There’s no doubt that interactive whiteboards are an exciting new technology as classrooms move progressively into a digital learning environment. It’s all brilliant stuff: a projector is used to display your computer’s desktop onto a whiteboard, and users control the computer using a pen or their finger.
It certainly seems more than flash-in-the-pan technology. While talk in the past was about IWBs appearing in exclusive British and US classrooms, these days they’re appearing everywhere (in my local state primary school, 50% of the classrooms have an IWB and are looking to get more).
So it’s not just coming. In most cases it’s already here and ready to be utilised.
For teachers, it’s a tool that has great potential for contributing to innovative teaching and enhancing the classroom experience by providing media-rich resources that mix sound pedagogy with cool graphics.
Which is where we at Liquid come in.
Currently we have an IWB in the Liquid offices which we use to test the learning objects we’re making for Disney ELL. Recently we’ve also created the Spectacular Spelling Games series of CD-Roms for Blake Education, which have been specifically designed with IWBs in mind.
In short, we want to do more.
So bring it on.
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