ITIE Symposium Linkup in Ohio Sentinel-Tribune

WCESC will provide training on white board technology

Wood County Educational Service Center is in the process of installing two state-of-the-art interactive white boards, enabling it to serve as a site for professional training and development within the county and also Northwest Ohio.

Dr. Douglas Garman, ESC superintendent, hopes it results in teachers with white boards in their classroom asking “what more” they can do with them. Garman noted many local school districts have interactive white boards in classrooms, but the majority of teachers do not have the expertise to use them to their fullest potential.

“Teachers who have the time or interest in using the white boards are only using a fraction of what these boards will do,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Garman described the two Promethean interactive white boards which WCESC is installing as state-of-the-art because of “their interactive, data driven, aggregate information system that can also have interaction with other classrooms live during use. Nothing is more advanced than these boards.”

While attending a recent symposium in England on interactive technology in education, Garman saw a demonstration of live classroom interaction using white boards. The educational secretary of state in the United Kingdom talked with students in Montgomery School in Minneapolis, Minn.

“They saw us. We saw them,” he said, adding that the students were excited to be part of an international symposium.

“They were demonstrating what they’d been doing with white boards, their learning, their excitement.”

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