The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution

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Chris Betcher

A slightly different angle 5 Replies

A the risk of sounding like an old bloke banging on about the same old stuff, I wrote this post in response to a discussion going on over at Classroom 2.0 about IWBs. It got lost in the noise over ...

Tagged: pedagogy, interactivity, revolution, iwb

Started by Chris Betcher in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Mary Ann 15 hours ago.

Julie Lecoq

Use of IWB in high school 5 Replies

I'm not sure this point has been raised already. It seems that the iwb is known as a usefull tool with young children and in secondary schools (in France at least), but it's more difficult to find ...

Tagged: teaching, practices, school, high, pedagogical

Started by Julie Lecoq in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Peter Kent 23 hours ago.

Chris Betcher

How does your IWB let you do New Things in New Ways? 16 Replies

I'm hoping I can get a bit of conversation and participation from the group on this one... I have always considered that IWB use evolves through three reasonably distinct phases; First, starting w...

Tagged: pedagogy, iwb, newthings

Started by Chris Betcher in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Chris Betcher Nov 17.

Jennifer W

Help w/ IWB and Doc Camera 1 Reply

Hello -- and thanks in advance. We were awarded a Smart Board and the teacher also won a Samsung Doc Camera.......... but they don't seem to wish to play nice with each other. I can capture imag...

Started by Jennifer W in How To. Last reply by Chuck Schlegel Nov 17.

Cheryl Thompson

Literacy and IWB's 3 Replies

When I get back to my classroom on Monday, I will have an IWB waiting for me. Although I am thrilled, I am also a little intimidated--I have no idea what to do with it!! I will, of course, be doing...

Started by Cheryl Thompson in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Chuck Schlegel Nov 17.

Heather Wolpert-Gawron

Robert Marzano and Interactive Whiteboards 32 Replies

This is a post from my www.tweenteacher.com website. I had just seen Robert Marzano speak at the CUE conference (Computer Using Educators). I've posted before about my long journey down the Interac...

Started by Heather Wolpert-Gawron in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Natalie Webb Nov 17.

Chris Betcher

The Great IWB Debate 14 Replies

Time for a bit of community brainstorming! Despite the probability that most of the members of this Ning are reasonably positive about the use of interactive whiteboards in their teaching, there a...

Tagged: positive, negative, iwb, podcast, discussion

Started by Chris Betcher in General IWB Discussion. Last reply by Monica O'Brien Nov 16.

Andrea McCarthy

IWB usage in Physical Education

My interactive white board is being installed next week and not in the gym, but my storage/yoga/pilates/weightroom space. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who may already be using one ...

Started by Andrea McCarthy in General IWB Discussion Nov 15.

Michael Thomas

Contribute to a special edition of AJET on Interactive Whiteboards in Australasia

Interactive Whiteboards: An Australasian Perspective A Special Issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Co-edited by Dr Michael Thomas & Dr Tony Jones Dear Everyone, We're ...

Started by Michael Thomas in General IWB Discussion Nov 10.

Chris Betcher

EdTalks video

When I was in New Zealand at the ULearn Conference recently I was invited to contribute to Core Education's EdTalks project, where they talk to teachers about various education related ideas. For ...

Started by Chris Betcher in General IWB Discussion Nov 4.

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Jeff Milburn and Mary Ann joined The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
6 hours ago
Mary Ann replied to Chris Betcher's discussion 'A slightly different angle'
Hey Chris, I enjoyed reading your posting, very eloquently put. My favourite quote is "...its not what happens on the IWB that matters. It's what happens because of what happens on the IWB that matters." I believe that nails it on the head. With y...
15 hours ago
Peter Kent replied to Julie Lecoq's discussion 'Use of IWB in high school'
Hi Julie, About the long term effectiveness BECTA has found that for good uses of ICT to translate to enhanced student learning the use of ICT needs to be embedded into a the majority of their subject areas. Even if you have the best integrator o...
23 hours ago
Rob Willemsen and Gail Laureen Byrnes joined The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
on Wednesday
Chris Betcher replied to Chris Betcher's discussion 'How does your IWB let you do New Things in New Ways?'
When I was in New Zealand recently I gave a presentation called New Things in New Ways that tried to explore some of the things that IWBs might let you do that were difficult/impossible without them. (There probably aren't really all that many thi...
on Tuesday
Chuck Schlegel replied to Jennifer W's discussion 'Help w/ IWB and Doc Camera'
Jennifer, the problem is likely in how the cables are interacting with your computer. You'll have to investigate how the devices play with your machine. For example, we have Elmos & Promethean boards, They each access teacher MacBooks in the same...
on Tuesday
Chuck Schlegel replied to Cheryl Thompson's discussion 'Literacy and IWB's'
Cheryl, I'm getting back to you as I hoped. I'm attaching some screen shot sof how I used the IWB & the Observe-Infer-Question strategy with just an image. image 1 has the original image as well as the dodlings & scribblings that accompanied disc...
on Tuesday
Chuck Schlegel replied to Cheryl Thompson's discussion 'Literacy and IWB's'
Cheryl, Welcome to your new IWB - you're a few weeks into the tool, and no doubt a tad overwhelmed by software tools, possibilities, etc. One of the early-on things I thought was cool and useful was putting a text on the screen, and then matching...
on Tuesday
Julie Lecoq replied to Julie Lecoq's discussion 'Use of IWB in high school'
Thanks Peter for your comment, I totally agree with you when you say it can help the students visualizing concepts, the impact of visual is certainly very strong (I have never been taught with an IWb unfortunately but I would have liked to ;-) I ...
on Monday
Peter Kent replied to Julie Lecoq's discussion 'Use of IWB in high school'
Hi Julie, While it may not help you for a couple of months I am in the final stages of publishing a book called 'Secondary Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards' through Macmillan Australia. The book assesses the potential of IWBs to improve peda...
on Monday
Monica O'Brien replied to Chris Betcher's discussion 'The Great IWB Debate'
I am passing on my developing knowledge to stafff members. I use IWB for a literacy class by scanning books, looking at grammar and spelling and visual literacy. We use the IWB to write poems based on syllable types or have a text passage and writ...
on Monday
Lindsey Groettum, Iain Cook-Bonney, Andrea McCarthy and 1 more joined The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
on Monday
Andrea McCarthy added a discussion
IWB usage in Physical Education
My interactive white board is being installed next week and not in the gym, but my storage/yoga/pilates/weightroom space. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who may already be using one in their Physical Education classroom at any level...
on Sunday
Bonnie Vance and Vicky Stone joined The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
November 15
Cheri Toledo, Julia Little and Sarah Ensor joined The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
November 14
Lee-Anne Oros replied to Heather Wolpert-Gawron's discussion 'Robert Marzano and Interactive Whiteboards'
My district has nearly 90 Promethean ActivBoards and plan to have one in every classroom. I have visited numerous classrooms at every level (K - high school)to see their use. During every single visit, the student engagement rate is incredibly hig...
November 13

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Vendor annoucements on this Ning

OK, I'll be the bad guy...

The intention for creating this site was not for it to be a place that IWB vendors, hardware and software manufacturers, etc, could use to make product announcements and direct sales pitches.  We've had a several of those sorts of product pitches in the last few days and I've tried to nicely point out to the people concerned that we would like to keep this site focused on its core purpose of allowing teachers to share ideas for better teaching with IWBs.… Continue

Created by Chris Betcher Mar 16, 2009 at 6:22am. Last updated by Chris Betcher Mar 15.

About the photos...

Ning is a terrific tool for this sort of thing.  It allows blogging, discussions, media sharing and so on.

One thing it also enables is photo sharing.  Originally, when I turned on the photo sharing, I was thinking it would be a good tool for showing each other some photos of how we use our IWBs in different ways.  I uploaded a bunch of my own photos from various IWB situations to get the ball rolling.

I've since noticed that people are adding a few non-IWB related images t… Continue

Created by Chris Betcher Mar 11, 2009 at 10:40pm. Last updated by Chris Betcher Mar 11.

Welcome to the Revolution!

This site has been created as a place for educators to have an ongoing conversation about the effective use of IWBs in the classroom. We aim to focus on the development of good IWB use, rooted in sound educational pedagogy.

As in any community, online or offline, the usual rules of respect and cooperation apply.  Play nice, be kind to each other and share your stuff.  Criticise without being critical. Disagree without being disagreeable. If we all do that, life will be good.
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Created by Chris Betcher Mar 10, 2009 at 6:06pm. Last updated by Chris Betcher Mar 11.

 
 

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