Interactive Whiteboards – Ideas and Tips

If there is glare from outside, make the background darker and the text a colour that stands out

Warn the children not to look directly into the projector beam

Get a wireless keyboard and mouse. You can be much more creative and interactive if you are mobile

Search for images to make your teaching more visual. Add the word 'animation' or 'flash' to your search to get moving images

Deconstruct text. Jumble up sentences, move words around, hide parts of text. Be imaginative

Rotate and stretch images to develop vocabulary. For example, when writing reports after a school trip or discussing movement in PE

Scan and project a book if it's too small for the whole class to see it

Use a digital microscope.

Use the screen-capture function. For example, to record children's jottings at the IWB for future discussions

Hyperlink images to websites you want to use, to avoid using clumsy URLs

Draw over text/pictures/answers to questions with a pen that's the same colour as the background, then use the rubber to reveal the objects. Magic!

Step back from the control and let the kids have a go