1.3 Basic methods and techniques of working with an interactive whiteboard in English lessons

Based on the fact that the lesson is a business game, the mathematician plays with symbols, the humanist with words, and the rules by which they do so remain a mystery to the child. The student can be made involved in the disclosure of secrets. And it is here that the interactive whiteboard becomes that playing field on which to do it easily and comfortably, on which you can make numerous various moves. An ordinary blackboard does not allow anything like this.

The interactive whiteboard is easy to use and interesting for students. To master the technology of working with it is not difficult. This virtual screen is able to give a brighter, more extensive idea of ​​the object being studied. He is able to visualize and mobilely imagine what is difficult or boring to explain in words. Tactile management facilitates the perception of new information, which brings the visual component of educational processes to a much higher level and significantly “unties the hands” of teachers, providing the opportunity to create dynamic lessons that capture the attention of students [22] .

An interactive whiteboard, no matter where and for what purpose it is used, is a powerful tool for visual presentation of data. On it you can place a large number of diverse information, the density of which is much higher than on a regular board. Special software allows the teacher to create author's lessons.

Tasks in English on the interactive whiteboard can be of a different nature:

1. Click on the correct answer;

2. fill in the blanks, tables, solve crosswords;

3. find the word, the correct answer;

4. arrange objects in the picture;

5. connect the dots, answer questions;

6. Find words matching pictures

7. read the words and indicate the subject;

8. listen and sing a song;

9. listen to the text and choose the correct answer to the question;

10. Type a word, phrase, sentence.

Thus, using an interactive whiteboard, we can most effectively organize the student’s permanent work in electronic form. This saves time, stimulates the development of mental and creative activity, and includes all students in the classroom.

Lessons using the interactive whiteboard allow you to initiate:

1. activity in operating acquired knowledge;

2. desire to share information with classmates;

3. emotionally sound cognitive background

4. activities; volitional manifestation: concentration of attention,

5. desire to overcome difficulties and reaction to the call by the end of the lesson;

6. free choice of cognitive activity.

An interactive whiteboard enhances students' attention, so the issue of discipline, one of the difficult questions that a teacher faces in a lesson, already depends on whether the teacher will be able to interest students with visual support for the interactive whiteboard, and will find the right tone in dealing with students.

To establish a good working discipline, it is necessary not only a deep knowledge of the subject, a clear and interesting presentation of it, but also the ability to accurately calculate the time of use of the board (no more than 15 minutes).

Thus, the use of an interactive whiteboard as an effective propaedeutic stimulating the study of complex phonetic and morphological rules can be successful under the following pedagogical conditions:

1. The interactive whiteboard contributes to clarity in the organization of the lesson as a form of a combined training session, which has valuable training, developmental, educational value;

2. The thoughtful construction of the lesson and the combination of other forms of organization of the educational process in the course of preparation have the dominant significance for the successful conduct of classes;

3. The pedagogical skill of the teacher is manifested in the lesson, which is distinguished by logical thoughtfulness, competent construction, a focused plan, equipped with appropriate didactic principles and techniques, correspondence to how it was conceived, and achievement of the tasks set.

Using an interactive whiteboard helps to correctly and clearly build a work plan, to fix the most important aspects on the whiteboard, to visually show and highlight the significant details of the lesson. With such successful work, the perception of information obtained by introducing a lesson with an interactive whiteboard changes [32].

Interactive whiteboards are not just electronic whiteboards. Learning with them is much more effective than learning only with a computer and projector. To make the most of your interactive whiteboard, you need to carefully plan your session. In addition, the lessons created on the interactive whiteboard can be used more than once, and this will save the teacher’s time.

Multimedia tools and technologies provide the opportunity to intensify learning and increase the motivation of preschoolers to learn through the use of modern methods of processing audiovisual information, such as:

• "manipulation" (imposition, movement) of visual information;

• contamination (mixing) of various audiovisual information;

• implementation of animation effects;

• deformation of visual information (increase or decrease of a certain linear parameter, image stretching or compression);

• discrete presentation of audiovisual information;

• image tinting;

• fixing the selected part of the visual information for its subsequent movement or viewing "under the magnifying glass";

• multi-window presentation of audiovisual information on one screen with the ability to activate any part of the screen (for example, in one "window" - a video, in another - text);

• demonstration of real processes, events in real time (video).

There are several concepts related to multimedia and the use of appropriate means of informatization in education. In particular, when using multimedia in the education of preschool children, the role of illustrations significantly increases.

It is important to understand that both interpretations of the term illustration are equally relevant to ordinary paper textbooks and study guides, as well as to modern multimedia tools. Moreover, the need for illustration leads to the fact that now all means of informatization of training should be used for a clear, convincing and accessible explanation of the main, fundamental or most difficult moments of the training material. Multimedia just contributes to this.

In multimedia tools, illustrations can be presented in the form of examples (including text), two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphic images (drawings, photographs, charts, graphs, diagrams), sound fragments, animations, video fragments. The appearance of new types of illustrations in educational multimedia tools does not mean a complete rejection of the previous approaches used in the publication of traditional school textbooks on paper [36]. Considerable experience has been accumulated in the field of illustrating and printing the traditional textbooks for general secondary education, according to which the features of the spatial grouping of publication elements are determined, the individual elements are accented (visually highlighted), and the physiological aspects of perception and other factors are taken into account. This experience has been successfully applied in the development of modern multimedia tools for teaching preschoolers.

Multimedia is an effective educational technology due to its inherent qualities of interactivity, flexibility and integration of various types of educational information, as well as due to the ability to take into account the individual characteristics of children and help increase their motivation.

Due to this, most educators can use multimedia as the basis of their activities in the informatization of education. Informatization of education is an area of ​​scientific and practical human activity aimed at the application of technologies and means of collecting, storing, processing and disseminating information, providing a systematization of existing and the formation of new knowledge in the field of education to achieve the psychological and pedagogical goals of training and education.

The positive and negative aspects of using multimedia in preschool education.

Multimedia helps:

1. Stimulating cognitive aspects of learning, such as perception and awareness of information;

2. Increase the motivation of preschoolers to learn;

3. The development of teamwork and collective cognition skills among students;

4. The development in children of a deeper approach to learning, and, therefore, entails the formation of a deeper understanding of the material being studied.

The negative aspects include the curtailment of social contacts, the reduction of social interaction and communication, individualism, the difficulty of transitioning from the sign form of knowledge representation on the pages of a textbook or display screen to a system of practical actions that have a logic different from the logic of organizing a sign system. In the case of the widespread use of multimedia technologies, educators and preschoolers become unable to use the large amount of information that modern multimedia and telecommunications tools provide. Sophisticated ways to present information distract students from the material being studied.

It should be remembered that if a child is simultaneously shown information of different types, he is distracted from some types of information in order to keep track of others, missing important information, and the use of informatization tools often deprives preschoolers of the opportunity to conduct real experiments with their own hands [35].

Individualization limits the live communication between the teacher and the children among themselves, offering them communication in the form of a "dialogue with the computer." The student does not receive sufficient practice of dialogical communication, the formation and formulation of thoughts in a professional language.

Finally, the excessive and unjustified use of computer technology negatively affects the health of all participants in the educational process.

The problems and contradictions listed above indicate that the use of multimedia tools in preschool education on the principle of “the more the better” cannot lead to a real increase in the effectiveness of the preschool education system. The use of multimedia resources requires a balanced and clearly reasoned approach.

Let us consider in more detail the above multimedia properties that turn this technology into a full-fledged component of education informatization.

The interactivity of education informatization means that users are given the opportunity to actively interact with these tools. Interactivity means the availability of conditions for educational dialogue, one of the participants of which is a means of informatization of education.

Providing interactivity is one of the most significant benefits of multimedia tools. Interactivity allows, within certain limits, to control the presentation of information: preschoolers can individually change settings, study the results, and also respond to program requests about specific user preferences. Children can set the material feed rate, number of repetitions, and other parameters that satisfy individual educational needs. This allows us to conclude the flexibility of multimedia technologies.

Multimedia technologies allow meaningful and harmonious integration of many types of information. This allows you to use a computer to present information in various forms, often used in preschool education, such as:

• Images, including scanned photographs, drawings, maps and slides;

• voice recordings, sound effects and music;

• video, complex video effects;

• animations and animated imitations.

The “Interactive Whiteboard” software and hardware kit is a modern multimedia tool that, possessing all the qualities of a traditional school board, has more opportunities for graphic commenting on screen images; allows you to control and monitor the work of all students at the same time; naturally (by increasing the flow of information presented) to increase the workload; provide ergonomic training; create new motivational prerequisites for learning; conduct training based on dialogue; to teach using intensive methods using case studies.

The interactive whiteboard allows you to project an image from the monitor screen onto the projection board, as well as control the computer using special felt-tip pens, being constantly near the board, as it would be using the keyboard or the mouse.

The whiteboard software used includes the following tools:

The notebook is a graphical editor that allows you to create documents of your own format and include text, graphic objects, both created in other Windows programs, and using the appropriate tools.

The video recording tool allows you to record in a video file (AVI format) all the manipulations currently performed on the board, and then play it using a video player or any other similar software tool. For example, using a notebook, you can draw a graph of a function or make a drawing, and then demonstrate the process of creating a picture again by launching a video file [37].

Additional (marker) tools are used to create various kinds of marks on the entire area of ​​the monitor screen, regardless of the current application. All notes made by the teacher, for example, in a Power Point presentation, can be saved.

Interactive whiteboards are divided into two classes, depending on the location of the projector: frontal and rear projection. Boards with frontal projection are most widespread, although they have an obvious drawback: the presenter can block part of the image with himself. To prevent this, the projector is suspended under the ceiling as close to the board as possible, the lens is tilted down, and the arising trapezoidal distortions are compensated by a digital correction system. Back projection boards, where the projector is behind the screen, are significantly more expensive and take up more space in the audience than direct projection boards. Since the screen works in clearance, there may be problems with the visibility of the image at large angles.

Recently, special models of projectors with a short-focus lens, designed for working with interactive whiteboards, have appeared on the market. Board manufacturers are increasingly offering ready-made complexes, which include boards and short-focus projectors attached to them on top of the bar.

An interactive whiteboard is a touchscreen display that works as part of a system that also includes a computer and a projector.

An interactive whiteboard works both as a monitor and a data input device: you can control a computer by touching the surface of the board. On the interactive whiteboard, you can work just like with a computer display: this is a data input device that allows you to control applications on your computer.

A way to work with programs on an interactive whiteboard.

If any program is open on the computer, then you can work with it directly on the interactive whiteboard.

In this case, the finger works like a mouse.

A single touch on the surface of an interactive whiteboard is equivalent to a left-click. You can open the program in the same way as it is done on a computer, but instead of selecting and opening files with the mouse, you can do the same with your finger. To match the cursor with a finger click, you need to calibrate the screen [24].

Marker tray

There are special containers on the tray that are responsible for the color of the marker and eraser. Each container has an optical sensor that determines which tool you took from the tray. The top button on the panel loads the On-Screen Keyboard. Bottom - turns your next touch on the board into a right-click.

Markers

To make notes on top of an image or file, you need to take a marker from the tray and write on the interactive whiteboard.

To write in a different color, you need to take a different marker. The color defines the container for the marker, not the marker itself. To avoid confusion, markers must be put in place.

Screen keyboard

You must press the button on the marker tray to launch the On-Screen Keyboard

1. Keyboard drop-down menu: Allows you to select the type of keyboard. The Classic looks like a regular keyboard that everyone is used to using. In Simple - the letters are arranged in alphabetical order, which is convenient when teaching primary school students. There is also a Number Pad, Shortcut, and Simple Caps.

SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Calibration

After this procedure, the Start menu will open after clicking on it. To start the calibration, just press and hold both buttons on the tray until the calibration screen appears.

Status indicator

The indicator on the interactive whiteboard reflects its state of readiness.

Colour	Condition
Flashing red and green	Marker tray during startup
Red	It works, but not yet connected to the software
Green	Marker tray is functioning

NOTE: If the status indicator is red, you can try to launch the board tools with the mouse, not with your finger, open the Start Program Software Whiteboard Tools. A whiteboard icon appears in the lower right corner of the screen.

Create Records

The interactive whiteboard allows you to write and draw on the surface of the board by taking a marker from the tray.

Transparent layer

When a marker is taken from the tray, a movable toolbar and a frame around the desktop appear. The frame means that you can write on top of the desktop, and remains until you place the marker or eraser back on the tray and touch the board. Your first touch of the board will delete the frame and all your notes.

A movable toolbar allows you to save your inscriptions and drawings.

To capture a desktop area, do the following:

1. Click the Area Capture button on the floating toolbar. The capture tool appears.

2. Click on one of the corners of the area you want to save.

While holding your finger, drag the selection window until it contains all the necessary area.

3. Release your finger, the selected area will be saved as an image in Notebook software. If the Notebook is not already open, it will open automatically when you capture an area of ​​the screen. Save the file by selecting File Save

Recovery of records and images

If you accidentally deleted your notes by touching the surface of the board, you can restore them by clicking on the message Click here to restore writing, which is located in the lower right corner of the screen. And after that, to save records, use Capture area.

If you do not see the message Restore written, follow these instructions:

1. Click the icon in the notification area in the lower right corner of the screen.

2. Open the Movable Toolbar from the menu.

3. Click the Cancel button to return all entries and drawings.

Interactive whiteboards are similar to ordinary whiteboards, but at the same time they help to use educational tools easily and naturally, being in constant contact with children. Interactive whiteboards help expand the use of e-learning tools because they transmit information to students faster than using standard tools. Interactive whiteboards allow the teacher to increase the perception of the material by increasing the amount of illustrative material in the lesson, whether it be a picture from the Internet or a large-scale table, a text file or a geographical map. The interactive whiteboard becomes an indispensable companion of the teacher in the lesson, a great addition to his words [27]. Interactive whiteboards allow you to create simple and quick corrections in the available teaching material right at the lesson, while explaining the material, adapting it to a specific audience, for specific tasks. Interactive whiteboards allow students to perceive information faster.

Interactive whiteboards allow students to participate in group discussions, making discussions even more interesting. With the full integration of interactive whiteboards in education, the creation of a single database of teaching and demonstration materials for teaching, teachers have more free time. The ability to more fully reveal the creative potential of the child. Stimulation of more active activities of children due to the possibility of independent management of objects on the board.

The development of positive motivation for directly educational activities through the creation of vivid images and impressions.

The electronic board allows you to:

1. active commenting on the material: highlighting, clarifying, adding additional information through electronic markers with the ability to change the color and thickness of the line;

2. Saving the results in a separate file as pictures or in HTML and PDF format.

The large illustrative material presented in SMART Notebook allows the introduction of new vocabulary, the development of words for lexical minimums. It is convenient to structure by topics (people, animals, weather, nature, transport, clothes, etc.). Pictures can be copied both in the Notebook itself, and in various editors (Word, Power Point). The Clone function allows you to quickly increase the number of identical pictures, which is convenient to use when studying the Numerals theme. Having inserted the drawings into a specific background, we can organize the speech situation on the material of the pictures, which contributes to the development of coherent speech. The selection of pictures for specific fairy tales, for example, “Three Little Pigs”, also serves this purpose. When working with SMART Notebook pictures, it’s possible not only to introduce new lexical units, but also to train raising a question, drawing up a statement, organizing a dialogue.

The SMART Video program is also valuable, which allows you to view video materials, which, as you know, significantly expand the amount of perceived information without resorting to application programs.

Thus, using an interactive whiteboard, it is possible to organize a student's permanent work in electronic form [28]. This significantly saves time, stimulates the development of mental and creative activity, and includes all children in the work. In addition, the software allows not only, as already mentioned, to save the slides of the screens, but also to arrange them in the desired sequence, including in the form of albums. You can view the slides of such albums and comment on them again.

It is necessary to take into account an important psychological point: modern preschoolers, who usually have computers with numerous games and televisions with aggressive video sequences at home, get used to perceiving the surrounding reality in this way. The capabilities of the interactive whiteboard allow you to switch them to understanding that video and game programs are successfully used for training, contributing to the development of creative activity, enthusiasm for the subject.

The use of ICT allows you to make the learning process vivid, visual, dynamic, vary private solutions based on existing ready-made “templates”, and also more effectively implement “feedback”.

Since there is no need to erase from the board during the lesson, all information is saved and at the end of the lesson you can quickly see the resolved examples, repeat the main points, draw conclusions, answer students' possible questions.

In addition, a student who misses this lesson for any reason receives the lesson materials in print or electronic form and can work out this material on his own, and then, if necessary, get the advice of a teacher who also uses the lesson materials for the explanation.

An interactive whiteboard helps you make exciting journeys through the country of knowledge. With the advent of Smart Board, lessons have become more interesting and non-standard, and students have the opportunity to reveal their potential, since even a weak student has a desire to go to class and work. Children began to feel more comfortable, they ceased to be afraid to go to the board.

Creating a situation of success, minimizing fatigue, increasing interest in learning is a vivid indicator of the importance of interactive equipment at school.

The appearance of technology makes teachers always be in a creative search, they try to surprise children with something new, not to stop there, because there is still so much fun ahead.

A board is used at different stages of the lesson: during the explanation of new material, consolidation of the past and testing of skills. Using this technique, you can organize individual, group work, work in pairs, which contributes to team building, strengthening interpersonal relationships.

The board helps to organize different types of work: intellectual and creative; contributes to the development of fine motor skills, the development of computational skills.

SMART Board technologies are changing the approach to learning, creating new opportunities for both teacher and student:

This is the development of imagination, the creative abilities of a child;

This is an opportunity to organize collective and group work using the tricks of the problematic.