My initial contact with IWB

My first exposure to the use of the IWB was in England more than four years ago. As graduate students we went to observe a classroom in a school where PDAs were being piloted and the teacher was using an IWB. The use of the PDI as well as the interactive whiteboard was new and fascinating to me. I was however concern about the teachers’ ability to effectively monitor all the students individually while at the same time coordinating the whiteboard, This corresponds well with one of the disadvantages that was pointed out in the readings; that the teacher’s  freedom to move about the classroom is somewhat restricted. The use devices such as wireless slates  can now help to address that problem.