The website collects the data and puts it into a graph, where teachers can project their
answers on a smart board and discuss the answer choices with the class.
Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell
on a smart board in her classroom.
On a day in May 2013, her fifteen students were learning why spiders are not insects, and they eagerly competed to identify sight
words on a SMART Board.
Both my avatar and the home page of my website were
posted on the Smart Board to keep students» attention until they all settled in on the rug.
If there's time, demonstrate what needs to be done: Show how to complete a new district
form on the Smart Board or illustrate how to write learning intentions or success criteria in student - friendly language.
Chart Kindness - Instead of putting student names on the board for not paying attention or not finishing homework, make a
list on the smart board of students who show kindness toward others.
Ann Bonitatibus, associate superintendent of Maryland's Frederick County Public Schools, sounds a lot like Hockett, noting that principals will «spend a couple thousand
dollars on SMART Boards and then there won't be a teacher in the building trained to use one.
I can show it [interactive website] to
kids on the SMART Board in five minutes and get the kids really excited about it.
Putting up a twitterfall, for example, while the main presentation takes
place on the SMART Board (more on how I am using Twitter in the classroom in a future post).
This misuse also occurred when they
wrote on the SMART Board with a pen color that blended into the background color of the slide.
Typically, much of the teaching is done through the medium of print (textbooks, worksheets,
notes on the Smart Board), which puts students with vision impairments at a disadvantage.
Software connected to the devices can instantly calculate the percentage of the class answering questions correctly and can display that information graphically (such as with a pie chart) on a computer screen, on each student's device, or
even on a Smart Board in front of the class.
SMART boards come with the SMART Recorder, which allows you to record what is being
done on the SMART board, along with the presenter's voice (via the attached computer).
I would integrate my tablet by using it to showcase old history
documents on a SMART Board, use it as a wireless writing tablet, and download many history apps to help my students love history rather than find it old and dusty.
Last year, when my son came home from kindergarten, he would list excitedly all the screen time he'd enjoyed during the day — iPads for reading and math, YouTube videos for French and physical education,
movies on the Smart Board to entertain the class during lunch and often in place of last recess.
Producing Protractor Images Worksheets These measurement worksheets are great for handouts,
using on a smart board, or overhead projector where a protractor image is needed.
Fantasy Interview: When students enter the class, they choose a half sheet of colored paper with a set of instructions
displayed on the smart board.
Close your eyes if you feel comfortable doing so or find a spot on the floor in front of you to gently rest your gaze... Alternatively you can watch the image I'll be
projecting on the Smart Board... Quietly arrange your chair if needed to see the board...
We work together to deconstruct a common ad that I put up
on the Smart Board, finding as many of the techniques from the list above as we can.
After demonstrating the steps concurrently with my cube and
on the SMART Board, I simply facilitated.
Take a few pictures of them in action, show
them on your Smart board or overhead and have them identify the skills they themselves have been using.
Incorporate practice during read alouds, with big books,
on Smart Boards, and during small group reading instruction by thinking aloud (e.g. «Hmm, I don't know how to read this word.
Teacher should model how to draw to scale, using a large sheet of graph paper or
on a Smart Board or projector.
After a week a student (apparently they were all taking me at my word about wanting to learn from them) approached me and said, «Any chance we can use the TV as the main screen and then if we need to do that other stuff put
it on the SMART Board?»
And See / Think / Wonder can be done in so many different kinds of ways because it can be done with pictures that teachers cultivate from different resources and they put up
on a smart board, they project it on a promethean board, whatever it is.
Since my shorts are typically only 4 - 5 pages, or less, we would put them up
on the smart board and the kids would do line - by - line proofreading.