iwb+meeting

Thank you Neil for making your classroom available to us and for sharing your expertise with your Active Board. Thanks also to Bream Bay College for the loan of the Mimio iwb device. Lots of discussion around use of iwb's. Mostly in agreement with Nigels comments on the Interactive Whiteboard Debate on eLearningnorthland. One comment which was agreed with by those using iwb's was that it is better to give one teacher sole use of the board rather than to install it in a shared space and expect teachers to take their classes to the board when they want to use it. The reality is that teachers will only develop expertise if they have the tool available all the time and it can become their normal way of working. If you are thinking of purchasing iwb's then it would make sense to visit local schools that are using the different types, try them out and speak to the teachers who are using them. Please add to this list if you know a school which is using a particular type of iwb. Kamo Primary Kamo High Glenbervie School Ngungaru School Whangarei Boy's High School Bream Bay College
 * Active Boards (Promethian)**
 * Smart Boards**
 * Mimio**

Also mentioned were Neil talked about SubEthaEdit, a collaborative text editor http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ I think that this is a Mac only product. Nigel mentioned a web based equivalent. http://www.skrbl.com/ Neil also showed some work his students had done adding voice recordings to photographs. You can do this in an online, collaborative environment using Voicethread http://voicethread.com/#home