Table 4

Students' use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs)

Multimodal layersData nExamples
Technologies – hardwareIWBs: 4IWBs: SMARTboard, Camtasia
Technologies – softwareUnnamed: 7Documents, notebooks, websites
Technologies' functional propertiesPrimary function: 2Primary: writing/drawing function, recording
Secondary function: 2Secondary: manipulating objects, hiding and revealing content
Tertiary function: 2Tertiary: drawing on board, linking and annotating photos/text, displaying and communicating
Technologies' semiotic properties3Typographic elements
Modes of representationGestures: 4Gestures: pointing, dragging objects
Auditory: 4Auditory: talking
Visual: 3Visual: drawings, diagrams, images
Linguistic: 3Linguistic: writing, annotating words
Multiplicity of modes: 1Multiplicity of modes: combination of auditory-visual-gestures
ActivitiesSTEM: 2STEM: mathematical and science content
Literacy: 2Literacy: annotating/discussing/producing text
Collaboration: 2Collaboration: discussions

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