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IWBs in Secondary: Where is the Interaction?

Is an interactive whiteboard inherently interactive? What makes it so or not so? What qualifies as 'quality' interaction? Why is interaction considered good in a learning context?
Hopefully we will get a chance to explore some of these questions in my presentation.

In the mean-time, what are people's thoughts re the application of IWBs as a teaching and learning tool in the Secondary setting?

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Permalink Reply by Dianne Mckenzie on May 1, 2008 at 10:30am: Hi Jason,
Just saw the remote voting being used in a year 3 class last week - the kids loved it, instant feedback for the teacher, the students and made pop quizes much more fun and interactive and less paper work for the teacher.

There are many ready made cutsie applications for primary schools - am interested in how you and others use them in the secondary school to be truly interactive - not just an expensive screen.

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Permalink Reply by Dianne Mckenzie on May 2, 2008 at 12:33pm: Here is a link to earning objects being created in HKU by Daniel Churchill - may be inspirational or not to some for IWB use in School.

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Permalink Reply by Paul McMahon on May 14, 2008 at 1:26pm: Had a look at these Dianne. I have to say that they are pretty basic.

What ever happened to the Learning Objects that the Learning Federation were using government money to develop and make available to all Australian Schools? The examples I saw in 2004 were great but I have not heard much about them since then.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on May 14, 2008 at 5:05pm: We have a copy of the 2007 disc at AISHK. Some good ones there. Quite heavily weighted towards Maths and Science; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paul McMahon on May 14, 2008 at 5:23pm: Who is allowed to have access to them? Are they available under some sort of creative commons license or are they locked up?
I remember when the LFA was first set up there was a lot of hype about how schools would have to have a VPN in place to access them. They were going to be sooooo good and sooooo desirable. I even know some schools that installed solutions like Studywiz and Scholaris citing access to the LOs as the motivation!
Here's hoping that there are fewer and fewer walled gardens for these and a lot more sharing!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dianne Mckenzie on May 19, 2008 at 8:04am: The learning objects from Daniels group are basic, that is because they are being made by his students as he teaches them. In many cases, basic is what people need to start with, and then they can think about it and be motivated to create their own.

I was surprised at the conference at how many people had not heard of wiki's, podcasts, delicious and other web 2.0 applications and these are now considered basic by many and even new. Everyone is at a different level, and if basic is what is required to get people to begin to use applications, then it is a good start.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on May 3, 2008 at 11:12am: Here is the slideshow:

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Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on May 3, 2008 at 11:32am: I should say that if you go to the end of the slideshow, all of the reference links are available.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paul McMahon on May 10, 2008 at 4:30pm: Great Slides Jason!

What are you using for your presentations?

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Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on May 10, 2008 at 5:36pm: A little old program called PowerPoint, you may have heard of it ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kieran Ryan on May 20, 2008 at 11:40pm: Hey Jason,

I've finally got some time to use some of the stuff you suggested - but I can't remember which site you recommended for slidecasts (or whatever they're called!) Was it slidecast.com?

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