IWB features

In case you missed posts on IWB-use by Nik Peachy (we pass on his blogposts at his Quick Shout pages here at the CALL-in-Practice site) have a look at this selection.

Starting with Image Based Speaking activities that can be used either on an IWB or computer screen to get students talking and stimulate their descriptive vocabulary.

And suggestions for Combining Online Interactive Whiteboards with Voice applications and this one on Scriblink which includes VOIP, text chat and provides users with link to their online board. Or on Dabbleboard, a fantastic whiteboard application which runs in your browser. It has all the usual whiteboard features plus some nice extras.

Nik mentions several advantages of IWB use and in this respect points to very practical positive aspects: [...]'They save the need to: Carry flashcards, blu tack, envelopes full of cut up paper, videos, photocopies, coursebooks, DVD and CD players, multiple coloured board pens, replacements for the board pens incase they dry up, a TV, a Tape recorder etc.'

And to conclude for now a post on using PicLens on IWBs

Invited by the ICT-coordinator of the LanguageCenter of Tilburg University I recently did a presentation on IWBs for the centre's team. A number of boards will be installed there shortly and the session therefore was meant as a warming-up session to present some features and their application specifically for language teaching.
I was pleased to hear that the implementation plan also involves further professional development. After all, as I also concluded  in my metastudy of research literature (Koenraad, 2008) on added value and effects of digiboard use, qualitative good training, closely related to the subject being taught, is of vital importance to enhance chances to create and optimalise added value of IWB use. Check out the pdf-version on SlideShare .

Remarkable development in the IWB-market.  No special boards needed anymore to create interactive surfaces. Read more here

Thanks to Rich White on Twitter