Interactive Whiteboards

My feelings toward the interactive whiteboards are that students in today's classrooms are more inclined to gain information from using the whiteboard, than through a teacher putting notes on the board and having the students copy it. I would use the interactive whiteboard in my classroom, it is a great tool to use to teach several subjects. As a history teacher I could use the interactive whiteboards for current events in the paper and to teach lessons about the fifty states and capitals.
The advantages to the use of the interactive whiteboards are the it not only gives the students a place to take notes, but be interactive with the lesson. Students could circle the important information on the slides in different colors to pick out what is important of the differences between similar stories. The interactive whiteboards will engage the students to think and put themselves in the lesson by using the whiteboard tools. Other advantages are that the teacher can give tests or quizzes of filling in the blanks and have the students fill the blanks in.