More+IWB+resources

=Click onto the icons and links below to go to some wonderful IWB resources .=      This is a link to a sharepoint site in the UK which has lots of smartboard tutorials and help files. [|IWB Getting Started Files] This is a link to a wiki set up in 2008 as an IWB Challenge. Each week staff were challenged to try something new. Check it out and get some ideas. ** http://whiteboardchallenge.wikispaces.com/
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:teachertech.JPG align="center" link="http://teachertechnologies.com/primaryresources.php"]] ||   List of IWB resource websites collated by a teacher in South Australia. Lots of UK links for resources related to Easiteach, Smartboards and Promethean (plus more!) ||
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:kent.JPG align="center" link="http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/IWB/general_resources.htm"]] ||   List from the UK with primary and secondary resources plus resources based on Board types ||
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:topmarks.JPG align="center" link="http://www.topmarks.co.uk/"]] ||   A UK site with lots of resources - follow the link to Interactive Whiteboard resources ||
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:primaryresources.JPG width="229" height="90" align="center" link="http://www.primaryschool.com.au/"]] ||  Search for Interactive Whiteboard resources (it's part of the Learning Technologies section) plus lots more including a range of ICT resources ||
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:smart.JPG align="center" link="http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/default.htm"]] ||  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> SMART Technologies website. This links goes directly to a list of Notebook lesson activities for a range of countries. If you can't find anything for Australia, try UK or Canada. ||
 * [[image:dorset-conference-09:fdlrs.JPG align="center" link="http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/content/interactivesites.html"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">List under the headings of General, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies from the Technology Center for the Deaf in Florida USA ||
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Lots of interactive activities for primary school. Very popular with teachers. <span style="color: rgb(220, 9, 9);"> <span style="color: rgb(248, 22, 22);"> []

[|Spelling City] This is another popular site with teachers.

This site has links to easiteach lessons <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 69);"> []

A collection of great interactives []

The Whiteboard Forum - lots of discussion and ideas.<span style="color: rgb(247, 64, 66);"> [|The Whiteboard Forum]

Lots of ideas and resources to be adapted. <span style="color: rgb(244, 37, 37);"> []

[] Join the new Primary Teachers Network at http://primaryteachersnetwork.ning.com It has lots and lots of IWB resources available.
 * <span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 255);"> The WhiteBoard Blog **
 * <span style="color: rgb(29, 0, 255);">A network of teachers **

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 * <span style="color: rgb(14, 180, 4);">Downloadable Easiteach resources **
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 192, 20);">A wonderful site to create a cute avatar - would be fun on the IWB **

Check out these showcases on ePotential [|IWB Showcase ePotential]

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=Research findings on IWB= http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ed/iaw/ Research on IWBs from UK, worth following.

The Interactive Whiteboards, Pedagogy and Pupil Performance Evaluation: An Evaluation of the Schools Whiteboard Expansion (SWE) Project: London Challenge []

Recent research into IWBs [|Research 2008 - Innovations Showcase]

[|Successful Use of ICT in Schools - VIT Digest 2009/1]

=Widgets= http://www.harmonyhollow.net/ Choose **Totally Free Teacher Tools,** also **The Hat** & **Cool Timer** (sorry only available for windows users).

Create magnificent **word clouds** - [] =Maths= Remember to use the student access codes for your class [] **Area counting with Coco** [] **Area of triangles** [] **Cassowary sanctuary (fractions)** []
 * DigiLearn Objects** These are just a couple of the hundreds of learning objects you can find at https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlr/Pages/default.aspx
 * Wishball: whole numbers**

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http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/resources/IWB/index.asp
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 54, 54);">New ** Lots of resources, ideas and discussion

Below is a link to a slideshow with a collection of ideas for flipcharts http://www.slideshare.net/betchaboy/show-and-tell-a-collection-of-flipchart-ideas-presentation?src=embed

Below is a link to a slideshow displaying software which is particularly useful on the big screen of an IWB http://www.slideshare.net/betchaboy/better-on-the-big-screen?src=embed

You have an IWB - Now What? A wiki of a presentation by Chris Betcher in Montreal. Lots of additional resources http://betchablog.wikispaces.com/IWB+Now+What

If you have Promethean whiteboard, try these links. [|Promethean Planet] is a site that provides f[|ree downloadable flipcharts]. There is also a section where practicing teachers [|share what they have created.]

If you have a [|SmartBoard], try these links To download the software you will need to use [|go to this link.] There is an expectation that you will only use this software on the SmartBoard. For SmartBoard teacher resources try here. http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=243,index&zs=n Provides a normal and dedicated versions of number of whiteboard resources and activities for foundation, primary and secondary classes. [|Purchasing an Interactive Whiteboard]

http://iwbnet.ning.com/ An IWB community - read their comments and check out the resources.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/word_mover/words.01.html A good activity where words can be moved around.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx?grade=4&srchstr=gradient&SE=1 Interactive maths activities

http://www.classtools.net/ These are wonderful online tools - include some thinking tools. I really like the POSTIT activity.

http://www.prometheanworld.com/us/server/show/nav.4960 resources for the Promethean brand of board.

http://www.schools.ash.org.au/smccab/default.htm/IWB.htm Various resources form Australia

http://www.skrbl.com/ An online IWB. very interesting.

http://smarttech.com/ SmartBoard resources

http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html#resources Various resources - some links may be dead.

http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/flash/home.html More maths interactives - some for senior students.

http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm Make poetry with those cool little magnets - this ones for kids...