Mark and Nontobeko did Interactive Whiteboard training with 26 educators today at Zola BCM. At first educators were a bit apprehensive, but with some encouragement they stepped up and touched the board. They tried to treat it gently until they found out that they had to press harder when using their fingers. Unfortunately this board did not have pens so they had to use their nails.We started off with showing the different components involved in using an interact
ive whiteboard. Then we oriented the board in more than one way. We made the floating tool bars appear and disappear. The smartbook software was opened and we played around there a little bit. We also used the ,"Did you know" video from the Teacher's Without Borders training to motivate educators to use ICT in their teaching. Time flew by very quickly. The latecomers were also accommodated by quickly revising what was done. Educators are looking forward to next session, but more importantly they are excited by getting their own boards to use.
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Thanks Mark. The visits to schools Nomsa Mapongwani Prim and Isiphiwo Prim, showed that Educators need lot of practice to overcome the fear to touch the Inter Active whiteboard. Latecomers need to be addressed, because it is time consuming to repeat. Any first steps touching and playing on the board is a win. We really need to go very slow with educators. I notice that we rather have to introduce a little information at the start, with loads of practice. At Isiphiwo Prim the Laptops were still sealed in boxes, not even touched. The introduction to connect the Laptops to the EWB plays a vital role. This will ensure that Head of Departments will go fetch the laptops in the strong room to get them going.
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