If you would like to learn about using the Smartboard in your classroom you should check out the website teachingwithsmartboard.com. There are 75+ episodes each with 15 to 20 minutes of using the Smartboard in the classroom. Also, there is a book called "Easy Smartboard Teaching Templates" that you can check out there as well. The book goes into great detail how you can use the "free" templates on the website and begin making interactive lessons for your students in minutes.
Hi Harvey,
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am a middle school language arts teacher and I was able to find the SMART exchange page from you posting. I am pioneering with a SMART board on wheels in my classroom with minimal support so this is great.
Download a free gallery collection file for your SMARTBoard. There are pre-made graphs that you can slide into any lesson with ease. Graphs include standard rectangle graphs, polar graphs, trig graphs, number lines, and special colored graphs.
There are several websites that have French Notebook files or websites that work great on the SMARTBoard. Here is the list that I have collected. If anyone has more to add, please add them so everyone can benefit.
But many advocates of this technology (myself included), see IWBs as genuine means of bringing more interactivity, more student-focus into classrooms of traditional teachers
What we don't want to forget is that someone who is coaching a teacher is not really looking for "good technology use" but for just good educational practices. Having an IWB is not going to change a lecturer into something else.
Any item in the Instruction domain can be enhanced using an IWB.
just because a teacher has an IWB doesn't mean it has to be used every minute of the day. And yes, a teacher can create truly interactive lessons without using any technology whatsoever.
use the SmartNotebook software that works with the hardware to organize materials, to find and share lessons, and to seamlessly blend multimedia into lessons.
While popular (2007, 2010, interactive white boards (IWBs) are controversial even (or especially) among technology enthusiasts. The major complaint is that the use of these devices reinforces the "sage on the stage" teaching methodology. "The IWB is little more than a fancy overhead projector and its touch sensitive screen is only used to save the teacher a couple steps back to the computer to change a slide."
Blog post that articulates some of the best practices for incorporating an interactive white board (IWB), like a SMART Board, into your classroom in meaningful and instructionally sound ways.
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http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths