08/11/2015
Educational Technology plays an important role in Teaching and learning process, and since the last 20 years, E-learning took a place in the classrooms as a new trend in using education technology. The E-learning is an important development taking advantage of computer technologies and software, communications and information, to be employed in the process of teaching and learning, where it has become one of the alternatives in the dissemination of education and activating the training, whether direct or indirect, overcoming the obstacles of space and time and risk, and provided for the teacher's experiences effectively, enriched the learning and development teaching, and has become a modern teaching method, employing modern communication mechanisms; to support the educational process, enrich and improve the quality.
E-learning has many faces in classrooms; Interactive Whiteboard is one of many equipments of e-learning. Interactive Whiteboard is a large touch-sensitive and interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger, or other device.
The Interactive Whiteboard software allows for teacher-cued animation; equations and word problems that can be retrieved, dragged, and dropped; projected information that a teacher can highlight, enlarge, or conceal; stored additional resources; and recorded student feedback. The Interactive Whiteboard allow for the creation of collaborative and interactive lessons by combining resources with a trained instructor‘s ability to move and manipulate objects.
In addition, Interactive Whiteboard allows teachers to do many rolls and got many benefits, for example, accessed and presented more relevant scientific content by linking to web resources and videos. Teachers can allow students to manipulate variables, test predictions, and see phenomena that would otherwise be impossible to observe.
