SMART Board Training

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Permalink Reply by Kacey on December 2, 2008 at 12:03pm

We offer a 10 hour session that covers just the basics for beginners in the county I work. Look at the training materials on the smarttech website. They have modules there that will get you started. The 2 minute tutorials are great for after you leave and teachers need to review what you have demonstrated. Look under free materials. http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/

How long will you be training?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wacker on December 2, 2008 at 2:19pm

I'm assuming it'll be an hour or so, they've been pretty vague about the expectations. Thanks for the link, I saw that, but I think some of it may have been covered by the guy who installed the boards. I'm thinking more along uses in primary and intermediate.
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Alisa Eller on December 2, 2008 at 12:29pm

Always allow teachers to touch the board, this allows teachers to overcome fears they have about the technology. Use different tools to touch with, tennis balls, paintbrushes, pointer fingers (mine came for Scholastic). The touch of your finger isn't the only way to go.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wacker on December 2, 2008 at 2:20pm

Great idea! What about designing the lessons, ideas on how to teach that?

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Klein on December 2, 2008 at 3:35pm

Best way that I can think of is to download example lessons that are correlated to state standards from the SMART Education website, http://education.smarttech.com/ste/enUS/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activiti...

Also, you can show them the free SMART Exchange where there is a Colorado User's Group as well:
http://exchange.smarttech.com

chris

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wacker on December 2, 2008 at 9:29pm

That's AWESOME thanks, so much!

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Permalink Reply by Carrie on December 2, 2008 at 4:03pm

Hi Michael,

I am the Educational Consultant for SMART in Colorado. I would be happy to share some of my resources with you and help you prepare for your upcoming training session. Please feel free to email me and we can set up a time to chat.

carrierigneysmarttech@smarttech.com

Hope to here from you.

Carrie Rigney
Education Consultant~Colorado

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Permalink Reply by Michael Wacker on December 2, 2008 at 9:44pm

Thanks Carrie, I'm emailing you now.

btw---everyone, what are the best SMART sites?
I have these...check em' out...but are there more?

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses.html
http://whiteboardchallenge.wikispaces.com/
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=363
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
http://drawminos.com/
http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/index.html
http://edusim3d.com/alpha/
http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/
http://www.interactivewhiteboard.net.au/
http://www.mathplayground.com/
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
http://quakertown.wikispaces.com/SMART+Technology
http://www.smart-education.org/?p=browse&cat=1&mat=1&se...
http://whiteboardchallenge.wikispaces.com/
http://community.teqsmart.org/news.php

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Permalink Reply by Eleanor on December 2, 2008 at 11:39pm

SMART board revolution ning

SMART TECHNOLOGY SITES

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Permalink Reply by JShy on December 3, 2008 at 7:29am

Before you "guess" what the participants know or don't know, why don't you have your teachers either fill out a "skills checklist" that you create (or maybe find one online somewhere) or ask for volunteers to come up and "Show and Tell" what they know. That way you aren't wasting their time or yours and you can fill in the gaps. I also think you need to stress that a SB isn't a wide screen TV or a huge screen to view scanned documents. Many teachers, when they first use a SB tend to use it that way and get stuck there. Showing them what is in the gallery will help get them over that hump. One more thing, make sure to show them how to update their software and upload ALL of the gallery items.

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