How Can I Use an Interactive Whiteboard?

An interactive whiteboard may be one of the most underutilized yet useful tools for business presentations, seminars, and classrooms. Often, the boards are used like any other projector screen with little consideration of their full interactive potential. However, there are a number of creative ways in which you can use interactive whiteboards to enhance the experience of your intended audience.

Make a Presentation an Activity

One of the most underrated benefits of giving a presentation on an interactive whiteboard is the ability to take notes as you give the presentation and incorporate questions, feedback and further discussion. Unlike other whiteboards, where such notes are gone forever once erased, you can save these additions digitally for later review and refinement. You can also enhance the collaboration by incorporating multimedia – including videos and audio components – and web-based tools.

Turn an Activity into a Community

Interactive whiteboards give you a unique opportunity to connect your presentation with a wider community of experts and interested parties. This allows people who are viewing your presentation remotely through a mobile device to contribute during a live stream. They might contribute to existing interactive lessons or to group tutorials, making real-time tests or assessments more accessible. Group work, or instructing a large group on a complex procedure, becomes easier with this feature. You and your audience can dive right in when dealing with problems that require systemic solutions or joining an ongoing discourse that has yet to reach a consensus.

Leverage the Talents of Your Audience

When giving a presentation, you may be surprised how much your audience has to contribute. There may be experts listening in, quiet and undetected. By connecting your whiteboard to their mobile devices, the audience can use touchscreen functions to add questions, address concerns and provide additional data. Interactive whiteboards present an enormous opportunity for collaboration and cooperation both during and after your presentation. Surveys and quizzes can provide you with additional feedback or data that could add value to your presentation or help you to prepare for and improve the next one.