Getting the Most Out of Interactive Whiteboards

TeachersFirst Session Demonstrates Best Practices

RESTON, Va., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Interactive whiteboards ("IWBs") are among the most popular technology tools in education, but many teachers have not had the resources to learn to use them well. TeachersFirst.com will help teachers find out how to make better use of IWBs in its next OK2Ask online professional development session, "Whiteboards and the Web: Strategies for student-centered learning."

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The session will be live online at 3:00-4:15 pm EDT and 6:00-7:15 pm EDT on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. It's the latest in the OK2Ask series from nonprofit TeachersFirst.com, one of the web's leading sites for teachers. At no charge, TeachersFirst provides thousands of professionally reviewed resources used in K-12 classrooms in more than fifty countries.

Whiteboards bring exciting capabilities to the classroom. In front of a class, students and teachers draw, rearrange, and manipulate words, images, and other content on-screen as if they were sitting alone in front of a computer. At their best, whiteboards stimulate collaborative, student-centered learning, and the OK2Ask session will give teachers the resources to make optimum use of the technology.

Among the subjects to be covered are the pros and cons of IWB use, leveraging their strengths, web-based tools and resources that are appropriate for IWBs, and lesson formats and management strategies that encourage maximum engagement and learning for all students.

The TeachersFirst OK2Ask sessions provide a popular forum for teachers to learn about technology use in a practical, collaborative, and interactive format. An FAQ about OK2Ask is available at http://www.teachersfirst.com/ok2ask.cfm.

Registration information and other details about the whiteboards session are at http://bit.ly/9u912c. Because attendance at the "live" sessions is limited, teachers unable to participate live are welcome to view recorded versions of the sessions, available at http://teachersfirst.wikispaces.com/OK2AskPAST a couple of days after the conclusion of each live event.

TeachersFirst (www.TeachersFirst.com) is a service of The Source for Learning (www.SourceForLearning.org), a not-for-profit corporation providing enhanced learning through technology. The Source for Learning is a member of ISTE 100, and is the creator of www.PreschoolFirst.com, www.TeachersAndFamilies.com, and www.GrowUpLearning.com, a new service for the families of children from birth to 66 months.

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