| This allows the teachers to display just about anything | | | | interactive games to use on the whiteboards can help |
| that can be shown on a computer screen. Teachers | | | | kids apply what they learn to fun games, helping them |
| find that new dimensions in classroom learning are | | | | to more effectively retain the new information. |
| opened up, and here is a look at some of the ways | | | | Another option to consider as you begin to implement |
| that the whiteboards can be used to make classroom | | | | this new classroom technology into your life and the |
| learning more effective. | | | | lives of your students is to use classroom response |
| One way that teachers can use this new classroom | | | | systems with the interactive board technology. There |
| technology is to incorporate interactive sites and | | | | are classroom response systems that can be |
| resources from the web in everyday classroom | | | | purchased to use along with these whiteboards, which |
| lessons. Interactive boards make including multimedia in | | | | allows students to instantly provide feedback on the |
| classroom lessons easy, whether you have | | | | materials being taught to the teacher. Students can |
| pre-selected the materials or you are using resources | | | | work together on problems, vote on answers and |
| on the fly in the classroom from web sources like | | | | more. This really helps kids to get involved in class with |
| YouTube, Google Video, or TeacherTube. | | | | the lessons, which leads to better comprehension and |
| Multimedia applications can also be used with | | | | understanding. |
| interactive boards. If you are teaching geography in | | | | While using the whiteboards, teachers can also keep a |
| class, you can interact and visit different environments | | | | collection of all their digital resources, which they can |
| with free tools such as Google Earth. There are many | | | | refer to when they teach. Video clips, sound clips, and |
| other free resources available on the web as well, for | | | | images can all be created and then stored so they |
| science classes, music class, mathematics class, or | | | | can be used again and again in class. Some options |
| classes on other subjects. | | | | allow teachers to create questions for kids to answer, |
| You'll find that there are many games and simulations | | | | and then you are able to reveal the answers to those |
| that can be found on websites as well. To help kids in | | | | questions as you go through the lesson. |
| class put their new knowledge to work, finding | | | | |