[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: OT Interactive whiteboard

[Russell Edwards]

Our school has one. It just gets used as a glorified data projection  
screen. Being used that way, all it offers is the disadvantages of  
clicks not registering where they're supposed to (calibration always  
drifts), and teachers being blinded by the projector. (Supposedly this  
is actually a serious OHS risk of these devices. In my opinion they  
should switch to back-projection.)   I suppose if you had good IWB  
software resources and a well-behaved group of students, it could be  
quite innovative but that's not what I've seen at my school.

Personally I'd rather have one of those whiteboards from the 90s where  
you can print out what you've drawn with ordinary pens, but altered to  
supply digital image files via bluetooth or on the LAN-- I often take  
photos of the board with my Mac but it's a bit inconvenient that way.

Russell Edwards
Whittlesea Secondary College




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