This week I was teaching phonics to an intervention group of students who are for the most part new to this country or their fluency is very low. That particular day I was teaching them the oo sound as in the word good. I used the interactive white board to display the words with the 00 sound as well as pictures that represented the words.

The students then went up to the white board and wrote the words when only given the picture of the words. The students liked this very much. An advantage of this is the fact that the pictures were previously placed on the lesson. They were only a click away. And, if we needed to go back to their writing, that was also a click away. Compared to the regular white board, where the students writing would need to be erased so that another student could come up to the board, the interactive whiteboard adds a new blank page with just a click.
If you want to play educational games with the students, you could do that on the interactive board as well. You just go to a website that has educational games, display the games on the interactive white board and the students come up to the board to move things around and push buttons. How fun is that!