Drumcondra Education Centre - Interactive Whiteboards

(In case you arrive at this page via an Internet Search, click here to get to the CBI Project Homepage)

This a page of classroom resources for the Interactive Whiteboard Project.

Please let us know of any other useful resources you come across by sending an email to: whiteboards@cesi.ie

N.B. before you download and/or run files from the internet, make sure they come from a reliable source and also make sure to run your own anti-virus check on them. Also check the copyright to see if you can use and/or distribute the files

Note the File Extensions: these will you what whiteboard or other software is needed to run the files. They are also useful if you just want to search for the particular file types on your computer or on the Internet. There are a number of interactive Macromedia Flash activities available online ....look for the file extension .swf. Microsoft PowerPoint (or its PowerPoint Viewer) uses .ppt as the file extension; these files will also open in StarOffice. Microsoft Excel (or its Excel Viewer) uses .xls; note that a number of these files will not open in StarOffice. Files that end with .exe are stand-alone programs and will run directly.

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Resources for all CBIs These resources are generally web-based interactive activities which are work well on Interactive Whiteboards. These resources may also work on a computer, with or without a Data Projector: the CBI of course adds an extra dimension to the activity

Magic Square - I have made a spreadsheet to generate a magic square, with input control by Teacher ...left-click to open directly (or right-click and Save Target As) here (18 Kb)

Ireland's Mountains and Rivers - a simple JPEG file for you to use, colour, annotate etc. ...left-click to open directly (or right-click and Save Target As) here (1012x971, 94 Kb)

100 Square: a simple spreadsheet file (which will open in Excel, Star etc.) ...left-click to open directly (or right-click and Save Target As) here (14 KB) ..or click here for a Web version

The members of the INTO have developed resources (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations) to support the curriculum ...visit www.into.ie/ROI/Interactive/ClassroomResources/and choose from the Subject panel on the Left-hand Side.

Many of your Teacher colleagues have been engaged by NCTE to produce Worksheets, Class Plans etc. These are all available via Scoilnet: visit www.scoilnet.ie...use the 'Teachers' Tab, and locate the Resource by Class, Year, Subject, Special Needs etc.