Interactive+Whiteboards

Secondly, the Following site :http://yvilt.wikispaces.com/IWB-Resources has a very comprehensive coverage of this topic. Ultimately I would hope to give this page more of an Irish related character than that site, but it is still early days. For the moment, a good site with an Irish perspective is: [] This is from the Drumcondra Educaion Centre. Back ground. I'm trying to locate resources, and update myself on current thinking as to the value of these devices. With new technology, I ocasionaly find myself to be a bit of a Luddite, and any comments I make here should be read with that authors bias in mind. http://edcompassblog.smarttech.com/archives/9351 A blog entry on getting started with a smart board.
 * Firstly Any opinions expresed here are my own and do not represent any organization I work for.**
 * Resources**
 * Teaching Ideas**

http://blnds.co/1cnirnj A blendspace (these are fun) built around the theme of the IWB as a window to resources on the web [] A google doc with series of slides of IWB teaching ideas. [] Some ideas on alternative online resources. [] An online community for discussing smart brand interactive white boards media type="custom" key="21646560" Stephen Downs on starting a MOOC [|Interactive White Board Daily News]
 * A Daily newspaper of Ideas**

A short piece on education excerpted from Sibyll Marshall [] A senior microsoft education type states that it should be students first, not technology first. [] Whiteboards for people with disabilities including sight loss and dyslexia.
 * Educational research**

[] [] Wall Higgins and Smith on how the visual aspects of the IWB help their thinking. [] A 150 page or so report showing some limited advantages is some areas. [|A 2005 Liturature review] From the Journal of computer assisted learning. [|A 2007 study] examining their imapct in teaching mathematics [] A 2008 Discusion of the introduction of IWB technology in South Africa. [] A thoughtful early piece giving some consideration to aproriate educational models. [] Marzano at his best. This is a short note on IWB use, and quotes percentile gain in performance as a result. I always read Marzano with a little caution, and would sugest that you read some of his other publications to get a feel for his research methodology. [] A book chapter from Pete Sharma and Barney Barret. A quite readable introduction to moving into White board use in langage teaching. [] Pedagogy and Activity theory. Examining the teaching models in maths education engendered by IWB use. [] A case study providing evidence of IWB's leading to a more interactive and engaged classroom. [] Another activity theory paper. [] The euScribe project reoprt. This is good reading for background info. The folowing website has a number of tools or apps which you can use in your teaching practice, these include a timer which can do timed countdowns, a word magnet app where you can drag a collection of words into place, and more there is an introductory video here [|Video on triptico] and the website is [|here] This tip was provided by Phil Ackroyd of City Colledge, Norwich. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ This is a free screen capture tool for PC and MAC computers. Smart boards have a screen recording tool which has this functionality, but users of other boards might want to use this to capture and demonstrate online activity for their students. [|http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0] The company Silo for Smart Whiteboards [] The company Silo for Promethean Whiteboards [|Spongelab] A fairly large collection of interactive resources which should work with any board. registration required Inspirational and out of the box sites. [] A note about what digital citizenship implies with a side swipe at IWB's [] Tom Barrett on turning the IWB off
 * Tools**
 * Lesson repositories**

[] From Flowing data, this shows UK naval ship locations as an animation through the first world war. http://edudemic.com/2012/03/25-ted-talks-perfect-for-classrooms/ A list of TED talks which could work in the classroom
 * Some Sites with interesting Visuals**

http://www.ncte.ie/courses/PrimarySpecific/NCTEUsingtheInteractiveWhiteboardtoSupportLiteracyonline/Name,22194,en.html
 * A course from the NCTE**