Interactive Whiteboard Fun!

Recently we have been using our new interactive whiteboard in class. Usually this type of technology costs a few thousand dollars to outfit one classroom, however the school district did some research online and learned how to configure a similar setup using only a Wii controller and an infra-red pen-light.

The interactive whiteboard works like a touchscreen, allowing students to digitially draw, write, or annotate on anything projected by the computer. So far we have used this technology to examine and annotate historical images, to better understand the electoral process, and to model assignments.

Students shared the images they drew in response to Preview 6 ("Describe a situation in which you could have used the words: 'It was the last straw'"):

Before begininning Activity Notes 6 (repharsing excerpts from the Declaration of Independance), we did a couple of examples together as a class:

In the days before the presidential election, students made predictions about how they thought each state would vote. By simply touching the states on the screen they could turn them red or blue (just like on CNN!):