15 September 2007

Numonics White Boards


One of the very first objectives that I established this year was to assist the teachers as they developed skills that would help them to bring their classrooms alive for their students. For nearly two years, Spring Hill Elementary had been slowly adopting the use of interactive white boards. Because these had been set in place with a laptop computer, projector, and ELMO visual presenter the boards were more often than not being used as an expensive screen. Very few teachers had been developing lessons that would utilize these Numonics boards and the Intelliboard software. In the summer, Cabell County Board of Education developed two-day training sessions to help expand the teachers' understanding of what these boards could offer. They also gave the teachers the support and time that they needed in order to create lessons that they could take back to their classrooms in the fall. By taking this experience one step further, I was able to offer the teachers at SHE a unique training day to familiarize themselves with the white boards and to present them with the idea of using interactive technology as a means of differentiated instruction. Check out some examples of VWB lessons below.

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