This article presents the findings from classroom based research into the use of SMART Boards (interactive whiteboards) with kindergarten children. SMART Boards have been used successfully over the past 8years at Abbotsleigh Junior School innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning and facilitate assessment in primary Science. Key research findings are discussed along with some practical e...

Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have been widely introduced to English primary schools (5–11 years) in the last decade and this has generated much research interest. In the past, research has focused on IWB-use in teacher-led sessions, attending particularly to the nature of teacher-pupil interaction at the IWB and the apparent motivational advantages for children. In contrast, this study focuse...

Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the United Kingdom by local authorities with the intention of improving road safety. This training is often supplemented by in-class paper based worksheet activities which are seen to be less effective than practical training in that they focus on knowledge acqui...

The pace of technology adoption by university faculty is often slow. Slow faculty technology adoption may result from fear of failure, disinterest, or aversion to change. However, in 2007 we experienced a different faculty response while training faculty for technology-enhanced teaching at Butler University. During a technology upgrade of classrooms on our campus, we installed SMART interactive...

Our work uses interactive workspace capture technology to investigate the hows and whys of whiteboard use in collaborative design environments. By showing excerpts from data collected in two collaborative design settings, we describe how collaborators use whiteboards in an opportunistic, task-oriented fashion. We illustrate the patterns collaborators follow in their interactions with the whiteb...

Ontology Matching is the task of finding a set of entity correspondences between a pair of ontologies, i.e. an alignment. It has been receiving a lot of attention due to its broad applications. Many techniques have been proposed, among which the ones applying interactive strategies. An interactive ontology matching strategy uses expert knowledge towards improving the quality of the final alignm...

Modern electronic devices and teaching aids are constantly innovating education. Education has recently undergone many changes. Currently, the latest trend in modernisation of is represented by an interactive whiteboard. When used correctly, it represents a modern didactic tool that contributes to innovation efficiency specific subject. This contribution aims provide up-to-date information on u...