Interactive whiteboards and flipcharts

Although I haven't had any experience I leaned a lot over the past few classes on how to create interactive flipcharts. I also learned that promethean planet is a resource open for teacher to use that has cool interactive activities and downloadable flipcharts for different classroom lessons. I really liked searching around on the promethean planet website and seeing all the cool things that I could download for free! I learned that there is different modes in Activinspire like authoring mode and at the board, which contain different tools that I can use. I also learned how to change the background, and how to use special interactive tools that I downloaded from the website.

Before working with Activinspire and IWB in this classroom I have had no prior experience of working with this equipment. We never used whiteboards in our school, because our teachers hated them because they constantly shut down and so they did take away a lot of time in the classroom. The second high school I attended wanted nothing to do with them so they did not put them in our school. So I've never really seen one being used properly. So it was really exciting to be able to see that we were going to learn how to use them for my future classroom.


I think that this lesson about using IWB and Activinspire is critical for my future classroom, because more and more technology is being integrated in the classroom through IWBs. I will use the board to put up important information such as which standards that we are covering in class, and also important dates that students should know that are arriving soon. I will also use the board to teach musicology and show important technique videos.