30/10/12 - The Interactive Whiteboard

So this week we started class tutorials on using the Interactive Whiteboard. My class was split in to different groups each having to create a resource for the Interactive Whiteboards. The groups were split up as follows:

Group 1 ­ Magic Tunnel

Group 2 ­ Magnifier Glass

Group 3 ­ Checker Tool

Group 4 ­ Click to Reveal

Group 5 ­ Erase to Reveal

Group 6 ­ Random Generator

Group 7 ­ Pull Tabs

Group 8 ­ Balloon Pop Tool

Me and a 2 of my classmates were group 3, therefore we were required to create the Checker Tool. What this required was for us to create a calculation and then have a tool which checked to see what the correct answer was. As demonstrated below. We did the simple calculation of 10 x 10 with the following answers a) 100 b) 1000 c) 200. As you can see the bellow tool which has "Drag Text Here" written on it. We had to first select the arrows and put the correct answer, written as a) 100 in to the tool and save. So when you drag an answer in to the tool, you will either get a green tick for a correct answer or a red cross for an incorrect answer.

We then had to present how we created this resource to the rest of the groups and they in turn had to present theirs to us. This was a fairly enjoyable task. Learning these skills to bring in to the classroom is very beneficial as they make the lesson more enjoyable and interactive with the children.