This is the handout for Interactive Whiteboards: Collaborative and Practical Applications for Learnersand Teachers

1. Interactive Whiteboards: Collaborative and Practical Applications for Learners
and Teachers
Rachel Drummond Sardell, University of Oregon | TESOL 2010
(This handout is available for download at http://www.uoregon.edu/~rachelds/tesol2010)
Demonstration outline
I. Introductory questions
a. What are interactive whiteboards?
b. Why should you consider teaching with them?
II. How-to
a. Using an interactive whiteboard
b. Manipulating digital text
c. How to find and save pictures used as visual references (using SMART
Notebook software, version 10).
d. How to save digital notes / drawings / scribbles of explained concepts
(using SMART Notebook software, version 10).
III. Video classroom examples: how to adapt known, non-technical pedagogical
techniques for use with interactive whiteboards.
a. Cloze grammar exercise
b. Peer-editing writing
c. Critical thinking
IV. Collaborative and practical applications
a. Participants can have a hands-on experience with a SMART Airliner
Tablet and collaborate and brainstorm ideas for additional applications of
using interactive whiteboards for learners of varying proficiencies and
backgrounds.
Additional teaching and reading resources
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency. (2004). Getting the most
from your interactive whiteboard: a guide for secondary schools. Retrieved
November 6th, 2008, from
http://foi.becta.org.uk/content_files/corporate/resources/foi/archived_publications
/getting_most_whiteboard_secondary.pdf
Green, E. (2010, March 2). Building a better teacher. New York Times. Retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-
t.html?em=&pagewanted=all
Hollis, J. (n.d.). The Wow factor and the smart board interactive whiteboard: "do you got
wow?". Retrieved from
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_jim_hollis/wow_factor_and_smart_b
oard_interactive_whiteboard_do_you_got_wow

2. Interactive vocabulary review games. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/interactive-vocabulary-review-
games.html
Montrealchristopher. (2009, February 20). Curriculum and technology integration.
Retrieved from http://montrealchristopher.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/curriculum-
and-technology-integration/
Smartboards and learning how to create notebook lessons. (2010, March 14). Retrieved
from http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/2010/03/smartboards-and-
learning-how-to-create-notebook-lessons.html
TechLearn. (2002). Interactive whiteboards in education. Retrieved November 6th, 2008
from www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documentsinteractivewhiteboards211102.doc
The Children's University of Manchester. (n.d.). Interactive, online learning for key stage
2 from the university of manchester. Retrieved from
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/
Tubbs, J. (2008, March 5). How the Smart board has changed my teaching. Retrieved
from http://misterteacher.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-smartboard-has-changed-
my-teaching.html
Wall, Kate, et al. 2005. “The visual helps me understand the complicated things”: Pupil
views of teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards. British Journal of
Educational Technology, 36 (5), 851-867.
Notes / Questions / Ideas