Aims and Objectives

Module 5 - Classroom Management and using other technologies with your IWB

Aims and Objectives

Morning Session• Explore ways of using the interactive whiteboard more

effectively in the classroom.• Explore different methods of classroom management while

using an interactive whiteboard.

Afternoon Session• Explore non interactive whiteboard specific technology to use

with an interactive whiteboard in order to enhance the teaching of literacy in the classroom.

• Share resources created with other participants on this course.

• Picture as stimulus• Written activity• Mind Mapping• Sorting• Text disclosure• Drag and drop activities• Annotating text• Shared reading• Story writing• Demonstrating handwriting• Online classroom books• Make it personal and easy!

See pgs 69 to 72 of NCTE course manual for more ideas.

Classroom Management

SKYPE

• Free• Facilitates communication between classes in the

same school or classes in different schools• Keeping in touch with pupils abroad• Enhancing email projects• Collecting data within a school• Interviewing within a school.

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Pocket Video Cameras

• Create instructional video (procedural writing)• Record drama and role plays • Interview other children• Create an ad for their favourite book• Create a storyboard and enact the story themselves

• See page 77/78 of NCTE course manual for further ideas and useful links.

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Visualisers

Why use a visualiser?• Display childrens’ work and other items on a large

screen to the full class

Ideas for use• Display childrens’ work• Show artefacts or other small items such as coins• Demonstrate how to hold pencil• Demonstrate science experiments• Child demonstrates how to make shapes using

tangrams

• Pocket Video Cameras

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Hot Potatoes

• Free to use - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/• Create interactive activities for the web• JQuiz – question based quizzes• JCross – crossword puzzles• JCloze – gap fill exercises• JMatch – matching or ordering exercises• Jmix – jumbled sentence exercises

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Sharing Resources

• One of the most important elements of the course• Share resources for subject and class group• Share links, useful websites etc• Hints and tips of experiences in the classroom.

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Checklist

In this module, you have

Considered practical ways of using your IWB in the classroom

Created a SKYPE account and explored SKYPE as a literacy resource

Created some resources using Hot Potatoes

Considered use of visualisers and pocket cameras

Shared your resources

Finally....

ReminderIf you are interested in further NCTE professional development

opportunities, logon to www.ncte.ie/training

Finally, have you

1. Signed the rollbook?2. Completed the online participant evaluation form?

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Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

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