How Interactive Whiteboards Help in Interactive Education
Interactive Whiteboard makes 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.
Students can access class or lecture notes that have been saved and stored on the whiteboard in the event that they have missed a presentation. Once fully integrated into a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Interactive Whiteboards offer huge potential for sharing valuable resources. If teachers should ever want to test the comprehension of students they can do so by interactive testing on the whiteboard. In this way they work to promote interactivity that supports active learning and not just passive intake of information.
In terms of catering to all the needs of students Interactive Whiteboards are very useful for visually impaired learners, for instance teachers can display work on the board with graphics as opposed to text to teach and test students.
How Interactive Whiteboards Help in Interactive Education