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Thanks to all for your responses. This hit focuses on the use of SMARTboards specifically for library instruction. I have edited responses to make this hit a little shorter. I also included a few things from the archives (now that they are back!) that deal with the use of this technology in the media center. Anne Corsetti Hommocks Middle School Larchmont, NY annecors@optonline.net I use the SmartBoard to teach the OPAC, database use, and Internet searching. Occasionally we do web activities, such as Bemebo's Zoo, Animals Should Definitely Not Borrow Library Books or author websites. So far I have mostly used mine to do lessons that involve websites on the internet that I am using for teaching. The 4th and 5th graders loved to use it to play games, such as I Spy on Scholastic.com. The younger kids (Kinder and 1st) enjoyed doing puzzles, games, etc. I've recently had a smartboard installed and I just love it. It is SO much easier than having a crowd of kids elbowing each other for space around a computer screen. I use it for lots of things such as: *how to use the online catalog *how to use databases (like SIRS Discoverer and Kids InfoBits) *how to use search engines *how to do internet research (difference between .org, .edu, .com , keywords, etc) *following webquests *using pathfinders I like to expose the kids to websites that go along with the stories we read - like author websites . I like to show websites that support the projects we do (like Heifer International's Read to Feed website or United Through Reading) . It's also fun to present library Jeopardy style games on Powerpoint to work on library skills. Of course, it's also a great way to do PowerPoint presentations - you can include hyperlinks to web content as well as Q & A formats, etc. I use a smart board in the media center for instruction a lot when doing orientation and research strategies. I like it because you can face the students and just tap the board to go to the next slide. It is also good when teaching Internet. I used my SmartBoard everyday! For Pre-schoolers I found interactive storytelling websites and used software that needed the interaction of their fingers to get to the bells and whistles. Kindergartners practiced writing their ABC's and numbers with their magic fingers. I made a powerpoint of "Goin on a Lion Hunt" to teach the parts of the library. This was so much fun that during October we did a similar chant to a Ghost Hunt. Sometimes the children took turns drawing parts of the story and we saved them in NoteBook. First Graders did KWL charts about whales that we saved for future use. We took notes as a class from books we looked at and finally created a class PowerPoint presentation. The keyboard feature made this a success for technology, cooperation and spelling. Second Graders created biography PowerPoints at the end of the year. I also took simple worksheet type activities and made them into NoteBook files that the kids could manipulate, i.e. sorting pictures of objects and words of objects to illustrate Dewey arrangement. Third Graders enjoyed moving words around to alphabetize them, moving sentences around to sequence, filling in story maps with the stylus and then magically transforming their writing into a keyboard font. I have the Promethean Activboard...don't think the files would open with SMART board. I absolutely love it. I do lots of interactive lessons. For example...two sections labeled Fiction and Non Fiction...list book characters, settings, and plots from various stories you have read with the children and let them "click and drag" them to the appropriate heading of Fiction or non-fiction (or with Kindergarten I call it Real and Not Real.) I have all my research lessons on the activboard, I have done lessons where questions are listed and the kids have to drag the question to the appropriate reference book listed ( dictionary, atlas, almanac, encyclopedia). I have a portable smartboard in my library and have used it (not enough) with my kids. You can certainly do OPAC search and Google lessons with it. I also do sequencing and author studies. I will be using one next year for the first time. I am planning on using it for map work as my theme for the year is Around the World in Books. FROM THE ARCHIVES We have four SmartBoards in our building. I have a large one in the library and it is used constantly. I've made my own program for arranging Dewey numbers and for practicing Alphabetizing.I also use the board for the web site Onemorestorey.com which reads to the students.At the end of a period if we have a few extra minutes, my primaries work in spelling and my intermediates often use a geography game. This fall I've been using a great website for parts of a book: http://www.emerson.k12.nj.us/staff/rmkelly/custom/mediacenter/Kids%20Corner/BookParts/BooksParts.html We also used it as a collaboration tool - I would tie in video clips, short information bits, and activitiesfor the students. For example, a lesson for kindergarten - the students and I talked about seasons.We watched a video clip. Then, we did different activities. The students had to put the season in order (dragging them). They had to sort what to wear in a certain season, etc.When we used the SMARTBoard in the past, we used it for a lesson that involved some kind of choice.For a fairy tale unit, we read Cinderella. Our activity went something like this: Cinderella is going to the ball,but it is winter. Which clothes will she wear? We had set up the four seasons in quadrants with clothing choicesin the center. The kids volunteered to come up and click and drag. I used it to teach students how to locate key information from research articles. The teacher assigned smallgroups to locate information on specific Civil War figures. I brought up an online encyclopedia articleon an individual, had a student read aloud a paragraph, then ask the students to repeat anything theyheard that was useful (to the project)Using the electronic pens, I had another student to locate thatinformation in the article and underline it. I know the concept is not unusual, but the delivery waswhat engaged the students. (4th Grade Class) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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