| Can you remember the tedious classroom lessons, | | | | materials. It also allows for the showing of web pages |
| waiting for what seemed like hours for the teacher to | | | | for lesson content and pictures of a quality not |
| chalk every single individual word onto a black board? | | | | previously available. |
| Watching while she erased and wrote more - often | | | | Charts and graphs are easily displayed on an |
| erasing before you had time to copy it down? Do you | | | | interactive whiteboard to make instruction and |
| remember the oft illegible teachers writing? It always | | | | demonstration much simpler. It is even possible for |
| used to amaze me that these people were teachers, | | | | pupils to display their own work this way. Given |
| yet I couldn't understand what they were writing. | | | | today's children's fascination for anything that looks like |
| In my primary school, it was always the teacher's pet | | | | a TV screen, this is an excellent way of keeping them |
| that got given the job of chalk erasing. On the odd | | | | engaged. |
| occasion I got picked, it was just an excuse for me to | | | | As a standard piece of equipment in every type of |
| get out of five minutes writing. And that noise of nails | | | | college, the interactive whiteboard is a helpful tool in |
| on a chalk board? Man, that was the worst sound and | | | | practical demonstrations that only have to be carried |
| I think we've all had at least one teacher that thought it | | | | out once to be shared. I'm sure this will be good news |
| an amusing way of gaining attention. | | | | to my son who spent last week's biology lesson |
| In my last year of primary school, we had a | | | | dissecting a pig's heart! |
| whiteboard installed and this was an exciting event for | | | | Not just an application for the classroom, the |
| us. All the children clamoured to have a go with the felt | | | | interactive whiteboard is an invaluable asset to |
| tip on the board and wiping was just as satisfying. It | | | | businesses too. Presentations are clearer, more |
| was certainly easier to read but just as time | | | | straightforward and bring a professional edge to the |
| consuming as a black board. | | | | boardroom. Preparation can be made well in advance |
| Installed in most schools and colleges these days are | | | | for those tricky questions regarding possible future |
| interactive whiteboards and these have taken teacher | | | | hiccups or advantages with graphs showing every |
| pupil communication to a much higher level. Interaction | | | | possible eventuality. |
| is now a possibility and teacher preparation has been | | | | The use of an interactive whiteboard in the business |
| taken to new heights. | | | | environment will show strategic planning and |
| Lessons can be prepared well ahead, removing the | | | | forethought with more clarity than any other possible |
| necessity for the teacher to stand in front of the | | | | medium. The black board or flip up note pad on a |
| board. Numerous pages of text can be prepared on a | | | | stand looks positively outdated now! |
| computer or overhead projector which means you | | | | The advancement of this method of communicating |
| need never miss any part of the lesson again as it will | | | | information to others has revolutionised teaching in a |
| be saved and can easily be retrieved if need be. | | | | huge way. It may now be standard equipment but at |
| Laptops and classroom based computers can be | | | | least the children of today will never have to compete |
| hooked up to the interactive whiteboard, enabling the | | | | with the fat teachers profile against a black board. |
| teacher to skip back and forth between lesson | | | | |