Friday, November 11, 2016
Second week, post #1
My classroom utilizes the interactive whiteboard every day, for every lesson. The students are welcomed into the class with a message on the board that will be linked to their morning meeting. The message usually involves something the students are doing in class, which is a quick and easy review for them. Sometimes it revolves around holidays or other events going on in the school or the community. The interactive whiteboard is a Promethean Board, which I feel like I like more than the Smart Board. The Promethean Board is controlled by one pen and is not responsive to touch. My CT says that she prefers this brand of interactive whiteboard because for the younger students, they are able to lean their hand on the board or touch the board without it interfering or moving anything it's not supposed to. The only downside to the board is that a projector needs to be on the ceiling, which creates a shadow when you're working in front of the board. I'm looking forward to using the board to create a morning meeting for my class so that I can see how it differs from the Smart Boards we used in class.
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My classroom also uses the Interactive White Board at the beginning of each day. She uses it as a way for students to check in, and also to see what kind of lunch the student has. They drag their name to either the hot lunch column of the table or the home lunch column. The students cannot get enough of touching the Smart Board.
ReplyDeleteIt is efficient that in your classroom the Promethean Board is controlled by only one pen, and is not responsive to touch. (Because some students get a little crazy when they touch the board). It is inefficient that the projector needs to be on the ceiling and created a shadow when teaching infant of it. I wonder how the Promethean Board company could revise that? Great post Jessica! Hope your having a blast in your classroom! :)
I have never used a Promethean board, but I am thinking that the shadow issues is actually the type of projector that is being used. It is probably a typical projector mounted on the ceiling many feet from the projector. The one in the Discovery Lab is a "short throw" projector that is mounted right at the top of the whiteboard so the WB users don't stand between the projector and the WB and block the projection light.
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