Learning Media Glossary (Clive Shephard)

An interactive whiteboard is a writing surface which can capture writing electronically with the aid of a computer. Some interactive whiteboards also allow interaction with a projected computer image.

Email is the classic means for asynchronous online communication. Emails used to be constrained to plain text, but can now be formatted using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), allowing emails to have much of the functionality of web pages. Any type of digital file can be appended to an email as an attachment. Emails have obvious applications for tutor-learner and learner-learner contact.