Local Legislators View High-Tech Teaching Tactics on Promethean's Interactive Whiteboards.ATLANTA -- Georgia legislators will see Promethean's Collaborative Classroom interactive whiteboard An interactive whiteboard is a large 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. system put through its paces at the annual Capitol Tech Day. Every year, teams of students from schools representing the state's Educational Technology Training Centers converge on the Georgia Legislature to demonstrate the latest teaching technologies. The annual event gives local legislators an opportunity to see how these tools are helping to increase student achievement and build community partnerships within the schools. On Monday, March 7, two of the 13 teams attending will show how they are using Promethean's ACTIVboard Collaborative Classroom system to change lessons from simple lectures to multimedia activities that engage all the members of a classroom. Students will manipulate computer images on the ACTIVboard's touch-sensitive surface and use the ACTIVstudio2 software's built-in tools such as highlighter high·light·er n. 1. A usually fluorescent marker used to mark important passages of text. 2. A cosmetic for emphasizing areas of the face, such as the eyes or cheekbones. pens, ruler, protractor protractor Instrument for constructing and measuring plane angles. The simplest protractor is a semicircular disk marked in degrees from 0° to 180°. A more complex protractor, for plotting position on navigation charts, is called a three-arm protractor, or station or rolling dice. They will also remotely control the whiteboard The electronic equivalent of chalk and blackboard, but between remote users. Whiteboard systems allow network participants to simultaneously view one or more users drawing on an on-screen blackboard or running an application. with the ACTIVslateXR and answer questions with ACTIVote handheld keypads. The teams are from Wayne County Wayne County is the name of sixteen counties in the United States of America, some named for the American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne:
ETTC Engineering Technology Transfer Center (USC) ETTC Environmental Technology Technical Council ETTC Estimated Total Target Cost and from Upson County (Upson County Middle School) representing the Macon State College The college offers 27 majors in 13 bachelor's degree programs -- biology, business & information technology, communications & information technology, early childhood education, English, health information management, health services administration, history, information technology, ETTC. Both will be making ongoing presentations during the event to legislators from their own booths. Attendees will also get a first-hand look at how interactive whiteboard technology can have a positive, long-lasting effect on students' academic careers.
WHAT: Demonstration of activities that use Promethean's
Collaborative Classroom interactive whiteboard technology to
improve student learning.
WHEN: Monday, March 7 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
WHERE: State Capitol, Capitol Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drive (at Washington Avenue and Mitchell Street)
WHO: Local legislators, students and teachers from Wayne County
and Upson County, Promethean personnel
VISUALS: Photographers and cameramen will have access to students
conducting visually interesting lessons on the whiteboard.
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