Interactive Whiteboards make it easy for teachers and educators to enhance presentation content by effortlessly integrating a wide range of material into a lesson such as text from a Microsoft Word file, pictures from the Internet or content from a spreadsheet. They give teachers and educators the option to easily create and customise learning items from a range of existing content and adapt it to the requirements of the students in real time.
Interactive Whiteboards are also the ideal teaching tool to present student work to the entire classroom or lecture theatre. They are perfect for showing video clips that easily explain complicated concepts and enable users to capture lesson notes, brainstorm ideas, do demonstrations and load annotation tools, websites, documents or presentation slides. Teachers can create drawings or concept maps in class time that can be saved for future reference or given out to students as handouts for the lesson just presented. Teachers can perform on-line tests and opinion polls and present instant feedback to the entire classroom.
Another way Interactive Whiteboards make powerful presentations is with their record- ability factor so that the end product can be emailed or stored for following re-use or deconstructed to examine a process. Another great advantage is that they can connect with video conferencing systems.
Interactive whiteboards have been brilliant as part of a tactic to convince some techno phobic teachers that ICT does not have to be difficult and they can use ICT equipment such as the Interactive Whiteboards with ease and little training. If trained properly in the use of the Interactive Whiteboard teachers can use them in more flexible ways, enabling students to work at their own pace and in their own style. Also as more and more teachers are becoming increasingly creative in their teaching styles the whiteboards can be harnessed in countless imaginative ways to make learning more interesting and fun. They have the potential to make a great teacher even better by giving them more options in the way they teach. One way in which this can be done is with modified interactive whiteboard software that can further improve the experience of the Whiteboard.
Kevin Bradson has written lots of article on ICT Products which helps the student and teacher make their education Interactive. There are plenty of interactive whiteboard resources available online. If interactive whiteboards are to continue to be successful, then research into best practice and an understanding of where their educational benefits are at their best needs to continue. Interactive Education Ltd. helps you gain the most from your meetings and events by providing interactive group activities using DLP Projector, digital signage,educational content, that are designed to increase audience involvement and retention.
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