Interactive+White+Boards

The WhiteBoard Blog
= = Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. These tools are also cost effective. The Internet has tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Including a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning.

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This blog by Dr. Scott McLeod focuses on the use of instructional technology in schools and the technology leadership issues that educators are currently facing.

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 This blog by Will Richardson centers around the use of web-based technologies in the K-12 classroom such as blogs, wikis, RSS, and audiocasts.

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[|MegaPost] Resources that include multimedia and universal design for learning.

[|Interactive Multimedia Technology]


Wikis 
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|David Warlick's CoLearners Wiki]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> David Warlick manages this wiki that discusses the uses of wikis for teaching and learning while also providing information on other tools such as social networking, podcasting, and personal learning networks. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Classroom 2.0]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> This social network is made up of educators who discuss Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies and how to integrate them into classrooms.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This wiki focuses on current educational technologies and how they can be used with students. It focuses on the shift to 21st century literacy skills.

Interactive Whiteboards

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Link to Classroom 2.0 Social Network Discussions

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This social bookmarking site provides users a central location to tag, save, and share web pages.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 108%;"> Flickr is an online collaborative tool that can be used to organize photos and videos and share them with others.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|GameClassroom]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Game Classroom is a one-stop web destination for accessing high-quality educational games, and homework help for K-6 students. Game Classroom offers math games, homework help, worksheets and more. It is a great site for kids, parents and teachers.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have your students play this vocabulary game, and they’ll learn while donating food to people in need.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|FreeRice] **

Discovery Education’s Brain Boosters are challenging mental games.
 * [|Brain Boosters]**

This collection offers multimedia education on sharks, slavery, and more.
 * [|Learning Adventures]**

This website is home to more than 30,000 free books that you can read online
 * [|The Online Books Page]**

Bartleby offers lots of different texts online, from novels to reference.
 * [|Bartleby]**

Allow your kids to listen to audio books for free with this site.
 * [|Audio Books for Kids]**

In the RhymeZone, you can type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.
 * [|RhymeZone]**

This site offers illustrated children’s stories for free.
 * [|Children’s Storybooks Online]**

Create a customized printable word find worksheet with this tool.
 * [|Word Search Generator]**

On this site, you’ll find classics like Huckleberry Finn on audiobooks for free.
 * [|Free Classic Audiobooks]**

The Poetry Idea Engine is a great tool for writing haikus, limericks, and more**.
 * [|Poetry Idea Engine]**

[|Orangoo]** Use this quick online spell check to make sure your text is perfect.

Bibliomania offers more than 2,000 classic texts, along with notes, author biographies, and study guides.
 * [|Bibliomania]**

Check out these topics to assign to your students.
 * [|Writing Prompts/Journal Topics]**

Use these worksheets to help your students practice their handwriting.
 * [|Handwriting Worksheets]**

This project has more than 25,000 free books, and over 100,000 titles in its network.
 * [|Project Gutenberg]**

Take field trips online with this site**.
 * [|Electronic Fieldtrips]**

[|Exploratorium Hands-on Activities]** Here you’ll find activities including sport science, a journey to Mars, and cow’s eye dissection.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|SmartBoards Lessons Podcast]
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The future of digital whiteboards]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A presentation of a new kind of whiteboard software that lets you manipulate -- for real -- objects that you draw on a whiteboard.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Prometheanlearning] link to online courses for users of Promethean boards. The basic level is free.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|iwb.org.uk] is a rapidly growing bank of free to use tools and resources created for teachers who are teaching with an interactive whiteboard (IWB).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom] -This site provides ideas, lesson plans, and websites for using the SmartBoard in the classroom. This site is divided by content area.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom]- This site provides white board tutorials, downloads and interactive activities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">GO2WEB20 find all //Web 2.0// Tools and Applications on one page, get a short description, compare, read reviews, see what people are saying about each one on the //web//