Week 11

Activity 11.3 - B: Using IWBs

Two ways that I thought of incorporating IWB to the lesson provided were:

Have the word map saved to the IWB and it can be left up throughout the class so that any student can add to it at any time  by the end of the unit it’s still all there. This helps because you have one big collaborative map for the whole class. I have had teachers do it where each student does it themselves but by the end it is hard to collaborate with everyone because everyone’s is different, here you work together towards final piece of work. This supports group learning and gives the students a sense of control over their own learning as they are responsible for adding to the map. Depending on the class it could be disorganized looking, abstract or it could take on an organized or grouped form. This could give the teacher an idea on class dynamics and the way the class as a whole learns. Students can add words or pictures could even draw an illustration, it opens up possibilities, it doesn’t have to be just words.

You could also use the IWB with the scrapbooks. The students would have interactive scrapbooks so it would be easier to add things they have created to it with less hassle and mess, also they have more diversity in what they could add. They could add a video of their Readers Theatre presentation as well as connected myths, pictures, and anything else they wanted to add, it doesn’t have to be just paper pieces like a regular scrapbook would entail. You could also have all scrapbooks available so that students at any time can go up to the IWB and open a scrapbook for reference or continued learning or even feedback. Again this promotes collaborative learning; if each student is assigned a god/goddess they could teach the rest of the students about their particular god instead of each student having to learn each one by themselves. It also supports continual learning; it helps students to see their progress every day, not just project by project, they get to see the unit as a whole. Also the IWB allows to students to be creative, the scrapbooks could take on many forms like mind maps or presentations like Prezi’s or Powerpoint, they could be in list form or even collage form.