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= Welcome to your Summercourse 2010 and New Wiki =

Learning Outcome for Course
To develop an Interactive Classroom by exploring

how to operate the hardware and navigate the software how to create and / or find interactive content how to integrate the content into daily classroom instruction.

**Where to begin?** You have the most essential equipment for an interactive classroom - **A data projector connected to a laptop.** With this equipment alone, your whiteboard can be used to display not only computer software but web pages and videos, whether on DVD or CD-ROM. (Having your laptop connected to the Internet is a must as there is an extensive range of whiteboard resources online) It is possible to highlight and annotate key points, using the marker pens. Anything on the screen can be saved as a 'snapshot' by a free piece of software called Jing, making it easy to review and summarise key teaching points.

To make your classroom more interactive, any of the following could be added - **A Wireless Mouse and Keyboard**: With these simple tools you can extend interactivity away from the computer operating the data-projector **An Interactive tablet/slate:** This can be written or drawn on with an electronic pen and allows the teacher to move around the classroom,consult with small groups and monitor individual learners. **A Visualiser** : This is powerful tool when used with a whiteboard. It projects anything placed under it onto the board so that children's work, a text book, a DS game or even a bug is immediately visible to all in amazing detail. **Scanner/Digital Camera**: Photographs, images, diagrams, maps and artwork are a great way of enhancing a lesson. Using the pen and highlight tools, you can interact with same, circlong key features, tracing over important sections and helping deepen their understanding of key concepts.


 * Lessons can be enhanced by easily integrating video, animation, graphics, text and audio with the teacher's spoken presentation.


 * By adding hyperlinks within your presentations you can move between websites, programmes or media by simply clicking on an icon ..

Lots of ideas and tips on the[| Drumcondra Interactive Website]