Group work and other suggestions

[Sarah Carpenter]

How about ....

:) planning for your board to be used by small groups of children independently during group activity parts of lessons.

:) Using the screen recorder to record modelling of how to solve a maths problem and then showing the video again as needed - could do the same to model letter formation.

:) For Early years children - allowing them to practise large scale hand control movements by drawing letters and shapes on the board.

:) Children using the sound recorder to add narration to stories presented on the whiteboard.

Love this idea by the way - should be very useful. [clap]

Sarah +wave+

[simongreen]

:) planning for your board to be used by small groups of children independently during group activity parts of lessons.

GROUPWORK
I really like this idea of getting students up an working at the board in groups..

I was hoping people could share their ideas on how this works in practice..
How do you organise and do groupwork with an interactive whiteboard?
As usual, all ideas appreciated...
Simon

[Sarah Carpenter]

In maths I often plan for children to use the whiteboard to reinforce an objective/activity I may have been teaching via a prepared flipchart - I do this by allowing them to teach each other using the methods and tools that I have used during my lesson input. It works particularly well in maths with the children using resources from the library such as money, blocks and shapes. The children add their pages to my flipchart and their work is often shared during plenary.

The whiteboard is also often a popular drawing 'media' if children are drawing pictures etc. and given a choice of tools to use. They love the huge scale of drawing on the board. [clap]

[caryn]

As a treat I will often let a group of children design a game of snakes and ladders using the resources. We then play "their " game as a whole class activity.