THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRONIC WHITEBOARDS ON STUDENTS' READING SKILLS

Technology has become a demand for students to master their reading skills. Technology right now plays an important role in the teaching and learning process. The lecturer are needed technology to improve their material and make their teaching are effective. It was expected that to apply the electronic whiteboard itself can use by the lecturer to design better ways for the students to acquire important information. It is realized that the fourth-semester students at the English Department of Khairun University are needed as much information on the electronic whiteboard as possible to improve their reading skills. This research is an experimental research that was held at the English Program at Khairun University Ternate. The experimental research involves two groups of students, they are the experimental group and the control group. The researcher used the English Program's fourth-semester students at Khairun University Ternate as a research sample. The result of the t-test in the experimental class shows that the mean score of the pre-test was 74.90 and the means score of the post-test was 81.90. It shows that electronic whiteboards in the experimental class experienced significant improvement in students reading skills. Then, the standard deviation in the post-test was 5.58 and the standard deviation in the pre-test was 4.38. It could be concluded that the students get significant progress in their reading skills after applying the electronic whiteboard.

Quality and safety between ward and board: a biography of artefacts study

BackgroundThere have been concerns about the quality and safety of NHS hospital services since the turn of the millennium. This study investigated the progress that acute NHS hospital trusts have made in developing and using technology infrastructures to enable them to monitor quality and safety following the publication in 2013 of the second Francis report on the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry. Chaired by Sir Robert Francis QC.Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry. HC 898. London: The Stationery Office; 2013).MethodsA telephone survey of 15 acute NHS trusts in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, and a review of board papers of all acute NHS trusts in England for January 2015, were undertaken. The telephone survey was used to identify trusts for a larger field study, which was undertaken in four acute NHS trusts between April 2015 and September 2016. The methods included the direct observation of the use of whiteboards and other technologies on two wards in each trust, an observation of board quality committees, semistructured interviews and an analysis of the quality and safety data in board papers. Published sources about national and local agencies were reviewed to identify the trust quality and safety data that these agencies accessed and used. An interview programme was also undertaken with those organisations. The Biography of Artefacts approach was used to analyse the data.FindingsThe data and technology infrastructures within trusts had developed over many years. The overall design had been substantially determined by national agencies, and was geared to data processing: capturing and validating data for submission to national agencies. Trust boards had taken advantage of these data and used them to provide assurance about quality and safety. Less positively, the infrastructures were fragmented, with different technologies used to handle different quality and safety data. Real-time management systems on wards, including electronic whiteboards and mobile devices, were used and valued by nurses and other staff. The systems support the proactive management of clinical risks. These developments have occurred within a broad context, with trusts focusing on improving the quality and safety of services and publishing far more data on their performance than they did just 3 years earlier. Trust-level data suggest that quality and safety improved at all four trusts between 2013 and 2016. Our findings indicate that the technology infrastructures contributed to these improvements. There remains considerable scope to rationalise those infrastructures.LimitationsThe four trusts in the main study were, in part, purposively selected, and deliberately biased towards sites that had made progress with designing and deploying real-time ward management systems. This limits the generalisability of the study. The study focused more on the work of nurses and nurse managers, and has relatively little to say about the experiences of doctors or allied health professionals.Future workFuture research might focus on the effects of mobile technologies and electronic whiteboards on acute wards, the value of current national data returns, and the uses and value of trust data warehouses.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.

New tools for a new age: An evolution or revolution in higher education?

In this paper we describe how digital technologies can be used to enhance collaboration and student engagement in a large, multicampus undergraduate science unit. Four innovations developed and implemented over a period of eight years are described: use of electronic whiteboards, on-line discussion forums, social media and blogs. In showing the intermediate steps in the evolution of the use of digital and communication technologies, we demonstrate that to be effective, good educational principles are paramount.

Use of Technology to Motivate Students

A middle school teacher proposed that since students these days are more at ease with technology due to the excessive use of technology gadgets in their lives, why not make the best use of technology by way of electronic whiteboards to engage students? This brought about some changes in this inner city school which had failed the state Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) report more than once. However, was the sudden surge in student motivation the result of the novelty effect or the Hawthorn effect? And might that surge in student motivation soon fade away?

Automatic Lecture Recording for Lightweight Content Production

Today, classroom lectures are often based on electronic materials, such as slides that have been produced with presentation software tools and complemented with digital images, video clips, and so forth. These slides are used in the live event and verbally explained by the teacher. Some lecture rooms are equipped with pen-based interfaces, such as tablet PCs, graphics tablets, or electronic whiteboards (Figure 1). These are used for freehand writing or to graphically annotate slides. Lecturers put a tremendous effort into the preparation of such electronic materials and the delivery of the respective live event. The idea of approaches for so-called automatic lecture recording is to exploit this effort for the production of educational learning material. Although it is still controversial if such documents could ever be a substitute for actual classroom teaching, it is generally agreed that they make useful, gaining complements to existing classes, and their value for education is generally accepted (Hürst, Müller, & Ottmann, 2006). While manual production of comparable multimedia data is often too costly and time consuming, such “lightweight” authoring via automatic lecture recording can be a more effective, easier, and cheaper alternative to produce high quality, up-to-date learning material. In this article, we first give a general overview of automatic lecture recording. Then, we describe the most typical approaches and identify their strengths and limitations.