Technology Enhanced Learning

While I was up at Nipissing University recently, I was pleased to find out that although the Pre-Service Teacher Program has an active SmartBoard program, they are also investing an inexpensive alternative, the WiiMote Whiteboard.  I interviewed Ken Waller, the Iteach Co-ordinator and Education Faculty Member about the WiiMote Project including how to set up the WiiMote Whiteboard.  What resulted is the 18 minute video below which provides a plethora of tips and tricks for getting this inexpensive technology working in any classroom. Hopefully Ken Waller’s excitement about the project will spill over to a classroom near you!

I’m thinking that a worthy addition to the blue WiiMote Kit would be a flash drive loaded with the above video, several portable applications such as kindlelabs, VBDoodle, OpenOffice and Edusim, and lastly several ‘ready-made’ activities.

In order to provide a comprehensive instructional video, I needed to rely on other sources around the web… including numerous creative commons copyrighted works and thankfully I received permission from several others who didn’t have their work listed CC. Here is a list of additional resources:

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You can listen to an extended version of my conversation with Ken Waller about the WiiMote Whiteboard here (right click to download 30 minute 27meg mp3 file)

Tags: Edusim, Electronic Whiteboard, Interactive Whiteboard, IWB, Johhny Lee, Kindlelab, Nipissing, Nipissing University, WiiMote

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