5 easy ways

to use
Whiteboards
Interactively
Pen Power Image Capture Website
Take advantage of virtual pens
with their variety of colours, See an image on the Internet that Wonders
pen thicknesses and transpar- illustrates a point well? Use the Promethean
ency levels, there is so much camera tool to grab it and import Planet lets you

www.prometheanplanet.com
more they enable you to do. it to your lesson. Photographs, dia- freely share
grams, artwork, maps and charts ideas and files
can all be brought into your lesson with others.
Write over other sources, an- and shown, annotated, and marked Download, alter,
notate images and maps, high- up. take the bits
light text on webpages, calling YOU want to.
out important sentences or us- Remember
ing arrows to explain the flow Using the pen and highlighter tools,
there are re-
of an idea. Underline the verbs you can interact with images, cir-
source packs
in a sentence, circle the impor- cling key features, tracing over im-
based on topics
tant numbers in a table of data, portant sections and helping
and su bj e c t
or draw an army’s invasion deepen their understanding of key
areas too.
route on a map.

Focusing attention
The revealer blacks out a
screen and lets you reveal
it slowly to the viewers,
You can use from the top,
bottom or sides for extra
functionality.
The spotlight tool is used
to focus attention on a
particular part of an image
or specific words in a
text. It can be different
shapes.
The zoom tool is great
for zooming in on those
detailed areas, making
them much easier to see
To find out more about any of these, to get training more examples
Dragability
Interactivity is all about being able to move and drag objects about and ,
the list of things available to move is almost endless. You can utilise all
the amazing possibilities of digital media with your creativity and good
teaching. Think of all the activities we undertake with children which de-
mand items being moved-
• labelling the bones in a human skeleton,
• adding musical notes to a staff,
• sorting a collection of words into nouns and verbs,
• classifying artwork into different categories,
• assembling a parts of an image to make a complete picture,
• matching a word with its definition
• Dragging answers to the right question….
Being able to make and use drag and match activities is key to the inter-
activity of whiteboards
or ideas, talk to Alison Lydon