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Involves uninstalling newest version of Adobe and installing an earlier version.

This is a pretty cool hack. Just mirror your iPad to your SMARTBoard and then turn on the iPad camera. Voila, instant document camera with a lot more features than a regular document camera. Watch the video for a great science idea.

A great online version of "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader" recommended by James Hollis at Teachers Love Smartboards. Really fun to play with excellent graphics.

temaplates for Smartboards

Detailed description of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds.

Amazing spelling site recommended by James Hollis (Teachers Love SMARTBoards). Input a list of spelling words and click test me, teach me, or play a game. The test me section gives the word orally , uses it in a sentence, and the student spells it and gets feedback. The teach me section spells the word orally and uses it in a sentence. The play a game section instantly generates games such as word search, crosswords, hangman using the spelling words. The games work great on a smartboard.

Learned about this from Kathy Rice. Great interactive activities and downloadable worksheets. Excellent quality educationally and good graphics; would work well on SMARTBoard. Jan and Jim had also used and said that Character Cards was a favourite activity. The only drawback was that content was stored online.

Great graphing program within the Math is Fun suite...works great with smartboard and graphs can be converted from one type to another. You can input your own labels and values.

Suzanne Harwood found this database on which you can search 100 different websites for SMARTBoard resources.

This is a google file search tool that will find Notebook, powerpoint, word, Kidspiration, Inspiration, and PowerPoint files and templates.

A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world. Great for SMARTBoard

There are a handful of questions I can count on being asked at least once at every school in which I do instructional technology coaching. I'm sure many of you have the same issues, so I thought I'd share. Good solid advice for 1)showing YouTube videos, 2)mirroring iPads to SMARTBoards and 3)the best answer to the "must-have" apps question.

Ideas for importing text to wordle and using that text in a lesson to discover the "gist" of an article or poem.

Engineering Interact is a new and exciting free educational resource for primary school children aged 9 to 11. The resource provides fully interactive, engaging game environments and high-quality learning material tailored to the National Curriculum. Information about real world applications and cutting edge research motivates children and introduces them to the exciting subject of engineering. This resource has been created by the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, with a grant from the HEFCE Aspirations Fund and the University of Cambridge Active Community fund.

A blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education. There are some very simple activities described, such as the plenary circle, and also some very cool guru tricks.

A great division video for Grade 6 in BC.

This takes division to include a 4-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with remainder. It shows a traditional method of long division.

Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. These are great resources, mainly in math but there are a few language arts and one geography resource.

Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents." Recommended by Paul Hamilton March 2009 post.

Lots of virtual activities, eg: virtual crash scene - kids have to inspect the crash scene, learn about forces, interview witnesses, summarise and decide what happened.

This UK site has 400 activities available for purchase (99pence each) and 15 sample activities. Tried several and they were excellent!