[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:3162] Re: Using Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom?

From: Jeff Carter (jcarter@worlded.org)
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Marian,

Not an answer to your specific question, but you (or anyone) who is 
interested in the use of digital whiteboards might want to look at an 
article that was recently cited on the venerable EDTECH list from the 
February 2004 issue of The Reading Teacher, called "The digital 
whiteboard: A tool in early literacy instruction," by Pamela A. Solvie.

The article is not available via the Reading Teacher site but is 
available online at:

<http://www.smarterkids.org/research/paper13.asp>

Some other articles on the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards in 
the K-12 classroom can also be found here.

Jeff

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On Feb 18, 2004, at 6:36 PM, mthacher@otan.us wrote:

> Is anyone using an interactive whiteboard with students? A program in
> California has recently put a couple in ESL classrooms, and the 
> teachers
> are wondering if others have used them and found good activities or 
> ideas.
>
> I know they are good for demonstrating computer processes, like how to
> make an address label. They are good for demonstrating something 
> quickly
> on the keyboard, like how to make a capital letter, or where the 
> question
> mark is.
>
> They are good for kinesthetic learners because you can go up and 
> actually
> do the computer action on the whiteboard. Students can also scramble 
> and
> unscramble sentences by dragging the words around on the board.
>
> Any other ideas? Do you use the page-saving function? Do you print out
> pages of what's written on the board for yourself or your students? Do 
> you
> have ideas for structured learning activities? Have you used the 
> function
> that changes handwriting into text, and did it work? I would like to
> collect some ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Marian Thacher, OTAN
> Sacramento, CA
> mthacher@otan.us
>
> <Header>



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