Observation Of An Interactive Whiteboard In The Classroom

1. Introduction An interactive whiteboard (IWB) is a big interactive monitor in the form element of a whiteboard. It can either be a free touchscreen computer used independently to carry out tasks and operations, or a connectable device used as a touchpad to control computers from a projector. They are used in a variety of settings, including classrooms at all grades of education, in corporate assembly halls and work groups, in training rooms for professional sports coaching, in broadcasting station, and others. ("Interactive whiteboard," n.d., para. 1). The first interactive whiteboards were intended and produced for use in the office. They were advanced by PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated) around 1990. This board was used in

Method This study took place in Turkey, Adana 7 December 2016 Wednesday. The students who join in this study have been studying in high school in Seyhan district of Adana. The name of high school is Final. It's a private school which as 378 students 22 teachers 1 of them are EFL teachers and 3 classrooms. School has one building. Classrooms has one interactive whiteboard, one board, 11 desk. There were 20 students studying in these classrooms. Desks were wooden but class status was good. I went to this school in the morning for my observation. I joined two lesson of 9th grade students. 20 students participated in this study. They are generally 15 years old. They are learning English as a foreign language for 8 years. Students have 8 lesson in a week and each of them is 40 minutes. Students come to school in morning and they eat their lunch in the noon. In Afternoon they enter lesson again. They study English 13 hours in a week. They don't speak English in the lesson. Although sometimes teacher speak English with students, Students don't talk each other with English. They are Preparing for YGS and LYS exams.(Which exams are students have to enter for study University). They will enter this exams after 3