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Games that I play/like. 20 Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. These tools are also cost effective. The Internet has tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Here is a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning: General Resources TeacherLED – TeacherLED is a site dedicated to making the use of Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) easier and more productive. SMART – This SMART Board interactive whiteboard site provides several lesson plans and activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Topmarks – With some of the best free educational materials for IWBs, Topmarks is a great resource for finding IWB lesson plans and activities.

Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom – This site for whiteboard users features tutorials, interactive websites, and software. Eduscapes – This guide to interactive whiteboards explains different activities and resources that can be used with IWBs. Enjoy! Free Math Worksheets: generate math worksheets for basic operations, fractions, decimals, measuring, clock, percents, number charts, square roots, and factoring - (Current Session: This 18-05-13) Worksheet Generators. Alternatives to Interactive Whiteboards. SmartBoards, Promethean Boards and many other kinds of Interactive Whiteboards are a good tool, but not every room has them and, personally, I don’t think they are worth the money.

Today I’m going to share some cost effective alternatives to the IWB, but keep in mind that all of these alternatives will require a digital video projector. One of the biggest challenges of integrating technology into learning is teaching students how to use said technology. An IWB shines here because it allows you to demo the computer program or Internet navigation using your fingers and a giant touchscreen.

Of course you could do this from your computer, but then you can’t really see your students and the learning becomes very impersonal. Of course, an Interactive Whiteboard is far more just a giant touchscreen, it also allows you to write on your computer screen and save it. The app that allows you to write and record a lesson is called ShowMe. Interactive whiteboards & alternatives. ELA and Math Worksheets. Wolves. Minecraft Advanced Machine Designs.

Tutorials/Item Sorter. The hopper is a useful device for controlling/counting/sorting items. [edit] Day counter This is a very simple machine for counting days. Every time it becomes day, the dispenser is activated and shoots an item into the chest. [edit] Item counter A mechanism that outputs short redstone signal for every item that goes through the dropper. The mechanism slows down the items moving through the dropper and the hopper above to make the outputs comfortable to use for counting mechanisms. The output of this counter can be used in any counting mechanism and can be counted using the scoreboard command in a command block. This mechanism made by Xbxp. You can download this mechanism from: Planet Minecraft - Item Counter [edit] Item sorter [edit] Introduction Most item sorters work using hoppers. Connecting the hopper to a comparator will allow the sorter to measure the contents of the hopper. [edit] Components There are two components to an item sorter: the item channel and the sorting component(s).

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