EY+3-4+Activities

Experiences with IWB – group introduction • Temperature – looking up average temperature in Melbourne over a year and graph in Excel • Explore Open Source software to download for use on various boards • Go to TED TALKS series of videos on the web and see how to use Nintendo Wii as an interactive whiteboard • Using Google Earth • Research circle with students • Use of Reebok step to allow children to better reach board or stage blocks • Student presentation of projects • Interactives on DEECD website – http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.htm • Online games through Google • Digilearn • Digilearn – sequencing in maths – designed specially for IWB’s • Writing – wireless keyboard – editing together (from student work saved on shared drive and sharing student work) • Good resources from the UK – perhaps through www.bbc.co.uk on childrens’ pages? • Using the blind (hide function) for spelling and diary writing • Connecting words – hidden behind shaped and dragged out • Maths – angles (using tools with board) • Boards shared when teachers have APT (limited number of boards in the school) • Literacy & maths rotations for first 5 minutes of lesson so students know what group they’re in and what to do next (time saving) • Student wikis with resources • Timelines • Used for photographic roll marking, date, weather (often done by students who come in early to school) • Self assessment – flip charts for prompts for children • Recording function – record your voice – like podcasting a lesson, or use external software like snaggit or camtasia • Students working in pairs & teaching each other • Literacy – poetry – saving as a file • Running banner across bottom of screen – “what’s on today” • Sharing student sporting or performance video from outside school

Technical Issues • Use of short throw projectors – shadow thrown on board with other projectors • Board requiring constant re-calibration • Cabling problems for laptops being plugged in/out every day

Other Ideas for IWB community • Grouped according to developmental stage • Various boards to demonstrate variety of software • Curriculum focus areas