| joelzehring | Brainstorm: What are the costs and rewards of an interactive whiteboard in the classroom? |
Aug 07, 2008 -
03:14PM
| joelzehring | Brainstorm: What are the costs and rewards of an interactive whiteboard in the classroom? |
| joelzehring | says | inspired by this plurk page www.plurk.com/p/293pf |
| joelzehring | says | "costs" can me other things besides $ (time, energy, opportunities lost, etc.) |
| joelzehring | can MEAN other things |
| joelzehring | cost: learning curve for IWBs can be steep |
| joelzehring | reward: the cool factor |
| LParisi | says | like what...what would be the rewards? |
| kwhobbes | says | teachers in my school who are using them find them to be very useful. They not only can put notes on them but save the notes for later. The |
| kwhobbes | says | videos and other interactive information they find is blended right into their lessons and saved for review. Students can go back to earlier |
| kwhobbes | says | lessons if they miss something or need a review of some topic. It allows the teacher to integrate notes, video, games and other technologies |
| kwhobbes | says | plus, if you allow the students to use it, allows the students to bring in their own information for presentations and such. |
| pelgin | says | I have found that it keeps the students engaged, even those who usually don't pay attention in class |
| joelzehring | cost: several hundred or several thousand dollars |
| joelzehring | I'm noticing that many of the benefits of IWBs also exist for simple LCD projectors |
| megbg | says | agree...smart board is great for primary kids...up and down movability |
| kwhobbes | says | we use it in the middle years and high school. It seems to work well with them. |
| joelzehring | I can do a lot of "SMARTBoard" style stuff with an LCD hooked up to a computer. |
| LParisi | says | But kids love to come up and interact with the board and that can't be done with a projector. |
| joelzehring | hold on, LParisi, I need to release some air out of my grotesquely big head. Flattery will get you nowhere. |
| joelzehring | elementech can't I just give a student a mouse and have them manipulate the app? Is there really that much magic in the IWB pen? |
| pelgin | says | Sure you could, but for 2nd & 3rd graders, the magic is in interacting with the BOARD itself. |
| joelzehring | says | elementech several hundred (or even thousand) dollars worth of magic? |
| joelzehring | is | reducing the $ cost of an IWB might make the magic more justifiable. how does $100 dollars sound? |
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| ✿honeymic | says | $100 is good, but not as good as free! I won mine at NECC so I can use it guilt free! As long as I don't hog it from my students, I guess. |
| joelzehring | says | Nice! Our school tech aide won a mimio last year for our school. I guess I'm a sucker for a little DIY sometimes. |
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