| Here is a look at some of the simple methods you can | | | | also highlight other important information so that |
| use as a teacher to ensure the resources you use | | | | students instantly realize what is most important out of |
| along with your interactive whiteboards are interesting | | | | the lesson that you are teaching. |
| and effective. | | | | Testing the readability of the text in your classroom is |
| First, to ensure that you make the most of the | | | | essential as well. You may have done a lot of work |
| interactive whiteboard resources that you are using, | | | | gathering up interactive whiteboard resources for your |
| make sure that you never use too much text. If you | | | | lessons, but if no one is able to read them, you have a |
| use huge blocks of text on the whiteboard, you | | | | problem. Experiment before class. Ensure that text is |
| basically are doing nothing more than turning it into an | | | | large enough and easy to read so that even those in |
| overhead projector. The key is to take text and make | | | | the back of the class will have no problem. If students |
| it interesting and applicable to your class. Ensure that | | | | are not able to easily read what is on the screen, you |
| you only put up small amounts of text at once. This | | | | will lose their attention quickly and they will not grasp |
| way you don't overload the brain of your students. | | | | the concepts being presented to them. |
| Huge amounts of text instantly look boring, so keep | | | | Keeping the learning objectives in mind when teaching |
| the amount of text to a minimum at any one time. | | | | a lesson is important. Sometimes it is easy to get |
| Another method you can use with all the great | | | | carried away with all the interactive whiteboard |
| resources you find is color. Exploiting color on the | | | | resources that you want to use and you forget what |
| interactive whiteboards can really make your lessons | | | | the main goals and objectives are for the pupils and |
| more exciting and it is simple to do. While you don't | | | | their learning. Not only should you remember them |
| want to go overboard with color, colors can be used | | | | yourself, but it's a good idea to put up the objectives |
| to enhance your materials. For example, consider | | | | on the whiteboard when students arrive so they |
| having keywords or vocabulary words highlighted in a | | | | immediately know what the focus of the class is going |
| certain color so they pop out from the page. You can | | | | to be, it's all part of good teaching practice anyway! |