An Useful Tool-interactive Whiteboard for Educators

Presentation tools are increasing in popularity for educators who want to share ideas and information with large or small groups of students. Interactive applications are in demand for educators who want to involve their students in learning with technology. The electronic interactive whiteboard is a device that combines both of these attributes, offering shared learning experiences for large or small groups, as well as for distance learning.

What is a Interactive whiteboard?

Interactive whiteboard refers to electronic whiteboards which provide the facility to interact; you can touch the board to control it instead of using keyboard or mouse. It is an interactive whiteboard that is connected to a computer and a multimedia projector.Once the computer image is projected on the board you can move your finger across the whiteboard, displaying the computer image, the mouse cursor follows. You simply tap the screen twice with your finger to perform the normal double-click as you would do with your mouse.

You can control most of the computer actions from the front of the class or meeting room by just interacting on surface of the board. You can also write or draw on the whiteboard with your finger or the pens provided and save the image to the computer. These images, which are your notes from the meeting or training session, can then be printed or emailed. The software included with some interactive whiteboards also has built in Optical Character Recognition, which means you can write on the screen and the computer will recognize your hand writing and turn it into computer text.

The Interactive Whiteboard is the pen-driven interactive whiteboard. Its hard surface makes it just about unbreakable and it will take multiple users. This makes it perfect for training, group work and educational games. The DuoBoard also comes with a low-reflection screen for sensitive eyes, dual-hand operation and an electronic pen.

Why every teacher need an Interactive Whiteboard

1. Interactive whiteboards give the teacher instant access to a vast array of electronic resources.  This makes learning much more exciting and breathes new life into old fashioned chalk-and-talk.








2. It enables seamless links to be made between the interactive whiteboard technology and the subject material.








3. The Interactive whiteboard is controlled by the teacher from the front of the classroom using an easy-to-use electronic pen.  Teachers are rethinking their approach to teaching and having fun doing so.








4. Using electronic ink, the teacher can write over any image shown on the interactive whiteboard screen.  These annotations can then be captured on an electronic flipchart.  The flexibility and the scope for imaginative lesson planning are huge.








5. At the end of the lesson, flipchart pages can automatically be saved and can be printed, emailed or even pasted onto a website.  This opens up possibilities for pupils to access lesson materials out of the lesson itself and for teachers to share lesson resources.








6. The flipchart files can be updated or merged with other Windows applications, which enables the teachers to save the best lessons and improve on them in their own time.

Summary

The study showed statistically significant improvement in student attitudes towards both using computers in instruction and towards writing instruction. I also conducted a survey of teachers who are whiteboard users, querying them about their opinions regarding board use. The survey results indicated a high degree of satisfaction from educational leaders ranging from early elementary to academic settings.