70 posts tagged iwb

Inspired by Doug Belshaw's post over here, I was finally inspired to try and build my own wii IWB system. I'm not the most practical person (I'm still very proud of my D+ in woodwork at school) and I have never soldered anything in my life.

If you enjoy working with images with your EFL students, especially on an IWB (interactive whiteboard) or a data projector, then PicLens is exactly what you need. PicLens is a plugin (small program) that works within your web browser (there are versions for Firefox, Safari and IE 7) and it converts

Just back from a demonstration of the 2Touch IWB system. What is 2Touch? [1] The latest Interactive Whiteboard to be introduced to the market is the revolutionary 2Touch. Offering a truly unique interactive whiteboard (IWB) experience the 2Touch is comprised of minute cameras located around the surface of the board which detect the exact location of any object approaching the screen.

New from those innovative people at Microsoft - a vertical screen, that you touch and interact with. Interesting idea. Hmm.. haven't we seen something like that before? Or to quote Apple recently - The Wow happened 5 years ago... Edit - Here it is in action

Love them or hate them, you have to admit that Google does offer us all manner of useful free tools. One of my favourites is Google Maps, especially useful on my odd trips to London (when I never seem to be able to remember my A-Z!) So, I've been thinking about how we could use this 'real world' tool to help our EFL students and to develop their abilities to give and understand directions.

Using Piclens as a presentation platform for your interactive whiteboard Posted by Rich White, filed under IWB. Date: May 13, 2008, 5:04 pm | No Comments » 13 May

Microsoft have finally released the public beta of their World Wide Telescope project, and I just had to write about it. It's a must for any Science teacher, or anyone interested in astronomy. Basically, its Microsoft's version of Google Earth/Sky and if you've used the Google version in the past then you'll pick this up very easily.

Issue #1 (April) 2008 of the AGQTP NSW newsletter has its focus on Interactive whiteboards: connected for learning, and contains several great articles on NSW schools:  * “Working mathematically with interactive whiteboards” at Illawarra Grammar School, Figtree (p 2) * ”Not just all play” with

Is this all we’ll need in the future for interactive presentations? Excited blog posts and Twitter-comments have been flying back-and-forth across the edublogosphere this week. Why? Because it’s now possible to build a cheap interactive whiteboard using the controller from a Nintendo Wii.

Oh dear... I think I taught 2 "proper" lessons in my classroom this week, with a Bank Holiday, Orals and SATs going on! With one of those classes I couldn't do anything with the IWB, as I'd just finished my Orals and was lacking in the creative department.