I’ve ranted on this topic many times before, but the point still needs to be made that, even before all our recent financial problems, IWBs (interactive whiteboards) were a bad use of technology funds. 

Not to mention tools that encourage bad instructional practices. 

So, are IWB’s past their prime?  You could say that.
But I’m not sure they ever should have had prime space in school budgets in the first place.

IWBs certainly have enjoyed controversy. For the technorati, it is a wasted technology. For those districts with top-down leadership wanting to make a dramatic investment, it is one way to say, “We are enhancing learning environments with technology.”