A page listing various articles on SMART Boards and interactive whiteboards in general.
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Articles that require a Michener login and articles feeds specifically set up for the Michener community.
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The iCampus Technology-Enabled Active Learning Project at MIT (Volume 5, Issue 4, April/May 2009)- In this interview with Innovate Editor-in-Chief James L. Morrison, Phillip Long describes some of the outcomes of iCampus, a recently concluded seven-year, $25 million research collaboration between MIT and Microsoft Research that focused on building technologies that enabled more effective learning. Long describes two of the many projects arising from this effort: Technology Enhanced Active Learning in Physics (TEAL), which has completely reconfigured the way MIT teaches introductory physics in order to encourage student engagement, and iLabs, which has created a way for MIT instructors to put real laboratory experiences—not virtual simulations but actual experiments running in real time—online so that students can experience them remotely. (You must create a free account to access Innovate Journal Online. It’s worth the time – exceptional resource!)
Using Mimio BoardCast to Demonstrate Graphs (Feb/March 2005)- Nikki McIntyre Finlay describes her use of mimio boardCast, a digitized whiteboard system with audio, in both versions of her Principles of Macroeconomics course (online and on-campus). Students can see the graphing process and hear the accompanying lecture in a format that requires relatively low bandwidth and is accessible even on older computers. Finlay provides a sample whiteboard lecture, strategies for creating effective boardCast presentations, and student comments on the effectiveness of such presentations. (You must create a free account to access Innovate Journal Online)
Interactive Whiteboards, Pedagogy, and Pupil Performance: An Evaluation of the Schools Whiteboard Expansion (SWE) Project (pdf) – Research report of IWB use in the UK. Focus is on secondary education, but findings regarding pedagogy and performance may be applicable to other eduational contexts. Excerpt: “[I]t is possible to approach pace, multimodality and interactivity with either a surface or deep understanding of what they contribute to pedagogy. A surface approach rests at the level of the technical or physical attributes of the technology. From this perspective, making pedagogy interactive means using particular features of the IWB such as drop and drag, or moving between multiple screens during lesson time. A deep approach embeds the use of the technology more specifically in a broader pedagogic aim. This means assessing more precisely how particular features of the IWB can achieve a wider pedagogic purpose which is itself centred on increasing pupil understanding of key aspects of relevant subject knowledge . . .”
