Interactive Whiteboards have me thinking about the interfaces we use to connect to our computers. There are lots of new ways on the horizon, many of which will please kinesthetic learners.
Posts Tagged as ‘wiimote’
May 13, 2009
Random Choices from my Interactive Whiteboard
I used an editable, flash-based slot machine on an interactive whiteboard to choose students for roleplay activities.
March 31, 2009
Interactive Whiteboard FAQ (Wii)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Wiimote-based $50 Interactive Whiteboard.
March 5, 2009
Simplification now includes Photoshop
Most users of most technologies don’t need every possible feature. And, increasingly, they are choosing to not pay a premium for them. Online photo editors now include layers, masking, and plenty of effects. Most are free and work as simply as attaching a photo to your email message.
January 29, 2009
Zoom It with Sys Internals
ZoomIt gives you the ability to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around, and write on the screen. Could be useful with Wii-based interactive whiteboards.
November 3, 2008
More Interactive Whiteboards, Please
Ivan and I presented the $50 Interactive Whiteboard to a standing-room-only audience of other teachers of English to speakers of other languages at Ohio TESOL this weekend. Not only have I now distributed all five from my original Ohio TESOL grant, but I’ve also got over a dozen people signed up for test drives. Looks [...]
October 24, 2008
How do I know my IR LED works?
Look at it through your cell phone’s camera. What a great tip! 8 more can be found at Wiimote Project.com. I’m a little bit behind the curve on some of this stuff, but they’ve got great info on building IR pens for Wiimote interactive whiteboards and building them right.
Next week, Ivan and I present our [...]
October 15, 2008
Ivan’s Insight
I put another $50 interactive whiteboard in another teacher’s hands recently. Ivan primarily teaches in the ESL composition program at Ohio State. After doing the mandatory “hi” in MS Paint, Ivan began asking some really interesting questions. He wants to be able to interact with longer texts. For example, he would [...]
October 10, 2008
Successful Deployment of Interactive Whiteboard
I got a chance to use the $50 Interactive Whiteboard in class today and it worked … eventually. I won’t say there weren’t challenges, but most of them were due to the fact that I had just downloaded everything to my Macbook this morning and wasn’t really comfortable with the setup. It seems [...]
