Going into this session, I thought i was going to have the same difficulty as my primary school teachers did when it was first introduced… The endless re-calibration (that we turned into a game), the difficulty of pressing on and off are just a couple of the issues that put me off, ten years ago, the lack of knowledge and use meant it was just a glorified television and maybe a whiteboard- if the teacher hadn’t given up and headed back to the actual whiteboard. I don’t think I valued the interactive whiteboard until this session, when it and I developed a new understanding for the uses of it and i discovered that technical difficulties aside, this whiteboard is going to be my teaching tool, in lots of different ways… I think we should be grateful that SMART have given us a shortcut with interactive activities, for example, match pairs.. I won’t need to go onto powerpoint and put individual animations on everything! It is quick and convenient to use and can be used across all different subjects.