Hello everyone! Today I wanted to address interactive whiteboard and the program ActivInspire. These interactive whiteboards, or Smartboards or Promethean Boards are such a fun resource for the classroom. They leave traditional pencil and paper activites of the past behind and allow students to physically engage in a way they never could before. They involve the students in learning by allowing them to use different senses such as touching and hearing. I believe they allow teachers to save time by printing less and wasting less materials that can be found on the interactive whiteboard.
The program we have just recently been introduced to, ActivInspire, is such a fantastic tool to bring to the classroom. It allows teachers to bring real world experiences into the classroom, enhancing learning. This would definitely appeal to my kinesthetic learners who constantly feel the need to physically do the activity.
As a teacher, I have so many options of how to present information with ActivInspire. I feel like I will be producing well-rounded students who will hvae the capacity to work colloboratively and solve all kinds of different types of problems and scenarios based on their interactive learning. Overall, I really like the idea of using this helpful program, and can even see myself really enjoying putting the material together in a way that would meet the needs of a wide range of students.
