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 Obe Hostetter on -
I would also add the SMARTBoard Revolution Ning to your SMARTBoard list. This is a network of over 2000 SMARTBoard users sharing ideas, files, websites, and tips. Check it out at http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com
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Permalink Reply by Marcia Jeans on -
Wichita Public Schools has a wonderful website loaded with hundreds of teacher created SMART Notebook lessons. Check it out at http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm .
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Permalink Reply by Cassie Herd on -
I love using my smartboard! I use it all day long in all of my subjects. My first graders really love it when I let them pick their own activities on the smartboard at center time. They choose the interactive games most of the time. They are also just fascinated by writing and drawing with it. It adds so much to my lessons.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Pennington on -
RE: SmartBoards for proofreading practice... Here are 10 tips for proofreading and some really fun exercises that will help writers catch their own mistakes-even spelling errors! See if you can catch all of the errors at Top 10 Proofreading Tips without using these tips. I'll wager that you can't. These proofreading tips will make a difference in your own writing and in that of your students.
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Permalink Reply by Donnie Smith on -
Wow! We have some awesome teachers on here. Thanks for all of the tips. Keep them coming and keep on keeping on. Donnie Smith
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Permalink Reply by Flora Vgontza on -
Thank you dear colleagues for these links... I really appreciate it!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Adele Fielding on -
I had a Promethean ActivBoard in North Carolina for two years, and I used it to make flip charts for Algebra 2 and Geometry, Calculus and IB HL math. I loved it. (Recently relocated to Brisbane Australia, so looking for a job, and aparently Smartboard more commonly available, so I will be interested in getting the SmartBoard software and learning to make flipcharts with Smart). Lots of good flipcharts available for downloading from "Promethean Planet".
As well as interactive demonstrations to illustrate concepts (eg inequalities, check points on each side of the line - I like the opportunity to be creative), also had the examples prepared, and used camera tool to have homework exercises up on the board (and included some illustrations), with space for students to come to the board and complete any homework difficulties. Any students who were absent, can come in later, and the worked exercises are still available. Can also print of particular "pages". Saves a lot of time. Also, when I assessed my own teaching, if I found deficiencies, I could add to the flip chart, to make the "teaching" improved for next time. Kept a good record of what worked, and what didn't, for that particular group of students, ready for the next time teaching same topics.
The board is always on, can link to sites, can use camera tool for "real world applications", can link to video captions (discovery education).
The sadest think about relocating, was having to leave my ActivBoard behind :-(
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Permalink Reply by Nick Petrarca on
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I do not currently have a smartboard in my classroom, but I do have access to one in other classrooms. I am new to the smartboard technology. I have read several replys on this discussion. I am looking for some basic pointers to get my students involved with me using the smartboard in class. i am an elementary health teacher.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Hoffman on
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We are lucky to have smartboards at our school but the biggest problem is that we have 2 smartboards (older), 1 promethean board and 10 interwrite boards-and it seems all with a different interface. The biggest plus with the interwrite boards is that they are wireless. Does anyone else have this issue at their school? If so, how have you integrated the different systems so they are used more frequently? Any thoughts....
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Permalink Reply by Buzz Garwood on
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I have a SMART board and the Mimio interactive whiteboard in my classroom. I love the tactile feel of the SMART board and the flash based templates, but our district went with the Mimio solution, mainly because they were cheaper. The SMART board has evolved into an expensive "center" activity. Over the last year, I've come to really appreciate interactive white boards, regardless of the brand. As a teaching resource, I have to say I can never go back to a plain old whiteboard again. The most effective way I use it now is with a wireless slate/pad/(whatever you want to call it)-- so I can literally stand anywhere in the classroom and instruct from there. I used to stand in front of the board all the time. Now, I just have my students approach the board while I direct from either the back or side of the classroom. Sometimes, I'll just plop down in an absent student's desk and facilitate from there. I hardly ever write on it anymore directly - 90% of my interaction is either from the computer itself or the wireless pad. It's totally changed the way I teach (for the better). I discuss this kind of stuff now and then on my blog. I also published an article recently for Ed Tech Magazine on the topic, if you're interested, called Make the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Holshoe on
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I have an ELMO TT-02RX and LCD Projector in my class. I made my own "smartboard" using a wiimote and an ir led pen that I made. I also want resources to use with my board. There are tons of great sites out there but you need to spend a lot of time to find them. So, I created my own website that puts them all in one spot by grade level. K-5. Check out Johnny Lee at Ted. Johnny Lee Video
Check out my site. mrholshoe.com
Let me know what you think.
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Permalink Reply by Joanne Kaminski on -
Are you able to do your read-alouds using this resource yet. I have found a really great resource called PowerPoint books. Check it out when you have a chance.
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