Interactive whiteboards

I gave a demonstration of how to use an "interactive whiteboard" to a group of lecturers yesterday, and it's fair to say they were very impressed. They were lucky, actually, because they'd inherited a teaching room left behind by the Ergonomics department, and so coincidentally they inherited a large and perfectly-configured interactive whiteboard.

These things are really good to use. They're one of the few things in the area of "learning technology" which is genuinely quite intuitive to use. Simply use it like an ordinary projector screen, but when you want to scrawl a note on top of one of your slides, or use the mouse to perform some action, you simply touch the screen with your finger!

This model comes with some very handy extras, such as character recognition (it will turn your scrawled markings into neatly-formatted computer text), different colours of "pen" to write with, etc. Try one out, if you ever get a chance...