Interactive whiteboard links
Some of the links that I provided on the handout in the workshop I gave today on using the interactive whiteboard (IWB)...
ELT publishers are starting to produce digital versions of their coursebooks (for use with or without an IWB). Two examples:
There are numerous sites where you download things for use on the IWB:
It could be that if you doing CLIL, such things might be ideal; but, as I suggested -- believing as I do in a "materials-light" Dogme approach to language teaching -- I really have my serious doubts about such sites.
You've heard of Death by PowerPoint...? Take a materials-heavy approach to using the IWB and I think you're risking something very similar. The more materials, the more passive and bored your students will become...
What you really want is active students and a fairly inactive whiteboard!
ELT publishers are starting to produce digital versions of their coursebooks (for use with or without an IWB). Two examples:
There are numerous sites where you download things for use on the IWB:
It could be that if you doing CLIL, such things might be ideal; but, as I suggested -- believing as I do in a "materials-light" Dogme approach to language teaching -- I really have my serious doubts about such sites.
You've heard of Death by PowerPoint...? Take a materials-heavy approach to using the IWB and I think you're risking something very similar. The more materials, the more passive and bored your students will become...
What you really want is active students and a fairly inactive whiteboard!
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posted by Tom at 5:33 AM
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