One of the products that caught my eye at the ASE conference this weekend was something called Word Wall.
Word Wall is, in essence, a piece of presentation software for an interactive whiteboard. It allows you to make flipcharts like you would in Smart Notebook. It would be ideal for users of other IWB’s such as Hitachi/Interwrite boards where the software that comes bundled with the boards is not as user friendly as the software that Smart or Promethean users gets.
The first interesting bit is that Word Wall comes with a big bank of interactive buttons and activities that make it quite easy to add fun activities for lesson starters or plenaries. These integrate really easily with the “CleverClick” voting handsets that Word Wall also sell. These handsets have a small screen and allow you to text in answers as well as simply voting a, b, c, d. They even use predictive text!
The second interesting bit is that, when you save a flipchart that you have made you get the option to share it. This means that, if you have an internet connection, a copy of your file gets added to a central online library of flipcharts. These files are then accessible to any other Word Wall user. This is a very neat idea that should mean that pretty quickly there will be a large bank of user-created content that teachers can share and download. I wonder if Smart or Promethean have seen this yet?
If you don’t have a Smart or Promethean board and are in the market for a piece of software to get the best from your board (or just from your projector) then Word Wall may be something to take a look at. The handsets are also quite fun, and add a little more than just voting on answers.
If you are going to the BETT exhibition, Word Wall will be demonstrating their software and clickers at the show. Failing that you can order an evaluation copy from their website: http://wordwallweb.com
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