How does this technology benefit Indian Valley Students?
     
Benefits to Students and Indian Valley Schools:
    - Students are very eager to participate in classroom instruction when learning is associated with the use of the interactive whiteboard.  They are engaged and comfortable using the technology in front of their peers and teachers, which builds social interaction skills needed for tomorrow’s leaders.

    - Teachers are able to convey challenging subject matter to students, ranging from special needs to gifted, more easily using the interactive whiteboards.

    - Instant access for the entire classroom or a small group can be provided to a favorite application, Internet site, or saved file.

    - Teachers have already reduced operational costs by using this technology to provide interactive classroom instruction as an alternative to copying worksheets for each student.  This saves copier toner, paper and time.

    - Interactive whiteboards can minimize usage of the chalk/marker board, saving on the purchase of dry erase markers and other supplies.
     
Sampling of Ways the Technology Is/Can Be Utilized:
    - Kindergarten: Students can identify and draw letters and numbers on the whiteboard.  With the InterWrite software, the display can be saved for further skill development.

    - Elementary Reading: Teachers scan in pages from stories so that students can read the stories as a class and then answer interactive questions about the reading.

    - Elementary Mathematics: The skill of telling time can be developed with pictures of clock faces projected onto the board and animated hand positions.

    - Elementary Mathematics and Science: The teacher projects interactive graph paper on the whiteboard so that students can develop data charts of various types.

    - Middle School Science: The class studies the periodic table of elements as a whole and then focuses on one element at a time.  An atomic structure diagram can be projected and then broken down into protons, electrons, etc.

    - Social Studies: The maps feature that is part of the white board software is used instead of paper maps in the classroom.  The maps can be instantly updated and supplemented with online information.

    - High School Mathematics: Students solve equations collaboratively with information formerly placed on worksheets.  More accurate displays of charts and graphs are possible.

    - English: Using the same sentence all week, classes can examine its different grammatical elements.  The students take turns labeling the sentences using the whiteboard.

    - Holocaust class: The teacher projects Holocaust photos and maps and Internet sites onto the board for discussion purposes.

    - High School Choir: The instructor can scan a page of sheet music and then project it onto the whiteboard.  The software allows voice recording so that individual students can sing from the sheet music and then collaboratively identify notes from the sheet music on which they need to work.

    - All Classes: Students who are absent can review the previous day’s lesson “live” from material saved on the interactive whiteboard.