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"My Interactive Classroom produces interactive whiteboard (IWB) learning games and classroom materials that engage students and make learning fun. The learning resources presented on this site raise the level of interactivity obtained from your interactive whiteboard. An IWB should be interactive for all. Often commercial and net based interactive materials are too teacher orientated - they are about the teacher clicking and 'interacting' with the board, while the students just "watch the interaction". My Interactive Classroom resources are whole class activities. Interaction is designed to be between the students and the board or, even more importantly, the activities facilitate learning interaction between the students themselves. My Interactive Classroom provides free download and very affordable learning games and classroom resource materials. All have been developed by experienced classroom teachers for you to enjoy with your own class. Please feel free to contact us with your comments, ideas and testimonies."

Scholastic's collection of SmartBoard lessons. These will work with other brands of IWB if you download the Interactive Viewer software http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Board+software/NotebookIV.htm "The viewer allows you to exchange Notebook files with any of your colleagues, even if they don't have access to the full version of Notebook software. You can also view your content created in Notebook software on any computer and present the material using any brand of interactive whiteboard. There is an open license for Notebook interactive viewer, which means the software can be installed on every computer in your school. The download is simple and can be done on individual computers, or the software can be installed on your school network."

Welcome to Topmarks Education's Interactive Whiteboard Resources section! To get started pick a subject, then an age group from the menu on the left. We've been working hard to feature the best educational resources which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The resources are organised by subject, age group and category to make them easy for you to find. We are constantly updating the web sites listed here to ensure that they are current.

Are you new to using an interactive whiteboard (IWB)? Have you used one for ages but want some other ideas? Are you using an IWB regularly but know you could use it better? Then you are invited to join The 2010 Interactive Whiteboard Challenge! The aim of the IWB Challenge: To improve the use of interactive whiteboards in classrooms everywhere by having students and teachers set challenges for each other by creating videos and screencasts of ways they use their IWB. The aim is also to connect educators and students to others who are working at improving their IWB practice.

"Literactive has hundreds a quality interactive activities to help children learn to read. The activities are extremely engaging and the graphic and sound quality are top notch! The site includes guided reading activities, interactive poetry, and interactive traditional tales. The site also has an ESL section that's simply outstanding." comment by James Hollis

"Interactive Sites for Classrooms A collection of StarBoard friendly websites that provide simulations, activities, games, lesson plans, and many other resources that can be utilized with your interactive StarBoard products. "

Interactive science & engineering (for 9-11 year olds) Flash activities about Light, sound, forces and motion, earth & beyond, electircity

Fellow Educators, I am the deputy director of eduction at the Taubman Museum of Art located in Roanoke, VA (see http://taubmanmuseum.org). I have designed, and we have recently had created, a Web-based Art Interactive Tool (WAIT) that allows users to interact with works in our permanent collection in a unique manner. Using a scaffolding interpretive model that I also designed (REED-LO), users, through WAIT, formulate an interpretation of a work of art in our collection. WAIT provides the user with guiding questions and allows users to record their thoughts online - in the end, they publish their overall interpretation of the work of art online. Teachers can create, for free, "classrooms" through WAIT that includes all of their students. They can then assign a specific work of art to their students. The students then access the work using a unique username and password. After they publish their interpretations, the teacher can approve each interpretation which then allows the students to access what their peers wrote about the work of art as well as the "expert" essay related to the work. In essence WAIT allows users to formulate a personal meaning of a work of art before reading what others have written about the work. WAIT can be found both through the Taubman Museum of Art's website, under the "Learn" section, or by going to www.waitarttool.com - it is free to use. I was hoping some of you would check out WAIT and discuss your thoughts about the tool through this forum. Be aware, however, there are some minor bugs that we are working through - but for the most part it is working fine.

An extraordinary moment happened in the making of this commercial for SMART. Students were collaborating, storyboarding, visualizing, and coordinating their strategies for creating this video project on the art room's interactive whiteboard. These 4th grade students are hoping to win a SMART board for their classroom since they understand how transformational this interactive tool can be for learning. Luckily for them, their class is looping to 5th grade with the same teacher, so they would be directly benefiting if their video is chosen. See our behind the scenes video at: animoto.com/play/9i4RJibVJrLt2O0Qs1ZKDw

The Effectiveness of using Interactive Whiteboards in Promoting Mathematical Thinking Project team: Sara Merrett, Julie-Ann Edwards; Keith Jones The aim of this project was to analyse the effectiveness of using an interactive whiteboard in promoting mathematical thinking in a secondary school. The project was part-supported by a DfES research scholarship.

Links to interactive math tools and activities for students and teachers. Johnnie's Math Page is the site to find fun math for kids, math games, and even a little math homework help. Interactive math activities from across the web have been organized by topic to make math learning enjoyable and interesting. For parents and teachers, you will find math lessons and math worksheets as well as links to other math teaching resources. For those who like a challenge, you will find free math games in the math puzzles section.

Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

Now teachers and students anywhere in the world, can connect and meet live in the Virtual Classroom for an online interactive class. The collaborative web conferencing environment enables you to communicate synchronously using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard. Join us now, to conduct your online live class and experience the next best alternative to classroom teaching.

"This is a free range of interactive teaching programs (ITPs) designed to support whole class teaching. The Flash Design and Development was carried out by Lightness Ltd. The games may be used with interactive whiteboards or on individual computers. The materials are based around phonemes and include prefix and suffix materials as well as more general tools such as magnetic letters and numbers."

Spurred on by an ambitious government program and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding since 2003, more than three quarters of British schools have installed IWBs and amassed plenty of experience in how-and how not-to use them.

38 Key Stage 2 Numeracy interactive resources for Primary Schools. Maths interactive resources and activities for your IWB.

Integration Ideas for using Interactive Whiteboards

Integration Ideas for using Interactive Whiteboards. Slides by Lauren Fee and Peggy Whyte from ITSCO (Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio

"Hot Stuff: Volcanoes" showcases the richness and customizability possible when producing content in a vendor-neutral formatóin this case via Flash. The two activities within this lesson are specifically designed to facilitate both teacher control and student interaction.

Mr B's List is a directory of the best *free* educational websites, (with emphasis on interactive sites) to use with your SMART Board or other interactive whiteboard, etc. Regardless of where your classroom technology comes from I hope you can benefit from quick and easy access to valuable websites for your subject and grade level.

find and download interactive resources for Science investigations. In fact, these resources were developed specifically for Interactive Whiteboards. The site organizes the resources into various categories including Physics, Biology, Technology, and Chemistry.