Hi Netters! I had a few requests for a hit. Thank you so much for your
responses!
Here you go...
Art teachers love smart boards. Of course, we are usually the last to
get them. You can bring up images from the Internet and use the markers
to draw all over them, pointing out how the elements and principles of
art are used, making corrections to bad drawings, whatever. You can also
use the software drawing tools to demonstrate 1 and 2 point
perspective.
I've also taught writing, and it's great to be able to project a
paragraph on the board and edit it as a class. Or do grammar exercises
as a class. The kids like to come up to the smart board and write the
answers in the blanks.
If your school has a web site where each teacher has a page, you can
save the smart board notes to the web site and if a student is absent
they can go there for the notes they missed, or they can review them at
home to make sure they got everything.
It's just a great tool. It's not going to make a bad or a boring
teacher good. But it does make life easier. You don't have to erase
when you've filled the chalk or dry erase board, you just go to another
page and save what you've already done.
Patti Siegel
St. Elizabeth Academy High School
~*~
We just had Smartboard training today in my media center for the 6
teachers who got them at my school this year. I heard the boards cost us
$4,000 a piece. You may want to explore purchasing the wireless tablet
that you can use with the software. She didn't show us the tablet until
the end of the training, but it looks like it does almost all the same
functions, other than writing on the actual Smartboard (you just write
on the tablet and it's projected on to any white board). The tablets
cost $300. The software that you use comes with lots of pictures and
icons in their Gallery and I think access to United Streaming where you
can imbed videos into your Smartboard presentation.
The math teacher who has one loves it. Our projectors are not ceiling
mounted so shadows are an issues.
Good luck, Melissa
Melissa Burdett
Media Specialist
Trafalgar Middle School
2120 Trafalgar Parkway
Cape Coral, FL 33991
Phone 239.283.2001
Fax 239.283.5620
melissamb@leeschools.net
~*~
Hi--I put together a list of articles on Smartboard / digital
projector
use last year. It's posted at:
http://www.livoniacsd.org/class%5Fwebs/agordon/prof%20developmnt/references%20and%20link.htm
Hope this helps.
Anne-Marie Gordon
agordon@livoniacsd.org
Library Media Specialist
National Board Certified Teacher
Livonia Primary School, Livonia, NY
~*~
We installed 73 SmartBoards last summer, You can find a survey we did
of
participants at:
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/district/media/07smarteval.pdf
We did put them in all our media center computer labs so media
specialists
could use them and learn the skills to share with other teachers.
There have also been some conversations on my Blue Skunk blog about
SmartBoards in the past month. A search on IWB should turn them up.
Doug Johnson
Director of Media and Technology
Mankato Area Public Schools
Box 8713, 1351 S Riverfront Dr.
Mankato MN 56001-8714
507-387-7698 x 473
djohns1@isd77.k12.mn.us
www.isd77.k12.mn.us
~*~
Smartboard's website has great downloadable lessons you can use before
you
start making your own. See if you can get the trainer to cme (if they
already haven't) For every board you buy you are supposed to get free
training. Our rep has been once and will come two more times.
Ruth Homer
Librarian
South Main Street School
Pleasantville, NJ 08232
609-383-6895 x2149
ear3@comcast.net
~*~
Hi..I don't know if it helps kids learn but it sure does help me teach.
I
just had one put in the library and there are so many ways to use it
for
teaching. I don't have a blackboard, so I've been using a white board
easel.
With the smart board, I have a projector, an overhead projector and a
blackboard all in one. I'm just learning how to use it, but I love it
already. I can connect to our server and call up saved documents or
project
an Interent site or demonstrate a database. I know that the kids think
it is
cool. They are paying attention a little better, but that may wear off
once
the smartboard novelty wears off.
Rosanne Zajko
Ancillae Assumpta Academy
Wyncote, Pa
~*~
We have one portable Smart Board. Our 2 fifth grade teachers love it.
One
draw back that I have found is that it is a large piece of equipment
that
needs a home when not in use. Our limited storage space means I have
to
find a place for it in the media center.
I'm not saying this is a reason not to get one. Just something I
thought
you might want to consider.
Cindy Cook
Media Specialist
Pike View Elementary
North Little Rock, AR
~*~
I use the Smart Board all the time for lessons and my principal loves
to use it when she has presentations because of all the features it has
with just a touch of the screen. I especially find it useful with my
special education/resource students because then they are able to play
any activity I have on the screen with the touch of their hand versus
trying to control the mouse.
Roxanna Escobedo
Librarian
Captain D. Salinas Elementary
~*~
I'm sharing one with the entire school right now, but
have one coming for next year for the library. People
will still be able to borrow it through the day. It is
so much easier to show my students how to navigate the
website we visit. The OPAC is much easier for them to
see what we need to do. I have my OPAC loaded on each
mac in our lab. I just use the Smartboard to get the
kids started. Awesome tool. I don't know how I lived
without it in the past. I'm even going to use it when
I'm reading stories. We often stop and search for
something we are unfamiliar with that comes up in the
story. Now the students can actually see the pictures
I'm trying to show them and see how I use the web to
find an answer.
Hope that helps. Barb
~*~
I don't have one but at our North Carolina Association of Educators
conference, Beverly Perdue who is our Lieutenant Governor wants to make
a plan for a Smart Board in every classroom. She believes they help in
learning.
~*~
It is ideal for teaching OPAC, database and website
use. How did I ever do this before SBs!!
Everyone can see. Students can come up and advance the
screen just by touching! (Gets them physically
involved).
You can show PowerPoint presentations - either yours,
professionally made, or student projects. You can
write on top of them and not have it appear on the
next slide.
Jill Brown, LMS
Nardin Academy
Buffalo, NY
buflib@yahoo.com
~*~
Save you some money and does the same job. Mobilepresenter by
Numonics
Corporation.
This is a tablet and pen (wireless) I have teachers that Use
Whiteboards
from Numonics (same as Smart boards) that say these are great and
they
would use them. The only feature that I know for sure that they do not
have
is you can not program the buttons. My AV man sells them for $395 +
shipping
I you can not locate a Numonics distributor check the web site
www.visualtechniques.com they have on site email and will send you
company
info. I can buy 3 Mobile presenter for the price of 2 Whiteboards.
Also
When Wylie demoed he used my movie screen from the ceiling. In the
class
room you can use the Write on/ wipe off board.
Shirley Patrick, Librarian
Canton Junior High School
1115 South Buffalo St.
Canton, TX 75103
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