Interactive+Whiteboards

=Promethean Interactive White Boards=

The DTC lab has two Promethean Boards. One is connected to a Mac computer and one to a PC. It is important to help your students become multi-platform proficient so they will be ready for either format as they enter their new classrooms.

The boards should be ready to go and attached to Internet ready computers. There are also connectors if you choose to connect to your own laptop.

Having the correct software is important. Promethean provides a notebook software free to anyone using their boards. It is a great exercise to have students download and prepare a lesson using the Interactive software and board. This makes it much more likely that they will use it in their future classrooms. Even if they encounter a Smartboard product they will be fine as these products work in a very similar manner.

ActivInspire
Make your classroom and ActivClassroom with Promethean’s next generation of teaching and learning software designed to work across a range of interactive whiteboards. ActivInspire is the foundation for any 21st century learning experience. Designed for use in the classroom, it enables teachers to lead the lesson on an interactive whiteboard. Create new lessons filled with rich, powerful activities, and support Assessment for Learning tasks with students, groups and the whole class. With a choice of age appropriate interfaces, ActivInspire gives teachers the ability to access a wealth of teaching activities, tools, images, sounds and templates, with a world of additional resources available on Promethean Planet. Now with advanced pen and touch capability, ActivInspire lets teachers and students go beyond the flipchart and interact with the page by engaging with real world tools.


 * **[|Download ActivInspire] Personal Edition** - Free of charge download*.
 * [|ActivInspire User Guide] (3327kb pdf)
 * [|ActivInspire in the ActivClassroom] (6724kb pdf)
 * [|ActivInspire Quick Start Guide] (6321kb pdf)
 * ====[|ActivTips] Very helpful video tutorials on how to get the most from your interactive whiteboard====
 * ====[|Professional Development]====