[Year 12 IPM] RE: Interactive Electronic white boards

[Bricks J. Winzer]

> I am requesting information on interactive electronic whiteboards:
> 
>       teachers opinions and experiences in the classroom
>       schools that have implemented them and how many
>       best brands
>       costings

When I was at Lauriston, a couple of rooms (the labs, seminar room - all 
located in the library) had Teamboards.  Plug in the USB cable, calibrate 
the board through the toolbar software, away you go.

I found it great for navigating around Windows, touch the menu buttons on 
screen and away you go.

The notebook I had was a tablet and we even tried interfacing the Teamboard 
with the tablet's handwriting functions (e.g. in OneNote).  This was quite 
interesting but I personally didn't use OneNote.  It would be more 
beneficial to teachers who are used to writing out notes on the board; for 
me, I just use a projector to type out the same notes.  (Most IT teachers 
type faster than they hand-write... don't they?)

So yeah, I got the best use from the quirkiest feature, touch-navigation.

B.J.