Seven Wonders of the Whiteboard Challenge
Are you new to using an interactive whiteboard (IWB)? Have you used one for ages but want some other ideas? Are you using an IWB regularly but know you could use it better? Then you are invited to join the Whiteboard Challenge!
Whiteboard Challenge Wiki
The aim of this challenge:
To improve the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom and to stimulate more discussion about how they can best be used.
What the challenge involves:
This Interactive Whiteboard Challenge will run for 7 weeks initially, starting on Monday August 11th. Each week there will be a new task set by someone who is an experienced whiteboard user. They will present their challenge in whatever way they like - it might be a short video, a screen cast a podcast. You then need to go and use whatever they have presented in your classroom that week. Record your efforts and write a blog post about how you went. At the end of the challenge you will have 7 blog posts about your whiteboard practice, and lots of other blog posts on similar topics available to you to read. Title your blog post 'Whiteboard Challenge Week 1' etc or something very similar so it is easy for others to identify your post.
For more info and to sign up go to the Whiteboard Challenge Wiki
Whiteboard Challenge Wiki
The aim of this challenge:
To improve the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom and to stimulate more discussion about how they can best be used.
What the challenge involves:
This Interactive Whiteboard Challenge will run for 7 weeks initially, starting on Monday August 11th. Each week there will be a new task set by someone who is an experienced whiteboard user. They will present their challenge in whatever way they like - it might be a short video, a screen cast a podcast. You then need to go and use whatever they have presented in your classroom that week. Record your efforts and write a blog post about how you went. At the end of the challenge you will have 7 blog posts about your whiteboard practice, and lots of other blog posts on similar topics available to you to read. Title your blog post 'Whiteboard Challenge Week 1' etc or something very similar so it is easy for others to identify your post.
For more info and to sign up go to the Whiteboard Challenge Wiki
Tags: challenge, interactivewhiteboards, iwb, smartboard, wikis
4 Comments
-
Comment by Jess McCulloch on August 6, 2008 at 4:51am -
Hi Kim,
It's not just for language teachers, so please all are welcome!
-
Comment by robynlesleyfox on August 30, 2008 at 3:55pm -
Hi Jess,
My friend and colleague told me about this amazing lote teacher Jess. I would like to take up your IWB challenge.
-
Comment by Jason de Nys on September 1, 2008 at 11:32pm -
Hi, I have made a button using Sproutbuilder that you can copy to put on your blog or wiki to help promote this fabulous idea
Add a Comment
You need to be a member of Classroom 2.0 to add comments!
About Classroom 2.0
Steve Hargadon
created this social network on Ning.
Visitor Map
Free Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshops in the U.S.
Check out our series of free live workshops around the United States on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in education. Coming up: Chicago, New York, Maui, Sacramento, and Boston. More details and information here.
More Information
Need help using Ning in an educational setting?
Ning announces trial program for grades 7 -12 student networks--now ad-free:
Finding Interesting Discussions:
Forum posts can be organized by the use of "tags." To see discussions on specific topics, click on the links below. Standardized tags you can use to have your posts included in the link results are shown in parentheses. You can also help by adding tags to others' posts. (To participate in the discussion on standardized tagging here at Classroom 2.0, see this page.)
By Tool:
- Blogging ("blogging")
- Calendars ("calendars")
- Collaborative Documents ("documents")
- Collaborative Idea Maps ("ideamaps")
- Collaborative Spreadsheets ("spreadsheets")
- Course Management ("cms")
- Gaming ("gaming")
- Google Earth ("gearth")
- Interactive Boards ("iboards")
- Instant Messaging ("im")
- Internet Telephony ("telephony")
- Mapping ("maps")
- Microblogging ("microblogging")
- Online Meetings ("meetings")
- Photo Sharing ("photos")
- Podcasting ("podcasting")
- Presentation ("presentation")
- RSS & Readers ("rss")
- Screencasting ("screencasting")
- Social Bookmarking ("bookmarking")
- Social Networking ("socialnetworking")
- Social Notetaking ("socialnotes")
- Start Pages ("startpages")
- Video Conferencing ("videoconferencing")
- Video Sharing ("video")
- Virtual Worlds ("virtualworlds")
- Webmail ("webmail")
- Wikis ("wikis")
- Art ("art")
- Biliteracy-Bilingual Education ("bilingual")
- Biology ("biology")
- Chemistry ("chemistry")
- English ("english")
- English as a Foreign Language ("efl")
- English as a Second Language ("esl")
- Foreign Languages ("fl")
- Geography ("geography")
- History ("history")
- Math ("math")
- Music ("music")
- Physical Education ("pe")
- Religion ("religion")
- Science ("science")
- Social Studies ("socialstudies")
- Acceptable Use Policies ("aup")
- Administration ("administration")
- Assessment ("assessment")
- Collaboration Opportunities ("collaboration")
- Computer Labs ("labs")
- Cyberbullying ("bullying")
- Elementary ("elementary")
- Gifted ("gifted")
- Inter-Classroom Collaboration ("inter-classroom")
- Internet Safety ("safety")
- Middle or Junior High ("middle")
- Online Education ("online")
- Open Source Software ("oss")
- Parents ("parents")
- Philosophy / Pedagogy ("pedagogy")
- Pre-K ("prek")
- Professional Development ("pd")
- Secondary or High School ("secondary")
- Software & Service Reviews ("reviews")
- Special Needs ("specialneeds")
Translate This Network
Click on flag to open new window in your language. For different language close window and repeat. Signing in reverts site to English. Code at Translated.
Latest Activity
6 minutes ago
6 minutes ago
12 minutes ago 
21 minutes ago © 2008 Created by Steve Hargadon on Ning. Create your own social network
This challenge sounds like just the thing for me and perhaps some of my school colleagues. The only thing is that we are not Language teachers - do you think we could still participate?
Hope to hear from you soon :)
Kim Pericles