interactive+white+boards+what+are+they

**What are they?** It is a touch-sensitive whiteboard which allows teachers and children to participate interactively in activities projected onto it from a data projector connected to a computer. The basic kit consists of three pieces of equipment: > The computer is connected to the projector and the projector is connected to the whiteboard. The projector displays the computer screen onto the board. The computer can then be controlled from the board using your finger or stylus like the computer mouse > Why use an Interactive Whiteboard? > Interactive Whiteboards can have a positive effect on teaching and learning in all subject > areas. As with ICT more generally, the impact on teaching and learning is dependant on  >  how successfully they are integrated into classroom practice. > Interactive whiteboards are powerful teaching tools, they have the potential to: > Enhance demonstration and modelling; > Improve the quality of interactions and teacher assessment through the promotion of effective questioning; > Redress the balance of making resources and planning for teaching; > Increase the pace and depth of learning. > Interactive whiteboards allow collective engagement with learning problems at greater depth. They encourage creative and seamless use of teaching materials including > Websites; > Video and audio; > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Internet and email; > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Interactive teaching programs; > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Interactive and electronic texts; > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Interactive software-digital flipcharts > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Use of additional peripherals such as electronic microscopes > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Digital cameras and scanners. > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">Texts can be written/created and data/information presented in electronic and multi-media formats, it can be re-presented in ways that further explore, unpack or elucidate the content, and communicated through e-presentations, e-mail and on the Internet.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">a computer
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">a data projector
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">a touch-sensitive whiteboard either using a stylus or a finger  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">depending on type of board.