Sunday 2 December 2012

Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)


  • Easy to communicate
  • Take time to explore 
  • Expensive
  • Turn computer into an powerful tool for teaching, collaborating and presenting
  • Touch screen
  • Interactive 
  • Motivate students
  • Quick and easy access to information 
  • Safe search for searching the internet 
  • Video conferencing



Effectiveness of IWB in schools:
  1. Making notes in digital link
  2. saving notes for later review by using e-mail, the web or print
  3. Viewing websites
  4. Demonstrating
Research on Overall Use and Effectiveness
  1. Increase pupil engagement
  2. Motivation 
  3. Enjoyment
  4. Potentially leading to improvements in individual student learning ability
  5. Impact whole-class 
  6. Extend the range of style of teaching
  7. Explore new ways of creative teaching.
Disadvantages of IWB in schools:
  1. Ineffective and incorrect resources
  2. Searched internet content not suitable for students vision
  3. Used as just a projector
  4. Cost of downloading website
  5. Need to either type into the browser bar using the keyboard connection/ use the on-screen keyboard which is small and hard to use if not calibrated right.

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