An important technology tool that is available online is called the interactive whiteboard. There are many different websites that can be utilized for this, one being Gynzy, which is shown above. This tool is utilized for many different types of activities such as games, activities, lessons, etc. For Gynzy, you can even save the lessons that you liked and would maybe try in your own classroom. These different lessons can be altered to the teacher's liking and saved to the website. Also, you can favorite different activities or lessons so that you can return to them if you don't have time to look at them at one time. The tool is used for engaging students and other participants.
Interactive whiteboard aligns with the danielson framework within domain 3 for instruction. The activities within the program help keep the students engage which aligns with element c. The instruction should be engaging which helps students who are not into the standard classroom. Students are usually sitting around all day and with this program you can get students out of their seat, enjoying class. Also, this touches on the factor of having different types of instruction within the classroom. Teachers should switch out different techniques so that the students stay engaged and learn more from them. The interactive whiteboard provides a new technique to instruct your students and includes different types of activities to keep them engaged.
I could see myself using this technology tool within my classroom in many different ways. The different types of activities have lessons so I would love to utilize those to try something new for the students and to gain insight on the different types of topics. Also, I would like to use some of the activities as a warm-up to help the students open up to the other members of the classroom and even collaborate with others. There are many activities where they could collaborate with a person in the class to either create or complete an assignment. It would be useful because it is more engaging for the students and could possibly help people who are visual learns or kinisthetic learning.
Danielsongroup.org, www.danielsongroup.org/framework/