Google Presentation and Interactive White Board

This week, we finished up our Google Presentations. I made a slideshow of mammals using photos from Pics4Learning. It is embedded below.




The interactive white board is an amazing resource that we have just started learning about. There are so many actions and lessons you can do with it. "Interactive white board" is also the generic term for the resource. Some brand names are the "Smart Board" and the "Promethean Board." We were shown one lesson from many that can be downloaded from Promethean Planet, which has tons of FREE resources for teachers. Basically, they give you a free bank of resources to make you want/pay for the board, which can be very pricey. The only thing you have to be careful about is any teacher can upload a lesson they've created, so some of them may be great, but some may be pretty bad also. For our class, we will be downloading a software program called ActivInspire to develop our lessons. This software is free if you have a code that comes with a board. I am really excited to develop skills with the interactive white board, but I will be disappointed if I end up not having one when I start teaching, ha!