Hi Tami! Smartboards are a great way to get students engaged with their learning and provides them with an interactive and somewhat hands-on approach. They can be used in small group or as a whole class, and pretty much as long as you can think of something it can be done on a smartboard. It is touch-sensitive and you can access everything you need from the board itself, rather than having to run back and forth to the computer. It has virtual markers and erasers, a recorder so you can capture on-screen actions, for example, write out and solve a math problem, then play it back to give students step by step instruction, and it also has handwriting recognition which allows you to turn it into text which can be printed, saved, e-mailed, etc. (You can save anything and everything that you do on a smartboard to your computer) One great website that has some pre-made smartboard lessons for many different subjects and grade levels is: http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm
Here are some other sites to learn more about it: www.smarttech.com http://www.smarttech.com/services/training/10minute.asp I will keep looking for websites? hope this helped! Brie Message: 15 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:42:20 +1100 From: "Tami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MOSAIC] smartboards To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I am getting a smartboard for my classroom this month and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with them or any websites they could recommend. Thanks, Tami _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
