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Helpful hints

Old technology
If you have an old pull down projector screen gathering dust, install it over your whiteboard. The surface will be less reflective and if you want to add your own notes during a PowerPoint presentation you can let the screen up and draw directly on to your whiteboard, adding your own annotation to the PowerPoint images.
New technology
You may find using the teacher presentation more convenient and powerful if you have them on your own laptop rather than relying on a Network installation. Consider the option of connecting to a large plasma or LCD TV or even a touch-screen rather than projecting onto a whiteboard or interactive whiteboard. It may be cost effective, have no bulb replacement costs, give a clearer image and you can even use it as a TV.

There are some iphone or android apps that will allow your students to view our vle network versions on their smartphones or ipads.
The tasks and vocabulary slides
Use these to finish your lesson or recap at the start of the next. Changing or inserting a task to suit your students might be the first change you make.
Good answers
Use the tasks slide to add an example of a good answer structure and use this to help deliver literacy skills.
Structuring your Lesson
Look at how the Lesson Box presentations have been broken down into lesson units, use an integrated starter task to settle the students then discussion points or built in activity, combine this with a text book exercise before returning to the presentation for a recap.
Classroom Arrangement
Look at the desk arrangement in your classroom. If you create some space around the projection area it will give all your students a clearer view of the whiteboard and help you draw all students into your lesson.
Too much of a good thing
Review the presentations before you use them, choose the unit or group of slides needed for the lesson or to explain a particular point. Introduce a topic then move on to the discussions or lesson Box activities. Use these presentations to compliment the best of your usual teaching repertoire.