Interactive white board

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Summary

IWB, interactive white board, a huge electronic board connected to a PC and projector to display the PC content which is used widely in schools, colleges and training sessions for teaching lessons.

In past years

With increase in science and technology, the world has been enhancing itself a lot, day by day. During past years, in schools and colleges, the students were lessoned through black board by writing using chalks. Now, the world has improved and we have IWB that is Interactive white board which has made everything easier.

Here after no need to write in the black board and waste time during class hours. No need to rub the board. No need to dust your dress to remove chalk powders that spread all over. No need of getting tried by writing in the board for long time. This IWB can also be used in corporate board rooms, in training sessions, for professional sports coaching or in broadcasting studios and more.

About IWB, [Interactive white board]

An interactive white board is a huge interactive display which is actually connected to a computer and projector. A projector is a device which projects the computer’s desktop onto the board’s surface which is typically placed on a wall or floor stand. So it will display the entire things that are being installed in your Computer or laptop.

So if you are a professional teacher or trainer to a corporate company, just prepare your entire session content and copy it in your PC or CD or any drive. Then install those files into the PC that is connected to the IWB. Now you could teach your students or trainees in a professional way.

Advantages

Another important benefit about this IWB is one-time preparation of your lessons. Yes! Because if you are using board, you will need to write down the points every time you teach to different pupils. But now, prepare the lesson topics and important notes once and save in your hard disk or drive. Whenever you want just open and start teaching wherever u go. So you could save time as well!

Future Expectation

According to market research by Futuresource consulting, it is being expected that this IWB will occupy one of every seven class rooms in the world.

About 26% of British primary schools are teaching through IWB. Since it has received good welcome from all over the world, it is expecting that the average count would probably rise in the future in primary as well as in secondary schools and colleges.

Apart from schools and colleges, these IWB can also be used for training sessions in corporate concerns, in meeting rooms and in various professions.

Using this IWB, you could operate any software or open files that are installed in your PC or laptop. Presenters can also carry out pools and quizzes and capture the feedback using some IWB provided with an audience response system.

Varieties of IWB

We have many varieties of IWB. But the majority of IWB sold currently globally are resistive touch based IWB, Electromagnetic pen based IWB and portable ultrasonic, IR pen based IWB, wiimote IR IWB and virtual white board.

Usually all these IWB‘s are for same use but they have their own specific features so users could buy the one based on their needs and convenience.

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Summary

Interactive white board, IWB, a huge display screen connected to PC which is used widely in most of the schools, colleges and corporate companies for teaching purposes.

IWB, Interactive White board:

Interactive white board, IWB in short is an interactive large electronic screen that displays the content of the PC that is being connected to it. Thanks to the growing trend and technology, for understanding the human’s need and introducing new and innovative products to the market. This IWB with its key feature and specifications has made the teachers in the school, professors in the college and trainers in the corporate concern feel convenient and ease because they could save time as well as teach the lessons just with the touch of a screen.

Modern Class rooms

This IWB has made the classrooms as revolutionizing modern one, with the latest technology. Apart from its cost and adequate training, the educator says it is a gift for today’s students which tempt their attention and interest more and re-energizing the profession as well.

User-Friendly

Moreover, it’s user-friendly and people who know to operate computer could use this easily. Since its screen is big in size, the content would be large enough and is visible clearly even for the student sitting at last row. Because IWB is connected to the computer, whatever things you could do using PC can also be done with IWB. For example, the person at the end is not able to see the letters or diagrams in the screen clearly, you could increase the size of the text or image as you do in the computer.

Black board, a complicate teaching.

In past days, all were using black boards for teaching school students, college students and even in corporate and bank companies for training sessions. It was really complicate thing to work with black boards, because to write something in the board they need to use chalk piece. This chalk piece is made of chemicals and it will spread all around the class room as well as on the person who is writing on the black board. Also once the board space is written fully and there is no space to write, they need to rub the whole board. Here this is the major hard thing. While rubbing the board, the chalk pieces will spread and it will even cause dust allergies for some people. This will affect both the student and teacher.

Heavenly gift

So today, this IWB, lets say a heavenly gift from the technology guru’s which has made the today’s teaching environment as fresh and modern room. It is combining with touch screen technology and internet access to allow users to share videos, files, images and plug into a large array of teaching software.

‘The teachers who have the best success with technology would be able to sit and learn with kids and it is actually change in thinking, not an age thing. Over the past few years, most of the primary schools are using this IWB for their students to teach math concepts, shapes and sizes and language arts. The teachers say students are engaged more and listening with enthusiasm than they were before the boards came along.

Even the students are saying that ‘Teaching is fun and exciting, but IWB has made it

even more exciting’

                             

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Summary

An innovative and efficient way of teaching students is by presenting the concepts

with good equipment like IWB which would improve their quality and excellence in

studies. Let’s see in detail what is ‘IWB’ and its uses.

Providing good presentation

Students are the strong pillar to the future world and the way to enhance their talents and intelligence is by learning. Thus presentation plays a vital role in teaching because the way the teacher presents the lesson is important for the student to understand well. Today, with increase in technology and science, we have many presentation tools which would helps in improve the education quality and helps the students to understand the concept clearly.

Presentation tools

Presentation tools are increasing in popularity for educators who like to share their ideas and information with many students and people as well. This interactive application is high in demand from the educator’s side because they want to provide quality education and also their teaching, an interesting one which would make their students to involve more. So the modern technology has given us a great gift which would make both students and teachers happy. That is Interactive white board, in short IWB.

Introduction about IWB

IWB is nothing but an electronic screen which is huge in size and connected to computer and projector. The screen will display the content which is being installed in the computer and the user can have the control to operate the IWB screen using a pen, pencil, finger or other device provided with it. The user could navigate from one page to another or operate the icons in the screen just by touching the screen using the pen or finger. This screen is typically mounted to a wall or a floor stand. It will actually project the content from the desktop and display it on the screen.

Improvement in student studies and interest

The study showed that there is statically great improvement in student’s studies and there are showing more interest. Not only the students, also the teachers feel ease and convenient by teaching their pupils using IWB. The major benefit of using IWB is not only from the student’s perspective but for the teachers as well because they could save time and able to finish their portions soon. They could make them understand the concepts with clear view by demonstrating through the huge screen.

Save time and innovative way of teaching

Also, one-time preparation for one topic also applicable in this IWB teaching. Yes!

Because any one who is teaching, in school or in college or in corporate company as training sessions would also teach the same topic to maximum students or trainees. In this regard, if the teacher is using black board they need to write down the concepts each and every time they take the class to different people in different class.

So they need to write down the concepts, so it may consume some extra time. But when using IWB, that is Interactive white board, they could prepare all the important notes, concepts and points in a word document and save in their PC or any drive and can open and explain at any time where IWB is available. So this IWB is an interactive, efficient and innovative way of teaching lessons to the students which is beneficial from both sides. It is expecting that in fore coming years, IWB would place a major role in max of the schools, colleges and corporate companies.

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Summary

In learning, presentation plays a major role. So using presentation tools like IWB is very important for teaching. It is not only ease and convenient to use but also create interest and enthusiasm among the student for learning.

Learning

Learning plays a vital role in each and every person all over the world. Nowadays there is tremendous increase in the count of students started to learn compare to the past years. So the schools and colleges are also getting increased and they are trying to implement more efficient and interesting way to make their students understand the concepts clearly. Modern technology has understood the needs of the today’s world and it has been introducing many products to the market to enhance the people quality of life. To make the students understand the concepts and theories, the presentation keeps a major role. Because, the way the teacher dictate the lesson would make them to listen with interest.

IWB, an interactive white board

When the presentation lacks, there will be lack in the student’s studies as well. There are many presentation equipments available in the market and the famous one among them is IWB that is Interactive white board, which is actually a huge board which would project the content that is there in the computer, being connected to it.

IWB and how it works

Normally, this IWB is connected with projector and PC and it would display all the stuffs which are installed in the system. The user could operate the board with the help of pen or pencil or with their finger as well. The user could control both from the computer and from the board. Even the user could add notations or important points and emphasize them by using a pen or highlighter tool.

Professional way of teaching

Nowadays, most of the schools are using this IWB for their students to provide quality and excellent education in a professional way. It is actually beneficial for both students and teachers.

Also IWB is more user friendly and ease with more convenience. Anyone could understand its functionality soon and start operating it. It’s exciting. Right! But its truth. Because the user could navigate from one page to another or run application by using their finger or pen directly over the board. It is actually working as a touch screen of the mobile phone.

Types of IWB

There are many variety of interactive white boards are available and some of them which are used most commonly all over the world are resistive touch based IWB, electromagnetic pen based IWB, portable ultrasonic IWB, wiimote IWB and virtual white board. All these IWB are differs form each other with their unique specification and features.

These IWB’s are used in some schools as replacements for traditional black boards or flipcharts. Apart from teaching, the user could also connect to school network digital video distribution system and interact with online shared annotation. The software supplied with IWB would actually allow the user to keep notes annotation as electronic file for future usage.

IWB is not only used in schools and colleges but it is also used in corporate and other companies during meeting sessions or in training sessions. Moreover we could say using IWB is the best and professional way of presenting the concepts and lessons to the students and trainees.