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Christopher Klein
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Christopher Klein replied to Alan Davies's discussion 'Making Drag and Drop activities for Interactive White Board'
If you are using a SMARTBoard, you should check out the Lesson Activity Toolkit offerings in the Gallery.
Chris (from SMART)
Christopher Klein replied to Georgiann Andersen's discussion 'Classroom Management Software??'
Mike, you don't happen to work for the company, do you? Please identify if you do as this is a forum for teachers and educators, vendors should identify when they are "pitching".
Christopher Klein replied to Leigh Newton's discussion 'SmartBoard or Promethean'
Leigh,
Chris here from SMART.
One of the new offerings you and others might be interested in is SMART's new web-version of our software, SMART Notebook Express.
This software will allow you to open, use any SMART Notebook file (from the SMART…
Christopher Klein replied to John's discussion 'Eno Interactive Whiteboard by PolyVision - Anyone Have One?'
Ian, there have been many issues in the past of Vendors/representatives not clearly identifying themselves when responding to posts. As such many teachers got frustrated by marketing speak and potentially biased views on product endorsements, etc.…
Christopher Klein replied to Scott Mies's discussion 'Questions on Technology in My Classroom'
Just want to clarify a couple of things that Gina mentioned the Promethean person (her best friend) said.
1. SMARTboard must pay to get into their database of lessons.
Not true, http://exchange.smarttech.com Completely free to access, must setup a…
Christopher Klein replied to Nathan Ketsdever's discussion 'A diatribe against power point in the classroom: what say you????'
I think the crux of the issue lies not with the software, but with the teaching style/approach of the instructor. K-12 or Higher Ed, there are teachers that do not want to interact with their students. For them Powerpoint is a very good tool. It is…
Christopher Klein replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
Ahh Mike, here we go again:)
Okay. The funny thing is that at the core, we are both agreeing on the same thing. Whatever technology goes into the classroom it should be effective and transformative. "Doing technology" for the sake of…
Christopher Klein replied to Mike's discussion 'Are interactive whiteboards necessary?'
Mike, while it is tempting to follow down the rabbit-hole of advancing technology vs minimizing cost, just remember that much of what IS done by the majority of teachers with technology is still not very relevant, meaningful or transformative. We…
Profile Information
- School / Work Affiliation
- SMART Technologies
- Website
- http://www.smarttech.com
- About Me
- I am a former educator at the Middle School/High School/College level, I also was a Technology Coordinator for 6 years. I am now employed by SMART Technologies as the company's Macintosh Specialist/Education Consultant. I consider myself always to be a Digital Activist.
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 6:07am on May 8, 2009,
Debbie Wilson said… - Thanks Chris! I thought as much. Like anything else it depends on the user and how they implement the tool. Thanks so much for responding. We do have one Smart Board in our school and a large number of the Airliner Slates. I do like the Smart Board. Recently, some of our teachers were introduced to the Promethean Board as the one to get so I just thought I'd get some input from others who are using them.
- At 8:04am on April 1, 2009,
Leigh Newton said… - That's a stunning piece of machinery. (Smart Table) I would love to see little kids having access to that. I'll post it over to the discussion.
- At 6:46pm on December 28, 2008,
Jack said… - Hi Chris!
Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from MIssouri.
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 12:13pm on December 26, 2008,
marcotuts said… - Hi,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
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