Have you ever wanted to zoom around a world map, making a few annotations as you go to show your students what’s important? Or would you like to have your students make the annotations to show you what they know? It’s easy to create a quick map of any location in the world and add your own touches at http://www.quikmaps.com/.
Add comment Posted in maps February 7, 2010
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During 2010-2011, we’ll replace some of our aging SMART Boards. Here are short video clips about one possible replacement — the Promethean ActivBoard, demonstrated at Pike on January 20, 2010, by Gayle Razzaboni from CBE Technologies. |
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The ActivBoard is not touch-sensitive, so (unlike the SMART Board) it does not respond to your fingers. Instead, you use a pen to write on the board. This scheme has the advantage that when you or your students touch the board accidentally, annotations you’ve made do not disappear. In addition, the pen allows you to create lines and annotations that are thinner and more precise than you can do with your fingers. The scheme has the disadvantage, of course, of requiring a pen for writing. (The board detects the pen through an internal electromagnetic mesh.)
You must be careful not to write on the board with regular dry erase markers.
2 comments Posted in interactive whiteboards January 22, 2010
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