‘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. Getting to know your IWB software (ActivInspire, SMART Notebook & eBeam Scrapbook)
2. Finding Curriculum Resources Online
3. Organising and Sharing Resources
4. Creating Your Own Resources
5. Interactive Teaching and Learning

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

The course tutor will review the forum postings, practical work and course reflective learning log completed by the participant to ensure that:

• Teachers have made a reflective posting at the end of each lesson reflecting on an aspect of how the Interactive Whiteboard will be used in their classroom.
• Teachers have created a curriculum resource using the Powerpoint (or flipchart software of their choice) and uploaded it to the course VLE.
• They have written a reflective post on how they think the resource will engage their students.

Course Duration

Delivered online, this course can be taken anytime, anywhere between Thursday July 1st and Friday 27th August, 2010. Participants will be encouraged to engage meaningfully with course content for approximately 20 hours. Whilst engagement with the course content will be primarily judged on the quality of their contributions, a log of their time spent working on the course will be kept.

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