By: Kim Pericles

Kim Pericles — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:45:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing your reflections, its interesting/reassuring to note that you’ve raised some issues that I have been grappling with in my own use of the interactive whiteboard in my classroom.
I wasn’t that comfortable with being the one out the front, stylus in hand , in control of the board and merely pointing to students to manipulate simple aspects of the flipchart – its not the way I teach or the most effective use of this technology.
I’ve tried to move on to small group use of the board, paired use in a mentoring situation – but more exciting is when the students take on the role of teacher and use the board as a tool to teach their peers.
Using the iwb as “presentation platform” as you say is where I’m heading next, i’m hoping this will allow the students the opportunity to use this technology in educationally relevant and creative ways to share their knowledge and skills.
Once again, thanks for your thoughts.

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By: Kim Pericles