Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / April 2007

On 28 Apr, 09:22, emailkg...@gmail.com wrote:

Yes.  We have them in virtually all classrooms. Waste of money.  Every
time I try to write on the thing with the digital pens I have to
recalibrate it.  I once did a cut up and rearrange activity, using
drag and drop to shift sentences round, which worked in a half hearted
sort of way, but it wasn't anything you couldn't do in another way.
Projecting a giant desktop and leaping about clicking icons with your
fingers is kinda fun, but then again, unless you get one of the mega
expensive boards with back projection your own shadow stops you from
being able to see what you're doing.

OTOH, bench PC with Word and an internet connection in every room,
data projector, conventional screen, that's something I now absolutely
rely on.  And a lot cheaper.

Have you thought of investing in a spell checker?
DC

On 28 Apr, 09:22, emailkg...@gmail.com wrote:

PS Why?  Our students don't think the whiteboards per se are any big
deal.  Being able to bring up Google images to reveal a picture of
some concrete noun object (last week it was rhubarb) or use online
dictionaries with classes is brilliant, but none of this depends on
shelling out for the interactive whiteboard.  When I've got students
up to use the things they don't like them.  And God forbid what
happens if some prat writes on one of them with a conventional, ink-
based board marker.
DC