[Offtopic] Choice of Electronic Whiteboard

[Diane Peat]

Sorry; I should also have said - if you only have one or two boards in the
school, people can't schedule their classes well enough to get sufficient
benefit from the board. They need to be in the room with the board for the
very great majority of their classes, so that their entire syllabus can be
written around it rather than just the odd class or two each cycle. Having a
larger number of boards means that staff (who do move from room to room all
day) have access to the boards in any teaching area. I'm not sure how they
run with Macs; we are a PC school.

I must also stress that they won't make a poor teacher good but we have
found them to help teachers create visually stimulating lessons that
maintain student interest and stimulate good questioning.

My two cents worth.

Diane Peat
Firbank Grammar School
BRIGHTON
Telephone  9591 5188






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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au]On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
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Completely agree with the critical mass argument.
While school continue to make teachers "itinerant" workers in their own
schools, we will never get the same quality embedding of
technology that is achieved in some primary school classrooms and overseas
(where in many places e.g. US the teachers OWNS a room
and knows the resources in it intimately).

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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 3:02 PM
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We went with Smartboard as they supported all of WIN/MAC/LIN OS's.
Although at the moment I am having some lag issues with my Linux laptop
- but I haven't had time to chase it up properly yet.
We liked that you can use your finger if you lose the pens (no special pens
required), and write on them with a regular marker
(although we aren't encouraging that at the moment).
The biggest factor for us was less the brand, but getting a "critical mass"
of them in so that teachers knew they would have regular
access to them - hence they bothered to learn a bit about them. We had one
Promethean in prior to that - as people had to room
change or had limited access, we couldn't be bothered learning to use it.
Placement and numbers is just as important as the brand. We bought 10 and
will do so again shortly. We made sure each faculty had
access to 2 and when Science was refurbished, 3 out of 4 rooms had one
installed.
Cheers
cameron
Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>    About 18 months ago we had a discussion about the merits of Electronic
Whiteboards.
>
> At my school, the decision has been made to purchase 4 of these. The only
issue is which brand to go with.
>
> Here is the email from a colleague :
>
> "As we are going to trial electronic whiteboards I would like some
> opinions on the pros and cons of the Promethean, mimio, smartboard and
teamboard. Which should we go with? "
>
>  Could I ask those out there with experience in the use of any of these
whiteboards to make their recommendations please ?
>
> Best Wishes
>
>
>
> Kevork Krozian
> IT Manager , Forest Hill College
> k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
> http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
> Mobile: 0419 356 034
>
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