Smart Teachers Smartboards

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Smart Teachers Smartboards

• Tips for Teachers
• Nancy Caramanico
• October, 2005

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Agenda

• Functions
• Orienting the Board, Board Tools
• Purpose in Education
• Ways to Use the Board
• Great Interactive Websites
• Creative Notebook Software
• Interactive PowerPoint
• Resources

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What is a Smartboard

• An interactive board that is connected to
  computer and a projector
• It is touch sensitive
• We can write on it, use the notebook software and
  save images created with the board onto a
  computer.

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Suited for education

• On the spot use that is digital, ever evolving
  and fun to use.
• Students are engaged as they are interacting with
  the board and class content. They have grown up
  digital.
• Interactive-Students and teachers can interact
  with the digital content and save their work.

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Why Interactivity?

• Supports engaged learning
• Choices
• Timing
• Collaborating
• Constructivism
• When students are engaged..
• They learn more effectively

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Ways to Use the Smartboard

• Great Interactive Websites
• Creative Notebook Software
• Interactive PowerPoint
• Concept Mapping, Internet and More

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Interactive Websites

• Art
• Timeline of Art History
• http//www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
• Science
• Science Optics and You
• http//micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials/index
  .html
• Cell
• http//www.johnkyrk.com/
• Build a Beast
• http//dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/build/
  jigsaw.html

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Interactive Sites

• Science-Continued
• Earth Observatory-NASA
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images_index.php3?page1
• History
• Terra Server
• http//terraserver.microsoft.com/
• Google Earth
• http//earth.google.com/download-earth.html
• Language Sites
• http//www.phschool.com/atschool/paso/
• http//www.quia.com/shared/

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Interactive Websites

• English
• Todays Front Pages
• http//www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
• Literature-Edgar Allen Poe
• Knowing Poe
• http//knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/
• The Raven Interactive
• http//www.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/start-fl.
  html
• Drama Map
• http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/dramamap/
• Persuasion Tool
• http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion
  _map/
• Math
• http//www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ind
  ex.htmlfun
• http//www.nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/index.html

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Notebook Activities

• Parts of the Brain
• Operation Normandy
• Halloween

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Smartboard Links

• Smarttech Lessons
• http//education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/EdResour
  ce/
• Edcompass
• http//edcompass.smarttech.com/ec/en-us/
• Sample Templates
• http//www.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/templates.ht
  mhigh
• Smartboard Tutorials
• http//www.smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.
  asp

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Enjoy Using the Smartboard

• Thank You
• Nancy Caramanico
• ncara_at_comcast.net
• Instructional Technology Specialist
• Cara Tec, LLC
• http//teacherweb.com/PA/Delco/NCaramanico/t.stm