Interactive Whiteboards Lesson - Brainstorming

Brainstorming is an activity which is carried out to work out a peculiar job through grouping efforts. To acquire best solution to a peculiar problem, an thought from a single individual is not enough. Therefore thoughts from assorted people are randomly accumulated before they are evaluated. This is known as the brainstorming session.

Now to observe down these ideas, you necessitate a large surface like wall or a giant White and apparent surface. Here synergistic whiteboards can be really utile as you can enter as many randomly accumulated thoughts as you like for subsequent evaluation. First define the job and the goal. Then make a tabular array on the whiteboard with three columns named as: 'Available Resources', 'Constraints' and 'Strategies'. Ask pupils to come up up one by one and compose down resources, restraints and scheme (that should be adopted to accomplish the goal) in tabular format. Give them some clip to come up up with there ain thoughts and do certain that every pupil is cleared on the subject being brainstormed.

Clearly instruct the whole class, not to criticise any student's suggestion. You as a instructor must enter all suggestions, no substance how far they are from the topic. You can also let pupils to utilize an electronic response system through which they can submit there responses. The advantage of this system is that, pupils acquire the chance to lend without any fearfulness of being evaluated by other participants. It is also helpful for those pupils who are shy. Set up a clip bounds for your treatment and halt it as soon as the clip is up. Delete similar and off subject suggestions, re-arrange them and prioritize them through grouping discussion. Use an electronic panel for re-arranging and prioritizing suggestions.

The advantage of the panel is that, you can liberate up the whiteboard for the whole social class to see. The suggestion which stays at the top at the end of the brainstorming session is the best solution for a given problem.