Interactive Whiteboards Provide New Dimensions in Classroom Technology By Thomas Radcliff

Interactive Whiteboards allows the teachers to display just about anything that can be shown on a computer screen. Teachers find that new dimensions in classroom learning are opened up, and here is a look at some of the ways that the whiteboards can be used to make classroom learning more effective.

One way that teachers can use this new classroom technology is to incorporate interactive sites and resources from the web in everyday classroom lessons. Interactive boards make including multimedia in classroom lessons easy, whether you have pre-selected the materials or you are using resources on the fly in the classroom from web sources like YouTube, Google Video, or TeacherTube.

Multimedia applications can also be used with interactive boards. If you are teaching geography in class, you can interact and visit different environments with free tools such as Google Earth. There are many other free resources available on the web as well, for science classes, music class, mathematics class, or classes on other subjects.

You'll find that there are many games and simulations that can be found on websites as well. To help kids in class put their new knowledge to work, finding interactive games to use on the whiteboards can help kids apply what they learn to fun games, helping them to more effectively retain the new information.

Another option to consider as you begin to implement this new classroom technology into your life and the lives of your students is to use classroom response systems with the interactive board technology. There are classroom response systems that can be purchased to use along with these whiteboards, which allows students to instantly provide feedback on the materials being taught to the teacher. Students can work together on problems, vote on answers and more. This really helps kids to get involved in class with the lessons, which leads to better comprehension and understanding.

While using the whiteboards, teachers can also keep a collection of all their digital resources, which they can refer to when they teach. Video clips, sound clips, and images can all be created and then stored so they can be used again and again in class. Some options allow teachers to create questions for kids to answer, and then you are able to reveal the answers to those questions as you go through the lesson.