| Today teaching is using space age technology to | | | | easily as they would with a computer mouse. Instead |
| combine computerization and daily lessons on a grand | | | | of just watching the old fashioned projector images |
| scale. Interactive boards have been available for | | | | students and teachers are now given the opportunity |
| several years but now their popularity has made them | | | | of bringing the power and versatility of the computer |
| an important element in the majority of classrooms | | | | to life on the big screen. |
| around the world. | | | | The instructor can move quickly through the lesson |
| A whiteboard is one of the most technologically | | | | plans and cover a great deal of material in a much |
| advanced student response systems currently on the | | | | shorter period of time. Students are able to absorb the |
| market. The whiteboard comes equipped with a | | | | lessons more readily when they are presented on an |
| packet of software that can be installed directly onto | | | | whiteboard screen and the interactive features make |
| the PC of your choice. Then the board is connected to | | | | this system truly 'user friendly'. |
| the PC with either a USB port, wireless Bluetooth | | | | The written material that is needed for the class can |
| connection or some type of serial port cable. | | | | be typed with the whiteboard imaged keyboard, which |
| Then the software is able to transform the whiteboard | | | | is fast and efficient. Because the screen contains |
| into a fully interactive system that functions in the | | | | images of both the computer keyboard as well as the |
| same manner as your keyboard mouse. By using a | | | | mouse it is possible for the whiteboard user to handle |
| normal projector it is possible to create the computer's | | | | almost any aspect of the computerised display without |
| desktop image on the whiteboard screen. Now the | | | | leaving the screen. |
| user has a functional HID (human input device) to utilise | | | | However there are some interactive whiteboards that |
| as they choose. | | | | even translate cursive handwriting to easily readable |
| As soon as the computer connections are established | | | | print. Teachers are delighted when they discover how |
| the whiteboard is activated. This allows the user of | | | | quickly they can present the lessons to their class with |
| these student response systems to choose the | | | | the use of a whiteboard system. |
| programs, menus and keyboard commands just as | | | | |