Benefits of interactive whiteboards

1) They are many teachers who are technophobic and can't use new technologies comfortably. For such type of teachers, interactive whiteboards won't be a fear factor as they look just like traditional whiteboards.


2) Electronic whiteboards can be used as an effective mode of delivery of lessons and hence they can be used as a powerful e-learning tool when used with internet technologies like wikis, blogs, articles, RSS feeds, podcasts, online content sharing tools etc.


3) A Digital interactive whiteboard does what it is supposed to do, that is to provide interactivity by allowing teachers to integrate all type of medias into there lessons.


4) Through whiteboard lessons, learners can absorb teaching much more easily and can also retain them.


5) If you want to spread your resources on a large scale then you should integrate the digital whiteboard completely with a virtual learning environment.






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The interactive whiteboard is connected via 'universal serial bus'to a computer system in a wired environment.Through USB peripherals can be connected to a computer system through a single socket without rebooting the computer and without the need to install device drivers. An interactive whiteboard can also be connected to a computer through a serial port cable.In case of wireless environment, bluetooth technology can be used to connect whiteboards to computers.



To let the whiteboard interact with the hardware of the computer system, a software driver is installed.To activate the whiteboard, simply turn on the computer. As the computer will turn on, the device driver will automatically start. Through these interactive whiteboards, students can be motivated and sales presentations can be energised.


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