[Watford] Something else discussed last night

[Jim Ford]

On 11/02/14 14:57, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 02:53:47PM +0000, Peter Grant wrote:
>> I stumbled upon that and as someone who's worked/works in education IT - I
>> feel this article can explain a lot of IT in education. Like the
>> interactive whiteboard - more like interactive white elephant! A very big
>> obvious and next to useless peice of kit.
>
> Yes - but it looks good and modern - that is why it is a must have !
>

My daughter's the Head of English at a comprehensive. I forwarded the 
above to her for her comments. FWIW this is her reply:

"I would say like with any technology its usefulness depends a lot on 
the person who uses it ;)

Yes a lot of teachers just use them as white spaces on which to project 
power points.

I use mine for annotation mainly but it's also really good for 
interacting with directly rather than going back to computer to 
manipulate resources.  Kids love using it too. You can save annotations 
unlike with a whiteboard."

Jim