This week I was invited for the second time to speak on the Teachnet podcast station and the topic was Interactive Whiteboards. I’m fairly happy with what I had to say although I failed to mention many of the options by name except for Promethean and Smart. I mentioned eBeam too. However, I regret that I didn’t get to mention my favourite IWBs, which are less well known but excellent products. I was happy that I made the point about not spending more than €2,500 on an IWB. It’s crazy the number of teachers who are spending double that for little reason. I thought the other two speakers spoke very well and they certainly got across the point that IWBs have transformed their teaching and their classrooms generally.
Podcast Show Notes: Access Undone Ep 1
If you were to walk into any primary school and compared it to the classroom you might have sat in only a generation ago, apart