Research shows that teachers today need to compete with big screen tvs, video games, and computers. It is not an easy task to attract and maintain students’ interest. An interactive board can encompass many technologies! How do we get interactive boards in our classrooms’ during this time of budget cuts?

Through the use of Johnny Chung Lee’s Wiimote project, Wiimotes can connect to a computer and track an LED light source.  What does this mean? By using the software we already have installed on our computers, we can turn normal white screens into interactive boards, smartboards! This set up is inexpensive, and it allows us to use the tools we already have at our disposal (i.e. computer, projector, Wiimote, and lED pen) to turn all of our classrooms up to speed with today’s technology.

This process is simple, a Wiimote is connected to a computer via bluetooth (a short distance wireless connection). It then tracks a LED light source. The LED pen is used as a mouse that can control the computer. This results is an interactive board for under 100 dollars compared to the $4,000 price tag of a Promeathen board (The type of interactive board we use in Danbury.).