Using the Interactive Whiteboard

There are many advantages to using interactive whiteboards. The following are probably the main ones.

• They provide electronically all the familiar features of a traditional classroom blackboard or ordinary whiteboard.

• They replace the scenario of a large group crowding around a single computer. The interactive whiteboard allows a large group to sit and participate comfortably in a presentation.

• You can enhance any presentation or lesson by easily integrating video, animation, graphics, text and audio with the spoken presentation.

• You can display material from a number sources such as CD-ROMs, websites, DVDs, VHS tapes and television. There are other methods of presentation of information on the horizon offering further flexibility.

• You can usually edit information directly during lessons and save any changes or additions to the computer.

• Notes, diagrams and entire lessons or presentations can be saved, archived and added to the intranet or similar centralised resource. This means that presentation or class'work in progress' can be saved ready for the next period.

• Student benefits from the interaction with the knowledge and task, both personally and socially.

• Creates a collaborative layout and an environment of engagement so that there is naturally more dialogue between tutor and students, peer-to-peer and within groups.

• Some say that students are better behaved and more motivated.

• Effective method of presenting ideas, whether to students or colleagues, or to prospects.

• Useful way of getting feedback on ideas from others. There are many ways of achieiving this. If you want, you could kit the audience with keypads from the XPress Audience Response System and link them up with the computer in the interactive whiteboard setup and get responses in real time on the computer screen. The responses could be to test questions, contests, exams, or voting.   

              Link to "Training Tutorials for Promethean and Smart Boards"   

 
                 
source: Tom Hopper (2007). Interactive Whiteboard Demonstartion. Retrieved from  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjdNPMZJbLs

Reference:
Tekgia (2012). The Advantages of  an Interactive Whiteboard. Retrieved from http://www.tekgia.com/product_info.php/products_id/293