Prompt #9

I will be discussing issue #13, which is about interactive whiteboards. Interactive whiteboards are amazing pieces of technology! I did not have these in my classrooms during elementary or middle school, but started seeing them in high school. The teachers tended to be territorial of them, so I never got to use one until I started student teaching. I wish I had more experience and knowledge of what they can do, because they truly have a mind of their own. From my experience in classrooms, the students (especially the younger ones) love their interactive white boards. There are so many creative things you can do with them. When teaching math, you can pull up grid lines and charts to make graphing easier. One classroom I was in also charted and tracker all of their daily behavior through a program on their interactive white board, called Class Mojo. The students got to go up every day at the end of school and chart their behavior for the day. The kids would get so excited to go up to the SmartBoard, and they loved that they got to interact with it. Every classroom in the district I grew up in now has these wonderful pieces of technology, and I hope I have one in my classroom. There are so many ways to utilize the interactive white boards, and in my opinion they are so much greater than the regular old white boards or the dreaded chalk boards!