161 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools.
15 free to use fun games for children aged 4 - 11.
100 web links to other free interactive, image and software resources.
"The Best of the Whiteboard Blog" contains the very best articles from over three years of the blog collated and put together into one handy document. It is chock full of ideas and useful links to help you to make the best use of your interactive whiteboard.
This book contains the best articles from over three years of the whiteboard blog and is packed with ideas to make the most of your interactive whiteboard in the classroom.
Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences. The games are fully functional on your interactive white board
Marzano Group indicates IWBs have a positive impact on student learning. Preliminary report published in fall of 2009 and this is the final report. Report indicates an additional 3 months of learning IF...
effective integration of interactive tools accompanied by PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT!!!
The experience I have found is that Unversity lecturers, preservice students and schools (the majority, not the minority) are struggling to understand how to use technologies such as whiteboards in an effective manner. The typical response for change in institutions is to push the technology not the pedagogy.
Also, not sure of the percentage of casual teachers, high I believe, is that they go from school to school, where some have smartboards, some promethean and other various models.
Where does the education for technology start? In the schools, the universities, the student? or the manufacture who puts out promotional material on the web, hoping this will transfuse into the teachers time poor memory of lesson plans.