In recent staff discussions regarding 2008, I’ve had many people ask me directly, or tell me they’ve asked others (such as John) for an interactive whiteboard in their classroom next year. The interest has certainly been encouraging.
I hope you can understand that the question of who gets an IWB can’t be answered yet because we haven’t even asked it. The key question before this can be considered is that of how much money can be directed towards this resourcing next year.
So, to help us in eventually answering the question of who/what grades should have IWBs installed next year, I have one simple question…
Why do you want an interactive whiteboard in your classroom next year?
Reason: just curious.
I look forward to your answers.
I think to have ‘equity’ across the school, all classes need to have a data projector in their classroom rather than half the grades having IWB’s and the other classes having nothing!!!. Then add the IWB’s as money becomes available. The reason the data projector in the strong room is not used is because you need time to go and get it and then put it back. The convenience of having a data projector installed in the classroom, would mean you would use it.
Hi Sue,
Congrats on being the first to reply to this post and on your first comment on Technoblog as well! We’re trying to look at how many different ways we can try and balance everything as best as possible. At the moment, I’m still waiting on a confirmation on just how much is in the budget this year, so once I know what we’re playing with, we can start to be a bit more certain on what we can/will do.