Examination of the views of teachers and students on the usage of interactive boards

The purpose of this study is to examine the opinions of teachers and students about the usage of interactive board. The universe of the study is formed by teachers working and students studying in these schools, with interactive board in Akçakoca district centres and villages in Düzce province. 207 teachers and 1324 students contributed to the search, by answering the survey. Quantitative data were collected by using descriptive model at the research. A two-parted questionnaire was applied to teachers and students.In the first part, questions about demographic characteristics, and in the second part, five-point Likert type scale consisting of questions about the use of interactive boards by teachers and students was used. The data were analyzed by transferring to SPSS 21.00 Windows package program. It was tried to determine whether there was a significant difference between the demographic data obtained from the applied surveys and the values obtained from the application tools. As the data obtained from the normality test that applied to the applied measurement tools didn't show normal distribution, the Mann Whitney U test was used for the demographic data where there was the binary variable; Kruskal Wallis H test was applied to the data with more than two variables. The data obtained from the measurement tools of the research are discussed in five sub-dimensions. First dimension, "Advantages of interactive boards; second dimension, "attainment of interactive board" third dimension "technological structure of interactive boards, fourth dimension" data recording feature of interactive boards" as the fifth dimension "disadvantages of interactive boards" According to the results obtained from the teachers, there were no significant differences in terms of gender, period of service, educational institution and the term of interactive board usage in the courses on year basis; While the level of interactive board use level variable, interactive board attitude scale total score and the advantages of interactive board were found to be significant in the sub-dimension, it was not found in other dimensions. While the data obtained from the students vary with the scores of the interactive board attitude scale according to gender, interest in technology, type and level of school, TEOG score of the secondary education institutions; it doesn't differ according to variate of the settlement of school. Keywords: FATİH Project, Interactive whiteboard, Educational Technology