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An interactive whiteboard is the electronic version of a regular whiteboard, a white glossy surface that uses erasable markers and can play the same role as a chalkboard. IWB's are connected to a computer and digital projector and allow information projected on the screen to be manipulated with special pens or one's hands. Collaboration sites such as Promethean Planet allow teachers to access IWB resources to create lesson plans, projects, animations, and much more. Programs such as ActivInspire are used for Promethean Planet. It is an authorizing software teachers use to create IWB materials. Another popular IWB used in classrooms is the SMART Technology's SMART Board. The programs for both whiteboards can support student learning. They hold a resource bank of images, graphic tools, and text tools to create slides in the same way one would use Powerpoint for instruction. For example, teachers may introduce a topic or develop a lesson that allows students to move objects around on the whiteboard or touch the screen to select or enter a mathematical problem. I hope to use IWB's to lecture, give examples, and allow my students to interact with it.
Whiteboards have become very popular in schools and classes K-12. They are found in many classrooms. Drawings and notations can be saved to a computer to be distributed or printed out for handouts. Although a breakthrough in technology, there are issues that arise. Because a computer an projector is required to operate whiteboard, the presence of trailing cords through the classroom may pose a danger to students. Notes and figures on the whiteboard are obscured when teachers stand in front of it to write and projected light may become hard on students' eyes making difficult for them to process content. And also, like all technology devices malfunctions will occur from time to time. In spite of this, interactive whiteboards serve as an aid to higher learning.
Whiteboards have become very popular in schools and classes K-12. They are found in many classrooms. Drawings and notations can be saved to a computer to be distributed or printed out for handouts. Although a breakthrough in technology, there are issues that arise. Because a computer an projector is required to operate whiteboard, the presence of trailing cords through the classroom may pose a danger to students. Notes and figures on the whiteboard are obscured when teachers stand in front of it to write and projected light may become hard on students' eyes making difficult for them to process content. And also, like all technology devices malfunctions will occur from time to time. In spite of this, interactive whiteboards serve as an aid to higher learning.