Interactive White Boards

Using The iPad As A Digital Whiteboard (Plus 4 Cool Free Apps To Try It Out)

August 28, 2011

There are some nice free Digital Whiteboards apps available for the iPad. Free rocks. I found myself wondering how the iPad might work as a Digital Whiteboard, to project, as well as to use collaboratively. I also wondered if there might be some free apps that provide this kind of functionality (there are so many decent [...]

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iPads in Education – Implementation Stories and Lessons Learned (continued)

July 17, 2011

Part Two of our look into results and best practices being generated from iPad rollouts in education. Last week we started looking at rollouts of iPads in schools by searching out, reading, and summarizing findings in articles discussing these types of programs. This week we continue our examination of this topic by sharing take-aways from this excellent article in the March/April 2011 Educause Review. Educators [...]

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Exploring the World of Free Teaching Productivity Resources on the Web

November 28, 2010

There are so many free productivity tools available on the Internet for today’s educators. I’m creating a resource page that list many of the most useful ones, and I’d love to have your input! By “productivity” tools and resources, I am referring to tools that can help teachers get their jobs done more efficiently or effectively, at no cost (beyond the [...]

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The Eno Interactive Whiteboard – A Teacher’s First Glimpse

September 19, 2010

In this week’s feature post, an instructor shares his initial experience with the Polyvision Eno Interactive White Board. Guest Post By James Lines Ed Note: This post is sort of a follow up to a series of posts I did here late last year in which I started learning about IWBs and discussed my experiences working with [...]

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Taking Mimio’s low-cost, portable Interactive White Board device for a test run

June 20, 2010

This week, I tried out an “Interactive Xi Bar” that the folks at Mimio loaned me. I really liked it. A few months ago I learned about this unique approach to turning a regular white board into an Interactive White Board. The Mimio Bar is easy to use and highly portable - it clips on to a white board [...]

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Let’s stop misspending education technology dollars

June 16, 2010

A lot of schools have over spent on, and under supported, interactive white boards and other education technologies. I was fascinated by this article yesterday in the Washington Post. The article is a follow up on a prior piece in the Post that explained that “a view is emerging that the large amounts of money schools [...]

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6 Free Online Interactive White Boards

April 18, 2010

An update to last April’s post about free web-based IWBs. Last April, I wrote a post about a few Online Interactive Whiteboards that I had checked out. That post remains one of my most popular posts, so obviously this is a topic of interest to a lot of people.  I figured it was time for an [...]

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Mimio’s unique approach to Interactive White Board technology

April 14, 2010

An intriguing approach to delivering IWB functionality, in a smart, affordable, portable package. Late last year I did a series on Interactive Whiteboards. I spent a good deal of time trolling the Internet, watching YouTube videos, and talking with vendors to learn about products, but I have to admit that this one just slipped under [...]

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Next steps in considering Interactive Whiteboards for our (Higher Ed) classrooms

December 6, 2009

Using a Wii Board & ActiveInspire software to demonstrate IWB’s, at little cost. In November I started working with a team of faculty members and technologists to learn about today’s Interactive White Board offerings, and I’ve been posting a series of articles about our efforts. This week we reviewed what we have learned so far, [...]

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Promethean’s Interactive Whiteboard and related instructional products

November 22, 2009

The 4th post in a series in which we have been learning about Interactive Whiteboards for the classroom. Three weeks ago I started this effort with a post in which I researched market leaders and confirmed that the ubiquitous SMART Board is the clear market leader (with about 50% market share). Of the many other manufacturers that split [...]

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