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"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.

Here is a list of resources to use with your class. This is a list of great interactive websites for all curriculum areas.

A free opensource 3D virtual world" designed to be used with interactive whiteboards. Did you hear that? It's FREE and OPENSOURCE!!!

This is a very full set of interactive animations that are worth a look! Life, physical, and Earth sciences all included. $40/year for individual account

"The battle for supremacy in the K-12 whiteboard market is heating up. Companies are scrambling for new sources of revenue, making strategic moves to reinvent their products in the age of tablet computing, and sizing up their competitors to see what they can do to differentiate themselves from the pack. Who ultimately ends up on top has huge implications for educational technology leaders, who must determine which company is the best fit for their needs, and at a cost their districts can afford in still-difficult budget times. Complicating those decisions are changes in the technological landscape that are raising questions about the long-term educational relevance of interactive whiteboards. Do classrooms really need them in the age of iPads?"

"The free, open-source interactive digital teaching software The Open-Sankoré program is free. It serves teachers and students. It makes it possible to teach and learn in a different way"

The ANSN Interactive Whiteboard Hubs are for both primary and secondary teachers and focus on exploring and developing new pedagogies that support meaningful technology integration through an action learning model.

Exploring pedagogy with interactive whiteboards: A case study of six schools 2005-2006

The Centre for Learning Innovation and RM Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd conducted an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) trial with Easiteach software in five schools in South Western Sydney Region. The trial provides a valuable case study for investigating the impact of these technologies on teaching and learning. Read the project report [pdf 891 kB].

Dr. Mary Ann Bell, Assistant Professor of Library Science at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas addresses the question: "Why do I like interactive whiteboards so much?"

This free open-source software "allows you to use the Wii Remote (Wiimote) to turn any surface into a Low-Cost Interactive Whiteboard."

A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.

"Easily record interactive lessons on your iPad and share them instantly online - reach more students, more easily."

An interactive whiteboard - What is it? RESOURCES - Great lniks to possible resources

An interactive whiteboard resource to show an easily manipulated map of the world.

interactive tools for numeracy, such as place value cards

a wiki full of resources for using IWBs