Interactive What-board?

The interactive whiteboard has a lot of potential when it comes to teaching Life Orientation and English. I had to think long and hard about how to incorporate it into these two subjects - my future - but it eventually came to me. 

It gives me the ability as a teacher to interact with the tweets my learners sent me (as mentioned somewhere else, I would like to use Twitter to connect with my learners). That way they can see the bigger picture of the conversations around our classroom. I can stream videos on it from the internet or Skype with other educators as guest teacher without them moving an inch. 

Learners will be able to write on the board and save their work directly to my computer, where I can then access it immediately or bring it up so that everyone can learn from whatever mistakes was made as in a spelling exercise. It gives me the power to edit my PowerPoint slides and fill in learners' comments and questions while I do the lesson. I can even let the Google look for something while I'm teaching and have it right there for my kids to see. In Life Orientation I can bring up videos that relate to my lessons. My learners can give old-fashioned presentations by drawing flow-charts and mind-maps on the board that I can e-mail with the click of mouse to all of my learners. 

I'm due for some interactive whiteboard training this week, so I will know more by my next blog. I'm am excited to use technology in my class however as a very skeptical person I am aware of the pitfalls and still believe in traditional teaching with creative undertones. 

Hopefully I do not get disappointed by the truth of the interactive whiteboard and will eventually be at a school that has one for me to use. 

I really have nothing more to say - you see- Interactive What-board? Hope I get to find out more soon. Happy teaching! :)