Technology Integration Specialist

Get Inspired

JOIN the SMART Board Tips and Tricks special interest group in IDEAL. Go to Collaboration, choose special interest groups, and look for SMART Board Tips and Tricks. Blog and discuss SMART Boards with educators throughout the county and eventually, across the state.

Links to other resources

Videos:

• http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=22ae77246d592fe4f6d7 - See the board used in a kindergarten classroom.
• http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=589649628af6869b44c8 - See the board used in a 9th grade classroom.
• http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/2008/03/smart-boards--5.html - Watch as a 4th graders adds fractions with unlike denominators using SMART visuals.

SMART Specific Websites:

• http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2008_01_01_archive.html - A Google Presentation of 33 Interesting Ways (and Tips) for using an interactive board. Look around this site - it's a blog all about interactive whiteboards!

Other Useful Websites:

http://notian.net/litebrite/ - Project this simulated LiteBrite onto the SMART Board.

http://befuddlr.com - Mix up pictures for students to put right again. Use their pictures or upload your own to go along with themes/topics you're teaching.

Multiplication with Arrays - This lesson was created for a second grade classroom. I entered it in the CCS "RAISE YOUR VOICE" Curriculum Contest 2008 and was a semi-finalist. Congratulations to Annette Rothman from Park Elementary in Holbrook who won in the K-3 category! Please note: The Mathica video was downloaded from Discovery Education Streaming. Users of this lesson will need to download the video directly from Discovery Streaming and create a link from the appropriate slide.

The Amazing Color Changing Box - Annette Rothman's (Holbrook) winning lesson for the VOICE competition held by CCS. This lesson is amazing! The kids will really believe you are magical when you "blend" (overlap) red and yellow together to create orange. Then, when you put two colors into the amazing box and pull out the color it makes, they are truely amazed! I know I was!

Real or Fantasy - Students explore the concepts of Real and Fantasy with synonyms, dinosaurs, a virtual fieldtrip to the Arizona Museum of Natural History, and a whole class writing activity. (Elementary) Please note: Danny and the Dinosaur movie and dinosaur audio clips are from Discovery Streaming.

SMART Board Basics  

Session 1

Homework:

1. Download SMART Notebook from www.smarttech.com. You'll need the serial number.
2. Finish the handout if you didn't have time in class.
3. Jot down questions you have throughout the two week interim.
4. Decide on a topic for your first SMART Board lesson. Explore the websites I gave you and/or google for online resources. Come to class with these and two "regular" teacher resources to help you teach your topic.

View these videos to REVIEW what we learned in class.

• http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=be74748bb02907c2409d - Jim shows the functions of the icons on the toolbar.
• http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=66b8fe9be8a7fe2ee006 and/or http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0fbf31dc7b9abf72a975 - Both of these videos demonstrate the use of a SMART Board. Each one shows a few other features than the ones we learned in class as well.

THE HANDOUT - Click this link to view a digital copy of the handout, so you can utilize the links instead of typing all of the resource URLs.

SMART Board Beyond the Basics

If you need to REVIEW using Notebook and/or the SMART Board, see the links above in the BASICS review.

Session 1

Homework:

1. Download SMART Notebook from www.smarttech.com. You will need the serial number.
2. Decide on the topic for your first SMART Board lesson.
3. Think about (and record) the ways you taught these standards/this topic before SMART Board (BSB).
4. Gather materials and resources you already have to teach this topic.
5. Search online for additional resources, other people's SMART Board lessons, Interactive websites, movies, sounds, etc.
6. Jot down any questions you have during the two week interim.
7. Listen to at least one episode of the SMART Board Lessons podcast at www.pdtogo.com. Be ready to discuss what you learned.

THE HANDOUT - Click this link to view a digital copy of the handout, so you can click the resource links instead of typing the URLs.