Teachers, Interactive Whiteboards and Learning Materials in Slovenia and Serbia

Abstract

The modern-day classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards driven by corresponding software. Using the advantages of the interactive whiteboards is often limited by the lack of knowledge about the software or lack of time to prepare learning materials. Some practical suggestions, examples, or ideas on how teachers should prepare the learning material suitable for interactive whiteboards may be very useful and encourage the usage by the teachers. Art education is an area where the majority of tools provided by the software can be in use to a great extent. The collections of interactive whiteboard learning materials were prepared to help teachers implement the interactive whiteboards in the teaching process. The selected topics in this paper point to the advantages of whiteboard learning materials, based on the responses of potential users (teachers) and brief descriptions of testing results showing opinions about effectiveness and suitability. The results, in brief, show that teachers and students assess the collection as a very helpful tool, which also promotes the implementation of interactive whiteboards into the learning process. Art teachers have confirmed the relative simplicity regarding the application or usage of the interactive whiteboard learning materials and expressed their willingness to teach with the collection throughout the teaching process. The results are encouraging, pointing to a trend toward using interactive whiteboard learning materials in everyday practice

Keywords

• interactive whiteboard
• learning materials
• art education
• teaching process
• learning material repository