Necessary Whiteboard Accessories

So you finally got that whiteboard you’ve been campaigning for; it has arrived but how do you ensure you get the most use out of it? Make sure you have all the necessary whiteboard accessories at hand to optimise its usage.

You may consider making your whiteboard mobile rather than fixed to ensure that it is available to many to share rather than to one single, elite user. If your whiteboard is fixed you may consider adding wheels or castors to your list of whiteboard accessories. In this way you can share the love and ensure it is available to all and sundry. A whiteboard accessory of sorts is the electronic whiteboard that allows you to print out and thereby capture your brainstorming in hardcopy before the cleaner accidentally wipes it off. In some of the fancier whiteboards you can even save data softcopy onto a data stick in which case you need to be sure to add a data stick to your list of whiteboard accessories.

But whether your whiteboard lives in a high powered office, a classroom or even a home study, you need to ensure that you have the right accessories to complement your purchase. Whiteboard accessories, like many other stationary purchases, allowsyou to not only increase your productivity and efficiency but also express yourself just a little.

Of course number one whiteboard accessory is your whiteboard marker. You need to consider if you prefer thin tipped or broad tipped and what colour or colour combinations you are likely to require. Primary colours, pastels or fluoro? Whilst standard whiteboard markers are non-permanent you may have cause to use a permanent marker for fixed information.

Butchers paper clips and butchers paper itself are also very valuable whiteboard accessories especially in a learning environment. This allows the instructor to capture thoughts or answers from trainees and quickly remove them but still have them available to refer to later on or as many trainers would do, stick them up around the training room.

Magnets are also very useful whiteboard accessories. They can be simply decorative or can be functional in allowing you to temporarily stick or hang items of interest on your whiteboard. Magnetic buttons can be used to indicate volumes in say a chart or perhaps to indicate reward points in a classroom environment. Magnetic days and months also allow you to calendars on your whiteboard. A useful teaching tool in lower primary years is to also use magnetic numbers or letters to allow your students to arrange the numbers or letters as they see fit. The range of magnets is quite extensive and also includes magnetic tape for marking out lines on a whiteboard that you do not want erased.

You list of whiteboard accessories must of course include whiteboard cleaners. This could be a traditional rectangular whiteboard cleaner often made from felt inside a plastic casing or simply white board cleaning fluid and a cloth. Your rectangular type whiteboard cleaners conveniently come with magnetic holders so that you always know where you’re cleaner.