Interactive Whiteboards with Zita MacCormick
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Zita's excellent session on 'Interactive Resources' opened my eyes to the possibilities of technology within the classroom to encourage interaction, collaboration and creativity. The interactive whiteboards obviously appeal to visual learners but through sorting activities and using sound clips, audio and kinaesthetic learners should also be engaged.
Of course there are always 'glitches' with technology and SMART 11 didn't work perfectly in the session. However, with practice and the appropriate preparation I believe using Whiteboards in class will benefit the children's learning. I'd like to gain more experience using them and begin to incorporate Whiteboard activities into the Phonics sessions I am currently team-teaching in a local school.
Of course there are always 'glitches' with technology and SMART 11 didn't work perfectly in the session. However, with practice and the appropriate preparation I believe using Whiteboards in class will benefit the children's learning. I'd like to gain more experience using them and begin to incorporate Whiteboard activities into the Phonics sessions I am currently team-teaching in a local school.
Interactive Whiteboards - GPP
I used the interactive Whiteboard regularly during GPP to enhance the children's learning experience. To recap a set of instructions for making a 'Monster Cake' I used pictures of myself going through the various stages to remind the children what we did in the previous lesson and elicit the appropriate vocabulary. The whiteboard allowed me to use visuals to engage the children and challenge them to remember the various steps. I wrote key words next to the pictures to help the children focus on spelling strategies. I used the whiteboard as a visual prompt in this way regularly during GPP to great success. I shall continue to use SMART during my final placement to present information to children visually using photographs and adding writing as and when it is useful.
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