Blog #3: Interactive Whitebaords & SRS

Use todays discussions, readings from class, and readings emailed to you to answer respond to the following blog posting.

Interactive whiteboards (SMART or Promethean) promote more hands on, active learning type activities for teachers to use in the classroom. The ability to manipulate the computer from the board untethers the teacher from his or her computer to focus on students, to capture text or record a presentation for students to access for remediation or support. In your previous blogs, you all wrote about technology professional development and obstacles to technology integration, how might these two technologies be used to support effective professional development for teachers? Also, describe 5 lesson ideas integrating interactive whiteboards in your classroom. In your lesson discussions, describe how the use of this technology increases the effectiveness of the lesson versus not using the technologies.