Interactive Whiteboards MAY 2010 - 10 May 2010

Interactive Whiteboards

Making Them Effective for History Students and Classrooms

(This professional learning activity is appropriate for both the novice teacher and for teachers who use IWBs).

Teachers will be required to bring their own laptops.

Date
Monday 10 May 2010, 9.00am–3.30pm

Venue
VATE Conference Room 2
134–136 Cambridge Street
Collingwood

Cost
$185/Individual member
$250/School member
$300/Non-member

Morning tea and lunch will be provided

HTAV ABN: 44 005 739 239

This is an exclusive opportunity to attend a whole-day, hands-on workshop that will equip you with skills that you can use immediately in the classroom. If you haven't had the opportunity to be trained properly using this tool, attendance at these special days is a MUST. These sessions will be strictly limited to 25 participants. Book now to avoid disappointment!

This Professional Learning Seminar is suitable for VELS LEVELS 4, 5 & 6.

Is your school equipped with interactive whiteboards but are you unsure about their relevance in the history classroom? Have you perhaps tried using an IWB for a little while but need more hands-on experience? Or maybe you have never even been near one? This professional development is for teachers who wish to explore a powerful tool in the teaching and learning of history.

Learn how to really use an IWB in your history classroom. How? By getting up, having a go and making resources.

IWBs allow classes to become dynamic, interactive learning experiences. The myriad elements brought together in this one tool makes it ideal for teaching history, information literacy and for collaborative learning. Annotations, comments, diagrams, capturing, printing, saving, storing, accessing, colour, highlighting, concept mapping, resources, recording, quizzes, video and learning styles will be explored.

Examples will be given using SMART Notebook and Easiteach software. Teachers should bring their own laptops with the IWB software they use at school loaded on to their laptops

PROGRAM
8.30–9.00
Registration

9.00–10.00
IWB Basics 101
Skills covered
• Calibrating the boards
• Opening and saving
• Basic overview of the tool bar
• Inserting images
• Typing text
• Creating page notes
• Using the spotlight and reveal tools
• Working with text
• Working with pages
• Presentation tools

10.00–11.00
Curriculum Resources
Looking at the units of work in groups and collecting resources from IWB sites and Web 2.0 . We will also look at tagging web resources using delicious for units throughout the school.
Skills covered
• Signing up for delicious
• Searching for resources
• Using flickr and Web 2.0 resources
• Modifying files using skills from Session One

11.00–11.30
Morning Tea

11.30–12.30
Looking at IWB use in the History Classroom
Topics covered
• What whole, part, whole classroom practice looks like
• Whole class modelling examples for history
• Part or small group activities and resources for history
• Reflection time activities and resources for history
• Getting students to create their own resources with IWB software

12.30–1.30
Lunch

1.30–3.30
Creating resources using IWB Software
Topics covered
• Interaction skills
• What makes a good flipchart
• Looking at examples of effective lessons
• Lesson evaluation
• Creating flipcharts
• Hands-on use of IWB
• Working in teams to create resources

Each group to present a file they have created.

About the Presenter
Jess McCulloch, Coburg Senior High School
On a quest a few years ago to make her lessons more innovative, interactive and interesting, Jess went to her Principal, at Hawkesdale P–12 College in Western Victoria, and asked for this new ‘thing’ she’d heard of and she really wanted to try – an Interactive Whiteboard. Luckily enough she was able to access one and she spent the next two years using it in her LOTE Chinese classes to assist the students be more active in classes, to complete more independent tasks and to create resources for each other. She also combined the use of other technologies, such as mobile phones, with the whiteboard. During this time she created the Seven Wonders of the Whiteboard Challenge (http://whiteboardchallenge.wikispaces.com) and contributed a short case study to Chris Betcher and Mal Lee’s book The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution. In 2009, Jess moved back to Melbourne to teach History and Politics at Coburg Senior High School. She is currently on maternity leave, running a few ICT/IWB workshops in her spare time.