Purpose

This site is designed to provide teachers with access to high quality teaching resources for use on Interactive Whiteboards.

In line with the title of this site all of the resources on this on this site are designed to help the teacher lead the lesson. They do not attempt to provide any instruction. Their purpose is to allow the teacher to explain, demonstrate and provide examples to further the students’ understanding of the lesson. By not circumventing the teacher’s role, as many resources do, they allow the teacher to provide as much instruction and examples as he/she deems necessary at an appropriate pace.

The resources generally fall into one of two types but all are expected to be used with a whole class with an Interactive Whiteboard. The majority are designed to teach a single concept. These can be seen as equivalent to a presentation produced by a teacher to teach a single lesson.

The second type of resource is more general. Those in this category are intended to be used as starter or plenary activities. Included in these are the games. The games are designed to be played as whole class events. They either have a fixed goal or the difficulty is set so that no game should last too long. As such a class competition is quite possible using them. The games are not designed to played by a student alone, the activity is expected to be teacher led. Often the interface of these games will be designed to work better with a touch screen.

The resources are developed from ideas in the classroom by a practising teacher from a list of “I wish I had” moments where the most appropriate way to demonstrate something just doesn’t seem to exist. It is hoped that the use of these resources will allow teachers to be able to spend less time sitting in front of the computer creating Interactive Whiteboard presentations.

The resources focus on Maths at the moment but will expand to cover other areas.

Please note that as the resources are the product of a single person the testing of them is being placed in the hands of the users, there is no guarantee that bugs don’t exist. Please feedback any issues in the comments section.

Structure

It is hoped that the number of resources will continue to grow. New resources will be displayed on the front page for a while. All resources can be browsed by category on the left hand side of the front page.

Many resources come with an instruction sheet to help those teachers whose confidence with ICT and interactive whiteboards is less developed. This can be read online or downloaded in PDF format. Where useful the instruction sheet will come with additional resources.

Each resource instruction page has the facility for comments to be entered. Please leave feedback on the individual resource here. If you encounter any bugs with the resource please detail it here to enable it to be fixed

Feedback on how effective you found the resource is also appreciated to inform future development.

Comments have a moderation applied to them and so may not immediately appear after you submit them.

Future

Resources will continue to be developed for this site. Please note, however, that only one person produces these resources in their entirety. As such there will be a delay between each resource. Development of the site began in February 2007 and publication was delayed until enough resources were available to make it a useful resource from the beginning.

Site Author

This site and all of the resources are owned and produced by Spencer Riley, a teacher since 2002 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

If you would like to commision any interactive resources for projects, VLEs etc please contact me at the following email address:

Advertising

It is hoped that this site can meet its costs through advertising. There is a clear distinction between pages that are to be used by teachers and those that are to be used by students. No advertising will appear on a page specifically designed for use by students, ie the interactive learning resources.

Conditions of use

Please remember that no site can guarantee it will always be available. It should be available 99.99% of the time but if you face a particularly important lesson observation never rely on the internet. Have a back up plan!

In recognition that logging in to sites is a pain, no registration is required by this site for use or posting comments. IP addresses of those who comment are recorded to monitor for abuse. No resource stores or records any data that is entered. Any future exceptions to this would be only to provide additional functionality and will be clearly noted on the resource instructions.

While these resources are free to use, full copyright of the code, design and graphics remains with the author.

The resources on this site are accessible only through this site. No resource may be downloaded or disassembled.

Linking to this site is appreciated but all links should be to the main home page for general websites. If you wish to directly refer to a resource please link to the instruction page rather than the resource. This ensures that users see the notes to inform their use of the resource.

You may not link directly to any resource (hotlinking). Sites that attempt to do this will be permanently blocked.

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