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Elizabeth Klein, Jessica Laurain
Edwina Lawson, Amy Palmer
Introduction
An interactive whiteboard is a phenomenal piece of hardware that resembles a standard whiteboard that when connected to a computer or projector becomes a touch sensitive version of the computer.
What is an IWB?
Interactive whiteboards are phenomenal tools that are replacing traditional whiteboards since their introduction to the educational world in 1991. An interactive whiteboard is an large interactive display that connects to a whiteboard or a projector. They provide an opportunity for direct interactions from a computer through educational software and websites. This technology allows both students and teachers to use the interactive pen and whiteboard surface just as they would a mouse and computer. Lessons can be created to support all areas of the curriculum, saved, and brought back to reinforce a skill or review before a test. These same lessons can be shared and modified by the teaching community to best fit the needs of individuals.
More to Know about an IWB
The interactive whiteboard brings technology to the class as a whole rather than a small group or individual. Tools, maps, documents, graphs, and presentations can be shared and made hands-on with digital ink to maximize student learning. Interactive whiteboards can also be connected to iPads through the use of an adaptor to bring educational applications into the classroom. With the right software the iPad can be used as a mini and mobile whiteboard in the hands of students. The capabilities of interactive technology are changing the traditional classroom for the better by opening the school walls to the digital world.
Types of Interactive Whiteboards
Smartboard ActivBoard
eBeam Mimio
Using Interactive
Whiteboards in
Mathematics
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Interactive Whiteboards in Mathematics
Using interactive whiteboards in mathematics raises the level of student engagement and motivation in the classroom. This increases student motivation and promotes enthusiasm for learning. Interactive whiteboards support many different learning styles to help teachers differentiate learning throughout math lessons. With the new Michigan graduation requirements that state all students must to pass algebra 2 in high school in order to graduate, it is imperative that students find success in math. This can be achieved by using interactive whiteboards in the classroom.
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Teachers can use IWB tools to:
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Teachers can use IWB tools to:
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Geometry Examples:
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Calculator Example:
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Graphing Examples:
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Group Work Generator
Group collaboration is critical throughout math lessons. Using SMART technology on a IWB, teachers can easily create groups to allow students to interact with their peers in the classroom.
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Math Vocabulary Sort
Students can display their understanding of their math vocabulary using SMART technology on an IWB.
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These are more activities to use with students during math lessons. Students will have fun while learning math!
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Using Interactive Dice
SMART technology allows the dice to roll on an IWB when you touch them!!
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It's Easy to Create Math
Units on an IWB!
I created an entire fraction unit using SMART technology on a SMARTboard. It easy and effective for your students! Here is a link to one of my lessons in my unit. Enjoy!
I found that 6th grade students are still struggling with conceptual understanding of fractions. After creating these lessons on my SMARTboard, I saw a rise in student achievement.
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Using Interactive Whiteboards in Writing
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Writing
Do you ever find your students stuck with a bad case of writer's block?
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Writing Instruction
Do you, as a teacher, feel inspired by your old writing lessons?
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Using IWB for Writing Instruction
Using an interactive whiteboard in writing can make an ordinary lesson seem more vivid and keep students more engaged than ever before. It can offer easy solutions to ease that writer's block or make a boring start more attention grabbing. Writing skills are essential for effective communication. The introduction of technology (such as smartphones, computers, and tablets) to younger and younger students as their main link to the outside world makes it necessary for classroom instruction to incorporate technology as often as possible. The IWB and it's tools offer a variety of possibilities for engaging, effective, and interactive writing instruction.
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Teachers can use IWB to...
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Interactive Graphic Organizers
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Peer Writing Samples
Editing and revision can be done together on a work, saved, and even copied as notes to give to the writer for their revisions.
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Vivid Story Starters
There are a variety of "engines" to provide topics or one liners.
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Vivid Story Starters
There are also an endless supply of images available to display on the IWB for students to use to spark their writing.
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Virtual Writer's Notebook
Teachers can keep a "virtual" Writer's Notebook from prompts, ideas, quotes, and other inspirational ideas that would be included in a student's notebook.
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Genre-Specific "Engines"
There are a variety of "engines" available to help with story starters and genre-specific elements.
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Daily Lessons and Units
An IWB can also be used to display "bellwork" assignments such as Daily Language Review, paragraph editing, and journal prompts. In my class, the students are welcomed in the morning with their instructions for the morning and some quick Daily Language Review to be done displayed at the front of the room on the IWB. I have also recently developed a Prezi to guide them through our Daily 5 literacy block which includes Word Work and Work on Writing. The visuals keep them engaged and on task.
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Using Interactive
Whiteboards in
Reading
Reaching Students
do you find it a challenge trying to reach students that don't want to try?
Reaching Further
do you find it a challenge trying to reach students that are scared to try?
Reading is...
Use an interactive whiteboard!
FUNdamental
Using Interactive Whiteboards in Reading
Using interactive whiteboards in reading allows students to experience a text that essentially comes to life! This raises the level of student engagement and encourages readers of all levels to take learning risks with motivating technology. Interactive whiteboards support all literary elements that connect to the curriculum as a whole. The newly structured Common Core expands the language arts standards in the area of reading to include reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading foundational skills in all grade levels. Reading standards can be implemented in the classroom in a new way. A way that makes reading fun, exciting, and easy using an interactive whiteboard.
Teachers can use IWB tools to:
Reading Foundations
Reading can be fun and engaging! Students can read funny sentences and revise basic features of print in a risk free environment…
Word work is easy with the interactive pen!
Fluency in Multiple Genres
Exploring different genres supports students with various learning styles.
Reading narratives, informational texts, poems, fables, and more can all be interactive.
Who? What? Where?
Students can work together to illustrate character avatars to go along with a book study or reading group.
Facts can be added to identify additional characters, settings, and main ideas.
Comparisons:
Fiction vs. Informational Texts
Texts can be compared and contrasted online! Addtional text features such as headings and glossaries can be highlighted.
Features
of Fiction
Features of
Non-Fiction
Both
Reading Vocabulary
There are multiple resources to use and define vocabulary in a memorable way.
Reading with Interactive Technology:
The iPad
The iPad can be connected to an interactive whiteboard through a VGA adaptor. There are hundreds of applications that support reading!
Boggle
i CardSort
Read Me Stories
iBooks
My Word Wall
mybookshelf
LetterBuddies
Word Wagon
A Lesson in Reading
Lesson plans can be found online to support reading on the interactive whiteboard!
Applications on the iPad make using the Common Core user friendly.
Using Interactive Whiteboards in Social Studies
ever have students bring electronic devices to school instead of supplies?
do your students become lackless with your lesson presentation?
Make Social Studies an.....
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Using IWB for Social Studi
Using interactive whiteboard in social studies sparks student interest with seamless integration of activities that foster critical thinking and promote cultural awareness. Students visually discover and actively participate in activities that target different learning styles. By connecting learning to the student natural affinity for technology IWB base learning increase student interest in social studies.(Cassutto,2000)
Teachers can use IWB tools
Geography Example
Students are able to use GPS device for treasure hunts within the school.
Mapping Tools
Students are able to define key vocabulary terms, analyze document and identify the president who each document is connected and match the location of their Presedential Library.
Google Earth
Creating virtual filed trips. Online creation while experiencing the world
Interactive Games
Connecting community and neighborhoods to Core Democratic Values.
Analyzing and Intrepreting
The free lunch program and the Federal Government.
Students are able to drawn from the visual and textual data presented to gain understanding of how federal funded programs are connected to the era of the Great Depression.
Connections are made to current legislation for widen scope of free lunch programs.
Using Mobile device as Clickers
Vclicker software enables students to use their mobile device as clickers to connect to social studies content and opinion
questioning coursework.
Using an iPad as an Interactive Whiteboard
Making an iPad into an Interactive Whiteboard
What you need:
iPad IWB apps
Whiteboard
Doceri
Doceri works by allowing the user to control their laptop computer on their iPad. Using the Doceri app you can access any file on your computer (pictures, documents, presentations) as well as annotate any of these files and/or your desktop background.
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On the right is a view of the iPad screen while using the app. The top right is what is on your computer screen.
In addition to your standard computer background you can replace it with others such as graph paper for math.
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Accessing the internet is easy with Doceri.
Annotate documents, images and presentations on your iPad and have it show up on screen.
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Another feature that Doceri has is called the timeline. This feature records all of your annotations so you can quickly and easily retrieve what you have already written.
Showme Interactive
The Showme Interactive Whiteboard app is another great app with a few other features than Doceri. Showme works as a normal whiteboard with different color markers, eraser, etc. that allows you to use it like you would a normal whiteboard.
Showme Interactive
One of the key features of using Showme is that it allows you to record your voice as you use the whiteboard. When you play it back, you will hear your voice as things are being drawn. So it is a way to recap lessons for absent students or students that need to see the lesson again.
Showme Interactive
This app can be used by a wide range of people like teachers, coaches, etc. Showme also saves your whiteboard presentations to view again later.
Splashtop Whiteboard
Splashtop is one of the best IWB apps however it is also one of the most expensive. There are many features that Splashtop has that aren't found in the other apps.
Splashtop Whiteboard
Both teachers and students can annotate over documents.
Splashtop Whiteboard
You can also annotate over
maps and pictures
Advantages of using an iPad as an IWB in the Classroom
Effective teachers interact with their students, not whiteboards.
Traditional blackboards and IWB confine the teacher to the front of the room. Using an iPad as an IWB allows the teacher to move freely about the room, allowing him/her to easily monitor students, ensuring that they are on task and meeting the lesson objectives.
Pedagogical Reasoning Supporting IWB's
There is a wide range of instructional strategies implemented by teachers to differentiate and support a variety of learning styles. Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock examined positive teaching practices in the book, Classroom Instruction that Works. The text highly supports Cooperative Learning where classroom experiences are enhanced when students are provided with opportunities to interact with each other in multiple ways. Additional strategies that allow students to form a deeper understanding of presented content can be found in Marzano’s Summarizing, Note Taking, and the Identification of Similarities and Differences. Further research by Marzano in the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development has examined benefits of interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Students who are a part of effective lessons using interactive technology show increased achievement and percentile point gains. Interactive technology allows students to be reached through active, verbal, visual and global communication while building connections with the digital world.
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Resources
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