cloning, Infinite Cloning

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

Layering

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.

Resources

IdentifyDevelop

CreateModify

Evaluate Share

1. Can staff and pupils access the lesson resources? In school? At home?

Within the lesson? Beyond the lesson?2. How are lesson resources shared?

Other devices• Learner Response

Systems• Document Cameras/

Visualisers• Digital Cameras

• And don’t forget simple tools like dry wipe boards for each pupil.

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

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

“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

5 Key Actions1. Develop a learning and teaching team in school2. Develop a ‘techno’ team of students3. Find opportunities to share practice4. Create and share a resource5. Observe someone else teach

1. Look at the role of the teacher and the students in the classroom

2. Make a note of the questions that are asked

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: 97816152071522. See EuSCRIBE full report on EUN website here

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

Any Questions?

What have you learnt today?

Resource from Promethean ActivInspire

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