The Seven Wonders of the Whiteboard Challenge - starting Mon 11th

[Jess McCulloch]

Are you using an IWB regularly but know you could use it better? Are you new to using an interactive whiteboard (IWB)? Have you used one for ages but want some other ideas? Then you are invited to join the Whiteboard Challenge!

Whiteboard Challenge Wiki

The aim of this challenge:
To improve the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom and to stimulate more discussion about how they can best be used.

What the challenge involves:
This Interactive Whiteboard Challenge will run for 7 weeks initially, starting on Monday August 11th. Each week there will be a new task set by someone who is an experienced whiteboard user. They will present their challenge in whatever way they like - it might be a short video, a screen cast a podcast. You then need to go and use whatever they have presented in your classroom that week. Record your efforts and write a blog post about how you went. At the end of the challenge you will have 7 blog posts about your whiteboard practice, and lots of other blog posts on similar topics available to you to read. Title your blog post 'Whiteboard Challenge Week 1' etc or something very similar so it is easy for others to identify your post.

You can ask for help with each challenge by leaving comments and questions in the discussion section of each page (just look for the tab at the top of the relevant page).

Finding Whiteboard Challenge blog posts:
Please join the Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom group on Diigo. Favourite your Whiteboard Challenge blog posts to the group and use the tag 'whiteboardchallenge' (all one word). This means that everyone in the Diigo group will have notification of all the Whiteboard Challenge blog posts.

So, if you want to sign up, make sure you visit the Challengers page and leave your details so we know how to contact you and where to find your blog posts if you don't want to be part of the Diigo group.

If you create a file that you would like to share with others, please upload it and link to it on the Lesson Files page.

As the challenge goes, you might come up with or come across ideas for future challenges. Please feel free to add these to the Further Challenge Ideas page, and if there are enough, we might just have to run another challenge!

[Matt Granger]

Wow! Cool idea. Jess, BTW, I saw that you were presenting at an online conference recently. I wasn't able to "attend" any of the sessions, but it looked cool. I can't remember where I saw it initially, but I saw your name on there.

Matt