weeks with IWB...

I can say it was an interesting experience exploring the smartboard features to make as teaching aids. The most important thing is it is interactive one where students can experience the learning process by themselves. It is important as according to Vygotsky theory of interaction, the children will acquire knowledge through interaction with the environment. This what smartboard software offered. In addition, for writing exercise, the students can try it on the board itself and correct themselves by clicking on the board to get the correct answer. Besides, using the board, the teacher and the students will not worry anymore about bad handwriting the students encounter. The board can help them to modify it. Isn’t interesting? There are soooo many other interesting things that you can discover through IWB(interactive white board). What we need just some time to explore or getting some courses on the use of IWB.
For me, the experience using IWB will help to design appealing activities for students. As a teacher, we maybe encounter problems to do physical activities in the class, so, as the alternatives so that the students will not feel boring, IWB is the solution. Using IWB, students will appeal to the animated cartoon, the games, videos that can be stored on the board. For academic learning, the students also will learn and have fun on the interactive video on science,maths , history and etc.

there are lots of other things that i can do with this IWB software. However, i also have to make sure the effectiveness and usefulness of preparing this materials to my students. there are may aspect that i need to consider in order to ensure the effectiveness of the use of IWB in my class and i should ask myself questions like:

1. How do I adopt this material for my teaching?
2.How do I adapt (modify) this material to meet the needs of my students and their learning styles? 4. How do I create my own lessons or materials based on the sample and make it more creative and innovative to attract my students?

After that, i can start to collect materials like pictures (animated pictures would be best), videos and decide on what to teach after find out the target group that i going to teach. when, planning on the activity, i should be able to go level by level so that the students will be able to learn meaningfully and can follow the lesson. the other factor such as font, pictures and colour of the presentation should be considered by me because it can help to attract the pupils to engage in the activity. the font should be large enough for them to see as children can hardly see small things and it will effect their attention span and unluckly it would demotivated them to pay attention. besides, the colour also should be attractive and children prefer bright colour as it is eye-catching. in addition animated pictures and interactive activity will motivate them to learn as it is fun and the students will love to have an experience with the IWB.