‘Explore practical uses of the Interactive Whiteboard in your classroom. Experience a wide range of exemplar activities and practical step-by-step tutorials while also learning how to create your own classroom materials’

Course Modules

1. Interactive Whiteboard Basics
2. Using ActivInspire / SMART Notebook / eBeam Scrapbook IWB Software
3. Finding Curriculum Resources Online
4. Organising and Sharing Resources
5. Creating Your Own Resources

Technical Requirements

This course is suitable for novice users and you do not need access to an IWB while participating. All our courses require broadband Internet access (Min of 1mb recommended) and participants need to be familiar with using the internet, downloading and installing software.

Course Objectives

Teachers will be enabled to locate and create interactive educational resources which maximise the potential of the Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom. They will gain an understanding of how the use of ICT in practical ways can make learning more stimulating for their students.

Expected Outcomes

The participants will develop their ICT skills through the location, manipulation, organisation and creation of curriculum resources suitable for use with the Interactive Whiteboard. They will understand how the integration of this process into their everyday teaching will help their students’ learning.

Assessment Criteria

Teachers will create a curriculum resource and will write reflective paragraphs on how they think the resource will engage their students. They will post their work to the dedicated forum.

Course Duration

Delivered online, this course can be taken anytime, anywhere between Wednesday July 1st and Friday 28th August, 2009. You will be expected to engage meaningfully with course content for approximately 20 hours. The course will be facilitated by our team of TeachNet facilitators and at the end of the course we will provide you with a Continuous Professional Development Record.

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