Apparently today we have new face in our class…Ms Fenny; young, beautiful and jovial lady with a lot of attraction (positive attraction indeed!!)
She wants to enrich our knowledge about Interactive White Board (IWB) aka Smart Board.
Personally, I don’t have any schemata or previous knowledge about Smart Board or IWB before this course. I am exposed to conventional method chalk and blackboard in primary years and whiteboard in my secondary and afterwards. Even after few lesson in this course, I HAD SEEN the magic and miracle of smart board but never had the chance to use it (or even touch it *sigh*)
Why bother??
Obviously it looks tempting enough to be touched and great features to be explore.
Just wonder…Is the smart board screen made from the same composition of LCD??
Basically, Ms. Fenny LESSON is about:
- How to integrate IWB into the teaching and learning activity
- How to use the IWB
- What are the basic features in IWB
- Introduction to SMART notebook software
Features of IWB introduced in Today’s class
click and drag the picture by using a finger, how to clone a text and picture????
We can write on IWB using pen (various colour) and even better we can do correction of our hand written when simply rub it out with eraser. These seem like typical function of whiteboard but integrated in the IWB features. This is the feature I like the most since we can save our “handwriting” in the computer. Good news for lecturer since they can save it as class notes and upload it for his/her students.
I notice IWB is a combination of powerful interactive software just to name few of it. For example PowerPoint (for presentation) and window media player (for interactive mode)
Common features available like “clone” substitute for “copy” in our daily dictionary.
Task: Work in groups and design an activity based on a selected topic
Duration: Preparation- 45minutes presentation- 5 minutes
Preparation stage
Our group, The Prestige come up with the topic preposition. It is a tough job to design an activity with IWB since all of us didn’t familiar with smart board software (reminds me my first experience to use chopstick) Unfamiliar software and now we need to create a simple activity (Urgh…first timer with limited time of exposure)
Luckily, we have guidance for the facilitators that really been helpful in exposing us to this software.
Presentation Stage
Surprisingly, I am glad to see a lot of tremendous effects and creativity from my fellow course mate. I learned a lot just to observe them. Not bad for a 45 minutes preparation.
I like Lee’s idea about playing with a doll (remember to “lock” the doll or else they will left naked as what happen with Lee’s incident)
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