Interactive Whiteboards are ICT (information and communication technology) solution to education providing classroom environment that makes learning process for students much more full of life, interactive, synergistic, informative and personalized to the needs of the students. Interactive Whiteboards in India education system is going to play an important role in enhancing teaching. Indian Education system will be greatly enhanced by implementing Interactive Whiteboards. Every school, college and university in India is showing interest to implement Interactive Whiteboards into their classroom as a replacement of traditional whiteboards or flip charts.
Indian Teachers both in rural and metro schools have significantly started using Interactive Whiteboards to improve the quality of the instructions. Interactive Whiteboards make teaching sessions interactive and motivating. Using the software, Teacher can write, draw and annotate on its surface and navigates the computer functions from interactive whiteboard with finger or pen. Whatever teacher writes on its surface can be saved in the computer as an electronic file in various formats such as Picture, power point, PDF, HTML. These electronic files can be used later for repeated sessions or mail to absent student as an attachment. The software has a built in library of images on different subjects which teacher can use into their lessons. Interactive Whiteboards allows teachers to record their session in video format which can be shared in to their classroom. They have lots of tools for presentation like spotlight, snapshot, reveal etc. Spotlight shapes helps to focus attention on specific part. Reveal feature allows you to hide information and reveal in any direction.
There are different types of Interactive Whiteboards in the India based on technology. An IR (Infra Red) interactive whiteboard uses infra red beam to make the board touch sensitive. A resistive membrane board consists of two resistive sheets separated by air gap. Electromagnetic Board is composed of grid of wires, operated with stylus. Interactive Whiteboards in India are used at all stages of education as a replacement of traditional whiteboards or flip charts. There are different manufactures of Interactive Whiteboards in India providing wide range of Interactive Whiteboards.
