Tell your students to get their cell phones out and turn them ON! With this program (free for audiences of 30 or less) you can get your students to interact with the content being presented, and they can do so anonymously. Teachers can do votes, poll the class on whatever is suitable for that lesson, get feedback on how well students are understanding material, and students can also post comments. A science teacher at my school uses it often and loves it! (And so do her students!) Here is what the Poll Everywhere website has to say: "Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging."

ReadWriteThink is a respected organization dedicated to improving student literacy. This site has a variety of resources for both in and out-of-school use that focus on helping students organize their thoughts and learn about language.

This PDF document was put together by SMART Technologies, which is important to note, as there might be some conflict of interest in reporting factual research versus making money on their interactive white boards. In any case, after reading through it, it seems to me that a lot of the information is plausible. Specific topics of interest include how the IWB increases student engagement and motivation, as well as how it can be sued to adapt to various learning styles and specials needs.

Here is another site with IWB activities. This is aimed at elementary level.

This site provides a great number of fun learning activities for use on the IWB. What is great about this site is that it covers all grade levels and a variety of topics/subject areas, including language arts, math/science, social studies, and games.

This PDF gives an introduction to IWBs. If you are new to using an IWB, this is a nice guide that provides information about what they are, how to use them, and most importantly, the benefits of using one in the classroom. Specifically, this PDF provides a concise list of these benefits as evidenced through research. This reading also provides information on other technologies that can be integrated with the IWB, such as webcams and tablets.