Interavtive whtie board in teaching

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Hi everyone!anyone here ever use the interactive white board in teaching esl/ efl?currently we are exploring the idea, and are trying it out..seems to have great potentintial, students are much more motiviated and the teacher reports that his students' scores are getting better.any comments?

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[nq:1]Hi everyone! anyone here ever use the interactive white board in teaching esl/ efl? currently we are exploring the idea, ... great potentintial, students are much more motiviated and the teacher reports that his students' scores are getting better. any comments?[/nq]
Yes. We have them in virtually all classrooms. Waste of money. Every time I try to write on the thing with the digital pens I have to recalibrate it. I once did a cut up and rearrange activity, using drag and drop to shift sentences round, which worked in a half hearted sort of way, but it wasn't anything you couldn't do in another way. Projecting a giant desktop and leaping about clicking icons with your fingers is kinda fun, but then again, unless you get one of the mega expensive boards with back projection your own shadow stops you from being able to see what you're doing.
OTOH, bench PC with Word and an internet connection in every room, data projector, conventional screen, that's something I now absolutely rely on. And a lot cheaper.
Have you thought of investing in a spell checker?
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[nq:1]Hi everyone! anyone here ever use the interactive white board in teaching esl/ efl? currently we are exploring the idea, ... to have great potentintial, students are much more motiviated and the teacher reports that his students' scores are getting better.[/nq]
PS Why? Our students don't think the whiteboards per se are any big deal. Being able to bring up Google images to reveal a picture of some concrete noun object (last week it was rhubarb) or use online dictionaries with classes is brilliant, but none of this depends on shelling out for the interactive whiteboard. When I've got students up to use the things they don't like them. And *** forbid what happens if some prat writes on one of them with a conventional, ink- based board marker.
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