BRITISH CLASSROOMS

(My classroom's Smart Board)

I asked Brent whether or not he had interactive whiteboards at school and he just laughed and said they didn’t even have whiteboards! Apparently North Park is still using blackboards and chalk.

You maybe asking what is the alternative? Interactive whiteboards are fantastic. Imagine all the capacity of your computer from word processing to the internet, PowerPoint presentations to watching your favourite film. Now imagine the monitor is the size of a whiteboard and you can drag your fingers instead of a mouse to share information with others.

(the first classroom I will teach in)

What if you just wanted to write on a whiteboard? Most classes still have normal whiteboards too, normally off to the side. Fortunately, interactive whiteboards, such as this Smart Board, have software with fantastic whiteboard feature.

(Smart Board Projector)

No longer is board space a problem (because you just save the whiteboard data!). No longer are we competing for the privilege of dragging tiny televisions on massive wheeled shelves into the classrooms to watch educational DVDs and videos. This is a standard thing in England now and when I go back I will miss them.