How are you using your classroom smartboard?

Any teachers out there have smartboards ? How are you using it? Do you find it helpful as a teaching resource?

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Permalink Reply by Connie Weber on September 12, 2007 at 5:06pm

I have a Smartboard. You know, it has a million bells and whistles but I find the main use of it is being on and available and at the center of the classroom all day long. It's a public computer for the class. It's a projected, large-sized computer screen. We can share our thinking. We can share our explorations. Knowledge accelerates so fast in an open group format. It's just "on" and in use. It's a way we can search and learn together. We look things up all the time, anytime. It's reachable at the keyboard with the mouse or by standing in front of it and touching the screen. Perfect. I wouldn't , couldn't give it up.

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Permalink Reply by Konstantin Dimitrakakis on November 30, 2009 at 2:51pm

Hi, at this time I am trying write down some guidelines for my teachers about smart board,e.x. what is, how can I use it, some paradigms, e.t.c. Is it possible to have help? Many thanks

Konstantin

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Permalink Reply by Michael Adam Tromblee on November 9, 2010 at 4:57pm

It is key to take the tool out of the teachers hand. The Smartboard, to be effective must engage the students. I suggest that my teachers use it as a station when creating a learning activity.

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Permalink Reply by Allyson Bartley on January 9, 2009 at 6:52pm

What a great Maths game! Can you recommend other sites for me to browse through to get a few more games from. The ones you use a lot for the interactive whiteboard would be great. Thanks!!

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Permalink Reply by Konstantin Dimitrakakis on November 30, 2009 at 11:20pm

Many thanks Wade Welch.Do you know if there is text - like artickar - about smartboard, I mean text about the pedagogigal dimension using smart board? Konstantin

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Permalink Reply by jcalvert on September 12, 2007 at 7:24pm

Hi Rich,

That's a big question! Our district is lucky enough to have a SMARTboard in every classroom k-6 and in all of the math, science, and social studies rooms. Like Connie and Wade said, it's a great tool to knock down the walls of your classroom and use web-based and application-based resources for small or whole group instruction. You can apply multi-modal approaches to your lessons; seamlessly integrating video (Powermedia Plus, Front Line, United Streaming, Nova, McNeil News Hour, and so many more.) and interactive websites (just too many to mention.)

Click here and you'll be taken to the SMARTboard category on my blog. I've got a few posts about the way we use the board in our elementary grades. If you narrow your question to subject or grade level, I bet we could be even more helpful!

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Permalink Reply by Colleen McLain on September 13, 2007 at 5:24pm

We have SMART Boards in all our classrooms K-12. We are very fortunate and love them! I agree with what everyone has stated so far in the interaction it allows to the real world. For our city kids, and I'm sure your kids as well, even the use of searched images offered vocabulary development, builds background knowledge, and in essence allow the kids to virtually go on a field trip. Here are a few of the resources I've put together to support our district teachers - http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/templates.htm for teacher developed templates at various grade levels; http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/resources/SBsites.htm is just a collection of interactive sites more geared toward instruction; http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/ideas.htm are just a few ideas in getting started. Be sure to check out SMART's lessons as well - very interactive and very cool! http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activit...

Other ideas we encourage - adding your own audio with Audacity; showing video using the SMART Player so you can pause and annotate on the video then capture to Notebook; using Notebook to develop your lessons - allows for embedding of images, video, scanned documents, etc for a smoother flow of your lesson; capturing PowerPoint, Word, etc into Notebook for an interactive interface; document cameras for peer editing, displaying of exemplar examples of writing, student collaboration, etc.

Good luck and have fun!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Greg Noack on September 13, 2007 at 8:51pm

I don't have a smart board, yet, but our district is starting to invest in them. One thing I have seen a teacher do that I thought had amazing potential for student learning, was to post some of the work they had done in class on a blog, so students could go home a review what they had talked about in class when doing homework! Awesome!

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Hawkins on October 5, 2007 at 8:56am

Greg, be sure to have your district look at the Promethean Active Boards. We just purchased 8 of them. We went to a Smart Board training, and then had the Promethean folks come out for a demo. BIG DIFFERENCE!! The Promethean Boards have THOUSANDS of pre-made lessons and flip charts!! Really cool, easy to learn, and the kids love them.
Barb Hawkins

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Permalink Reply by Regina Peyfuss on December 10, 2007 at 9:19pm

What is the cost of Promethean Active Boards?

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Permalink Reply by Brian on December 10, 2007 at 9:33pm

Our district just bought 85 of them (Promethean), and the learning curve already is noticed (for the good). I have some pictures of usage on my blog to show what we've done. Talk about a behavior management diamond in the rough! We love them!