Now that a large number of people are turning to online tutors, there
is a great demand to provide a good tutoring experience and deliver
results. Although time flexibility and resource availability are huge
advantages of online tutoring, it needs to be something different in
order to make a difference from classroom learning and therefore provide
solutions to students who need help to fully understand concepts.
In
order to provide such a solution, it is important to use technology to
our advantage. One such educational technology that has been developed
is an interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are a progression
from traditional blackboard and chalk, and even whiteboard and markers.
They do not require you to write or draw anything by yourself, and
provide some really good features that can be used for a good
interactive teaching session.
Interactive whiteboards come loaded
with features. You can display presentations, animations, videos,
graphs, tables, images, and whatever other material you wish to show
your student. You don't have to do any of it by hand; you can use handy
tools to make most of these resources, and can often find many useful
resources for free online. You can download these resources and easily
display them on whiteboards.
Interactive whiteboards are also
special because they are interactive. You don't just stand by while some
material is projected on a screen; you can write on it, make notes,
comments, annotations, show certain maneuvers to your students - all
through a touch screen or a stylus. All these can be saved for future
reference.
To make your class more interesting, and do away with
long hand-written assignments, quizzes and papers that you have to spend
time grading, interactive whiteboards can be used again. They often
come with devices which can record student responses to multiple choice
questions and such like, and also automatically evaluate marks, making
the teaching job much easier for you. It takes care of all the menial
work so that you can concentrate on putting together some of the best
material for the student.
In online tutoring sessions, tutors use a
board to write down points on. However, as much is provided in schools.
In order to catch the student's attention and provide them the extra
input that will help them understand concepts, interactive whiteboards
can be used. Videos and animations can go a long way in helping students
conceptualize fundamentals of a subject. Since online tutoring as it is
does not allow you to receive hard copies of written assignments,
interactive whiteboards can help you there as well.
In case you do
not conduct live tutoring sessions, interactive whiteboards can again
be very helpful. Since you will not be present to clarify doubts to
re-explain concepts that have not been understood the first time, it
becomes more important to use material that can elucidate subject matter
clearly. You can also record videos on interactive boards; you can use
this recorded matter for passive tutoring.
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