[Offtopic] Choice of Electronic Whiteboard

[Cameron Bell]

I forgot to mention the one slip we have just rectified, we only 
installed the software on teachers laptops. OOPS
We are now installing the software on the student laptop image so that 
*the students* can create material for them.
(How embarrassing)
You may want to think of that with regard to the software licensing of 
any IWB you purchase.
Cameron

Diane Peat wrote:
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au]On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
> Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 4:54 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Offtopic] Choice of Electronic Whiteboard
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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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
> Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 3:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Choice of Electronic Whiteboard
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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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