Whole School Change via IWB

The ActivBoard Pioneers were lucky enough to get some more advanced training from Commander's new trainer based in Melbourne. She came out and gave pairs of teachers some new technical skills to improve their own repertoire - embedding video, layering etc. We also had our first initial touch base meeting with our Flinders University contact who will work with us in acion research to produce a case study of our IWB journey. The key to this research seems to be the question, "Can interactive whiteboards assist in whole school change for learners and pedagogy?" I may not have worded that correctly but the gist of it all is that there is quite a bit of evidence and research that showcases the improvement in individual teacher's skills and documentation on individual class achievement but the whole school improvement could be unchartered waters, particularly here in Australia. There is also the point of IWB's being promoted as a teaching tool by their vendors and some schools (which is certainly important) but is there potential for this technology to become a learning tool for students as well? I am really looking forward to this research study and accessing expertise that I certainly don't have and getting an outside perspective of what my school is trying to achieve and how we can measure that achievement. Exciting times ahead.