Interactive White Boards
What is an interactive White Board? An interactive whiteboard is a piece of hardware that looks much like a standard whiteboard but it conne...
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What is an interactive White Board?
An interactive whiteboard is a piece of hardware that looks much like a standard whiteboard but it connects to a computer and a projector in the classroom to make a very powerful tool. When connected, the interactive whiteboard becomes a giant, touch-sensitive version of the computer screen.
Instead of using the mouse, you can control your computer through the interactive whiteboard screen just by touching it with a special pen (or, on some types of boards, with your finger). Anything that can be accessed from your computer can be accessed and displayed on the interactive whiteboards, such as:
• Word documents,
• PowerPoint presentations,
• photographs,
• websites or online materials.
Using special software included with the interactive whiteboard, you can also interact with images and text projected on the board: rearranging them, changing their size, colour, etc. This offers a much more interactive experience than using a standard whiteboard or using a data projector alone.
Interactive Whiteboards in Education
Interactive whiteboards are a powerful tool in the classroom adding interactivity and collaboration, allowing the integration of media content into the lecture and supporting collaborative learning. Used innovatively they create a wide range of learning opportunities.
Interactive whiteboards are commonplace in a high percentage of schools in the UK, but universities have been slower to adopt this technology. They were originally developed for use in business to demonstrate concepts and record meetings. However, they are an extremely flexible tool which can be used with both the youngest primary school children and university graduates.
An interactive whiteboard can be a cost saver as this technology demonstrates how one computer can provide learning stimuli for a whole classroom. This is more cost effective than equipping an entire IT room, or every student with a laptop.
Examples of the features available when using an interactive whiteboard:
• Add annotations and highlight text.
• Add notes and drawings and then save them to be printed out and shared, or added to a virtual learning environment.
• Show pictures and educational videos to the whole lecture theatre. You can label parts or highlight elements of an image.
• Demonstrate the content available on a website in a teacher-directed activity
The teacher can call upon the students to interact with the whiteboard themselves. The lecturer can sit at the computer, with the student at the whiteboard, and the class offering suggestions and contributing ideas.
Interactive whiteboards promote group discussion and participation. They are an effective tool for brainstorming as notes made on the screen can be turned into text, and saved to be shared and distributed later. They are an ideal tool for small group work and collaborative learning, as students can huddle around the board developing ideas, and then save the work for sharing over a network or by email.
Interactive Whiteboards in business
Interactive whiteboards have been popular in education for a while, but these days businesses are turning to interactive technology as well. The standard conference room computer and monitor/projector setup is being challenged by the value proposition of these powerful devices.
So how do Interactive technologies work for your organisation, and what business applications would justify investing in one?
Interactive whiteboards allow users to fluidly navigate content and notate on top of it, by hand or with special pens, displaying the results with digital ink. Different manufacturer models include advanced options for pen colour, thickness, and multi-user modes.
Showing content through a medium like this can make presentations and their presenters come alive in a way that sitting with a mouse and keyboard just can’t. The latest interactive technologies have added all kinds of useful business tools, including the ability to fluidly enlarge and shrink items (with pen or finger gestures), highlight, and email or print hard copies on the fly.
Interactive technologies for business come in more than one variety. One is thinner and works with a projector that displays the results of the users actions back onto the same interactive surface. The non-projector variety looks like a flat screen TV from the outside, only thicker. The added depth houses the processing power needed for the display and the interactive touch screen features.
For example Sharp’s latest line includes a library of usable backgrounds including calendars, to-do lists, meeting logs, graph paper, and action plans. With a network-connected scanner paper documents can be scanned directly onto the display automatically. Multiple locations can work on the same document at once, connective collaborative minds from anywhere in the world in real time.
Newer interactive whiteboard models come with the same display features as leading flat screen televisions, with high def back-lit LED displays. So with some extra investment money, your conference room can have everything you’re used to (Windows UI, video conferencing, etc.), and can turn into a collaborative think tank for floor plans, x-rays, power points, and much more.
Instead of using the mouse, you can control your computer through the interactive whiteboard screen just by touching it with a special pen (or, on some types of boards, with your finger). Anything that can be accessed from your computer can be accessed and displayed on the interactive whiteboards, such as:
• Word documents,
• PowerPoint presentations,
• photographs,
• websites or online materials.
Using special software included with the interactive whiteboard, you can also interact with images and text projected on the board: rearranging them, changing their size, colour, etc. This offers a much more interactive experience than using a standard whiteboard or using a data projector alone.
Interactive Whiteboards in Education
Interactive whiteboards are commonplace in a high percentage of schools in the UK, but universities have been slower to adopt this technology. They were originally developed for use in business to demonstrate concepts and record meetings. However, they are an extremely flexible tool which can be used with both the youngest primary school children and university graduates.
An interactive whiteboard can be a cost saver as this technology demonstrates how one computer can provide learning stimuli for a whole classroom. This is more cost effective than equipping an entire IT room, or every student with a laptop.
Examples of the features available when using an interactive whiteboard:
• Add annotations and highlight text.
• Add notes and drawings and then save them to be printed out and shared, or added to a virtual learning environment.
• Show pictures and educational videos to the whole lecture theatre. You can label parts or highlight elements of an image.
• Demonstrate the content available on a website in a teacher-directed activity
The teacher can call upon the students to interact with the whiteboard themselves. The lecturer can sit at the computer, with the student at the whiteboard, and the class offering suggestions and contributing ideas.
Interactive whiteboards promote group discussion and participation. They are an effective tool for brainstorming as notes made on the screen can be turned into text, and saved to be shared and distributed later. They are an ideal tool for small group work and collaborative learning, as students can huddle around the board developing ideas, and then save the work for sharing over a network or by email.
Interactive Whiteboards in business
So how do Interactive technologies work for your organisation, and what business applications would justify investing in one?
Interactive whiteboards allow users to fluidly navigate content and notate on top of it, by hand or with special pens, displaying the results with digital ink. Different manufacturer models include advanced options for pen colour, thickness, and multi-user modes.
Showing content through a medium like this can make presentations and their presenters come alive in a way that sitting with a mouse and keyboard just can’t. The latest interactive technologies have added all kinds of useful business tools, including the ability to fluidly enlarge and shrink items (with pen or finger gestures), highlight, and email or print hard copies on the fly.
Interactive technologies for business come in more than one variety. One is thinner and works with a projector that displays the results of the users actions back onto the same interactive surface. The non-projector variety looks like a flat screen TV from the outside, only thicker. The added depth houses the processing power needed for the display and the interactive touch screen features.
Newer interactive whiteboard models come with the same display features as leading flat screen televisions, with high def back-lit LED displays. So with some extra investment money, your conference room can have everything you’re used to (Windows UI, video conferencing, etc.), and can turn into a collaborative think tank for floor plans, x-rays, power points, and much more.
