Training
Training in a South Australian School
Selena has recently returned to South Australia and is already offering training courses and working with Interactive IT Group SA. She is also available to book for coaching at your school on a number of topics. No task is too small! If there’s something your team would love to know how to do just ask and she’ll show you in a fun and productive way. We give you a “no doodle” guarantee as your team are whisked on an inspiring learning journey.
Free online training is available in the Teacher Technologies Moodle already. Here you can meet people from all over the world who are trying, as you are, to get to know new hardware and software better whilst creating exciting new lesson resources. Answer the challenges reguarly set to help you find new ways of teaching your subject with your interactive whiteboard, watch free video tutorials and find a whole heap of resources to keep your planning down!
Interactive Whiteboard Training.
Sessions are available for both SMART and Promethean formats.
Outlined below are the three levels of training most commonly asked for. However, bespoke courses which work specifically to develop the needs of your teachers are available upon request. Feel free to use the contact form to enquire further.
Introduction to Interactive Whiteboards
This session aims to enable you to:
- Use the skills that you learn in the course in your own classroom.
- Become interested and enthused about the possibilities open with the use of an IWB.
- Consider how an IWB can enhance teaching and learning.
This, the first in a series of three workshops, introduces you to the basics of the use of the interactive whiteboard to enhance teaching and learning. During the session you will find out about the basics of Interactive Whiteboards. How to switch it on, How to orientate / calibrate your board, where to find free resources that are ready made and how to create your own simple interactive activity for a lesson you’re teaching this week!
Tricks and Tips 1 (Intermediate)
This session aims to enable you to:
- Make a range of simple interactive activities that you can use in your classroom.
- Begin to explore more of the features the software you are using has to offer.
- Consider how an Interactive Whiteboard can add extra pedagogical tools to your belt!
What if your students had the power to rub out their response and reveal the correct answer?
In this session we look at some of the tools which are available inside the software. You are asked to create resources using techniques such as interactive cloze activities, hide and show, rub and reveal spotlights and revealers and layers and groups. Handy how-to resource sheets are given out for you to keep; something to refer to later when you’re developing your lesson resources.
Tricks and Tips 2 (Intermediate / advanced)
Requires users to have downloaded and installed Audacity (free ware)
This session aims to enable you to:
- Make a range of simple interactive activities that you can use in your classroom.
- Begin to explore even more of the features the software you are using has to offer.
- Consider how an Interactive Whiteboard can add extra pedagogical tools to your belt!
Can you create an X-Ray machine like this one?
Ever wanted to know how to add personalised sounds to your flipchart? Perhaps you’d like your voice to read out a word in another language when you click on it? You’d like to be able to run a square over a body and reveal what’s inside it with ‘magic ink’ or learn how to use your software to take images from anywhere on your computer and place them straight into your flipchart? We also cover adding flash activities that you find on the internet to your lessons without needing to be connected to the web.
A very exciting session which will definitely get your creative juices flowing!
and many more…
Please feel free to enquire about details of more advanced courses in IWBS, Podcasting or MOODLE.
