This document discusses using interactive whiteboards in Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate for student engagement. It provides examples of activities that can be done on the whiteboard like labeling images, matching pairs, brainstorming, and word searches. Templates are available for activities like a picture guessing game. The document demonstrates how to build activities by inserting images and text boxes on the whiteboard. It also discusses strategies for keeping students engaged like including an activity every 3-5 slides and using polls and chat.

1. Professional development - using Elluminate / Blackboard Collaborate whiteboards for student engagement and interaction. This session was facilitated via Elluminate so the interactives were interactive! The virtual room interface is changing with BbCollaborate11. Some functions are accessed differently. However content & “how to” processes are essentially the same.

2. What would YOU like to “take-away” today?

4. Hands on exploration of ideas & examples of whiteboard activities

5. How to construct interactives for a virtual class environment

6. Templates, examples and "how tos" that you will be able to access later to help you in making your own activities

7. Whiteboard tools & whiteboard menu functions

9. Some ideas for student activities Find & share links Guess the image quiz Rebuses of Industry words/phrases Label the image (drag & drop or type) Brainstorm Matching pairs (drag & drop or join) WordSearch Cloze exercises A glossary WordSearch extensions A gallery Activity briefs & feedback Grouping & categorising Pros & cons arguments Sequencing events

10. Strategies: Interactivity – every 3-5 slides: - participant input or activity on whiteboard - poll questions & results on whiteboard - audio or text chat responses to whiteboard content - change of presentation mode – egwbd, appshare, sharing link Use these to compensate for not being able to see if students are paying attention or Facebooking

11. Who is planning to do something else at the same time as being in this session? BE HONEST  Polling: = Yes = No

12. This gives you a highlighter pen Click this button to drag & drop on the whiteboard To insert & edit multiple lines of text This lets you type on the whiteboard Screen pointer Here you can choose font style and size Here you can choose text/ highlighter colours

13. Whiteboard activities Insert an image Elluminate clipart Take & insert a screenshot Group & ungroup Move into & out of slide background Load slides/ whiteboards Make a new whiteboard

16. A correct answer entitles the individual/team to a guess at the picture

17. Points for each correct answer

18. Points for successful identification - start with 200 and reduce by answer score for each part of the image revealedThe above instructions are a suggestion – write your own to suit you and your students 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points Topic a Topic b Topic c Topic d 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points

20. This is how we can build it – starting with the grid slide in Powerpoint The grid is saved as a single Powerpoint slide template (GuessPicGrid.ppt) available for you to use See no 5) in “Bits and Pieces” A C B D 1 2 3 4

21. Insert the image and send to back Align and resize grid or image a little if necessary Group all together Add your instructions and topic key Save the single slide as new with an appropriate name eg “Automotive1 Guess pic” Load into Elluminate to add the moveables A C B D 1 2 3 Topic a Topic b Topic c Topic d 4

22. The moveables are saved as a Whiteboard template (GuessPicMoveables.wbd) available for you to use. use See no 5) in “Bits and Pieces” NB you will need to download and save – will only open in Elluminate / Blackboard Collaborate

23. Adding the “Moveables” ie the picture reveal blocks Load in the GuessPicMoveables.wbd file after your ppt containing the Image with the grid ppt, your topic key, and your instructions 1. Click the “select” tool 10 points 10 points 10 points 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points 10 points DRAG 2. To Select - start at top right outside the grid, hold left mouse button & drag diagonally down & right to select all moveables 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 3. To copy the moveables use “Ctrl” + “C”

24. To add the moveables to your own image 1. In the Tools menu go to Whiteboard 2. Select the slide with your grid and image NB if you can’t see the thumbnails of your slides look further down the whiteboard menu & make sure that “Show thumbnails” is ticked

25. To add the moveables to your own image 1. Select and right click the selected slide ie the one where you want to paste the moveables 2. Click “Paste Objects to Screen” 10 points 10 points 10 points A C B D 10 points 1 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points 2 20 points 20 points 10 points 10 points 3. If the moveables are not fully aligned with the image then select as before and move them as a group 3 10 points 10 points 10 points 10 points 4

26. Loading slides If you have time: 1. Pre-prepare, load into Ellum 2. Add links, or anything you want people to drag, directly on the whiteboard 3. Resave in .wbd format Its quicker to load & allows clickable links

27. Word Search Warm-up No. 2 1. Find and highlight in the wordsquare one of the words in the list below 2. Look up the meaning in a dictionary 3. Prepare a short sentence that uses the word 4. Be ready to type your sentence on the whiteboard when we move to the blank screen

28. Sharing links on whiteboard Select link > Ctrl C > Click tool > click on wbd > Ctrl V Let’s do it! Share an industry relevant link This is the link to the puzzle maker I use to make wordsearches & other puzzles http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/

29. Researching about punctuation Research when you would use an apostrophe ‘ Find examples of the different ways of using apostrophes Research when you would use a colon : Find examples of the different ways of using colons Research when you would use a semi-colon ; Find examples of the different ways of using semi-colons Research when you would use an exclamation mark ! Find examples of the different ways of using exclamation marks Prepare two or 3 sentences about the use of the punctuation mark you have researched. Be ready to type them on the whiteboard

34. Saving whiteboards & chat Or copy/paste into a doc

35. Who wrote what on the whiteboard?

36. For participation or assessment evidence

37. Questions?

38. Did you learn something new? Polling: = Yes = No What is most useful to you from this session?

39. Feedback Was the pace of the session? A Too slow B Just right C Too fast

40. Feedback Was the session (content and activities)? A Interesting B OK C Boring

41. Feedback How was the session (format and structure)? A Just right – it worked well B OK C Not very good

42. Feedback Comments / ideas / +ves / -ves