Sunday, October 18, 2009

TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATIONAL FIELD




The Interactive Whiteboards are the smart boards that are popularly being used today. These smart boards are finding their utility everywhere ranging from a teaching field to the training and demonstration field. These presentation boards provide interaction with other technologies, so they are used for multipurpose requirements. These boards have interfaces to attach to computers, laptops, screen projectors and many other devises. These portable smart boards are not simple boards but the boards carrying features of today's rapidly growing world.

These smart whiteboards offer great benefits to every age group and for people of varied fields. In educational field for example, teachers use this smart board technology to enhance students creativity together with their attention to be more intrested during teaching and learning process. Teachers may let the students to try some activities on it and let them try their ownself to explore the use of smart board. The boards have an attractive look to entice kids to enjoy their studies. Not only this, but these boards also provide easy readability to the students as they have a base of white color, which is the most suitable to our eyes and this color has its own brightness which helps release the stress on eyes.

The smart board is compatible for making connections with slide and projector technology and the computer interactive technology. If it is used in schools or colleges then it expunges the need to go to other places for giving demonstrations. It also increases students' interest in learning. Through this way a teacher can address large number of students with a single whiteboard, which otherwise would have been very difficult with a single computer or laptop.

One of the great features of these Interactive Whiteboards is that these allow the data on board to be saved on computer hard disk. Is it not a great feature? This way the classroom tutorials can be saved and be redisplayed when required. This feature can also be very useful for business meeting purposes where slides are displayed on whiteboards and record of meetings are to be made.

The Interactive Whiteboards due to their multiuse features are finding use in many fields. Today these smart boards are being used for delivering presentations, video conferencing, training, e learning, demonstrations and still many more. Their video conferencing feature has offered a great advantage; the computer or laptop display can be transferred to the white board, so the small conferencing equipments can be made to suffice the need of large equipments.

With the training application of Interactive Whiteboards, the trainers can very interactively teach their trainees, which otherwise through simple computers or laptops might have been very difficult to substantiate. Their feature of delivering presentations is remarkable. Due to this feature of Interactive Whiteboards, these are ubiquitous whether it is seminar halls, presentation and speech rooms, and product demonstration halls, coaching institutes and even in shows, parties, gatherings and events.

It is omnipresence is easy to understand. It is an interface for addressing a large group of people, for example in gatherings or parties, where people are not able to see distant happenings; these smart whiteboards make their utility there by shortening the distance between them. So, the whiteboards now have become a must for companies, educational institutes, exhibition centers and demonstration halls and for many more places.

Smart board shows so many intresting features, so many advantages that can help most of the people use it...





One of the application that we have explored in ICT class

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