ELT Seminar in Bursa – IWBs

Today, I went to an ELT (English Language Teaching) seminar, which was organised by several publishing houses (Cambridge, Oxford, Longman, Macmillan, etc.). The venue was the private primary school ?lkbahar ?lkö?retim Koleji. The presentations were interesting and lunch was great. 

The most interesting presentation for me was the one about IWB software (interactive whiteboard). It was the first time for me to see the software life. But I was more interested in the tool used during the presentation. It was not a regular IWB but a much less expensive and portable tool. This tool can be taken anywhere and any white surface can be used as the screen. There are many such portable “IWBs”. The one used for this presentation) was e-beam.

I had been thinking of buying one for my off-line classes but wasn’t sure whether they really worked well. The presenter had no problems during the life event except in cases where he had to reach the top of the screen. In these cases he had to walk back to the laptop. This “problem” is due to the fact that, contrary to the fixed-size IWBs, the portable ones have the advantage that there is no limit to the size of the “screen”