The purpose of this blog is to serve as a practice exercise for EDM 510- Microcomputing Systems in Education.
My class is so excited about our new Smartboard! We would like to know how other students and teachers use their Smartboard in the classroom. What are your favorite things about the smartboard? What are some great reading and math links? If you do not have a Smartboard, let us know the reasons why you would want one.
I have taken the tutorials, but do not have access to a smartboard since I teach everything online. However, I think every classroom should have one and teachers should be given incentives to develop lesson plans that incorporate their use. Swilson
ReplyDeleteOur school is now fully equipped with boards, including our media center. The lessons are very easy to create and the students love them. The teachers at my school are learning how to develop lesson plans using Smart technology and we are given numerous professional development opportunities to increase our knowledge of the notebook software!
ReplyDeleteI love finding new SmartBoard lessons. For Reading I really like the website http://www.scottsboro.org/~flewis/ which contains powerpoints that coninside with Reading Street lessons. I like to take these powerpoints and print them to Smart Notebook and then add some other Smart Board activities that go along with the lessons. I don't really have favorite websites where I find SmartBoard lessons. We love to play math games that come from a variety of different websites that reinforce math skills and objectives. We usually create our own Smart Math lessons.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love my SmartBoard and do not know how I survived without one! We typically search for lessons already made on the internet or make our own. Often times the ones on the internet need to be altered a little, but sometimes we can find really great ones! I also love to find math games that pertain to the skill at hand. The students really love to do that!
ReplyDeleteFirst, I try to search for SmartBoard lessons that are already available. I like http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/ You can search this sight by curriculum standards, grade level, or subject. My students like spellingcity.com and multiplication.com. If you use Reading Street, you have to check out http://classroom.jc-schools.net/waltkek/
ReplyDeleteWe love to use spellingcity to review the weeks spelling words and also in place of a weekly assessment. I also use the last website you mentioned that goes along with Reading Street. Great ideas!Another great tool is using the gallery to find already made plans. Instead of reinventing the wheel, you can go and find lessons that have already been created. These lessons can be altered and saved to fit your classroom needs.
ReplyDeleteSmartboards are awesome! I didn't get mine up and running until close to the end of the school year so I don't really have any sites to share. It is a great tool for students to interact and have fun while learning. My students love it too!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a smartboard in my class, but they are great to have. One of the graduate classes I took in the spring had a smartboard, and it was great. This year I will have a couple of health classes that I am teaching, so hopefully I will have a smartboard use for many educational purposes.
ReplyDeleteIt is so funny that everyone can teach just fine without a smartboard- then you get one in your classroom, it is a whole new world! If for some reason internet is down or a bulb is out, you wonder how you ever taught without a smartboard!
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