Detailed description (and video) of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds. The blogger had created a wordle and covered up the words with with rectangles. Students came to the SMARTBoard one at a time to touch the rectangle and reveal a word. Then they used a spinner to tell them to use the word in a sentence, tell how many syllables, or give a synonym or antonym. The rectangles were colour coded by degree of difficulty so the teacher could differentiate instruction. You can download the Notebook file, and the blogger promises a tutorial for this idea.
SMARTBoard guru James Hollis highly recommended this collection of SMARTBoard lessons by a South Carolina teacher, crashing her website in the process. But if you can get on, its' definitely worth it.
These are SMARTBoard educational consultant Jaimie Ashton's delicious links for SMARTBoards. Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
A wall of reasons why teachers love smartboards. I would like to help school administrators better understand why teachers love using SMART Boards in the classroom. The more informed they are about the benefits of having a SMART Board in the classroom, the more likely they are to move closer to putting more SMART Boards in the classroom.
This is a Ning Social Network all around SMARTBoards. Great resource collection and sharing potential. All smart board educators, unite Let's share ideas, tips, and lesson files maximize learning children They our future Let's teach them well and let them...something other can't think anything right now.
Thanks for this post, Jim. This looks like a great assortment of instant video tutorials. I watched the fossil lesson and found it quite entertaining. It was set up as a quest where you had to learn about fossils in the hall of knowledge before earning the right to visit different geological regions.
Excellent site with online math manipulatives. Would be great on the SMARTBoard. A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics
This wiki was created by a Cowichan teacher, Elaine Nessman, to host primary resources for the SMARTBoards. Includes Notebook lessons and links to her Delicious site.
Nice description and photos of how one teacher is using the Picture Word Induction Method in her primary classroom. PWIM posters have long been used in my district and a few teachers are beginning to use them on a SMARTBoard but I haven't seen anything written up.