- Helps teachers structure lessons more effectively
- Supports collaborative interactive learning
- Helps to attract and retain students’ cognitive skills
- Promotes more effective note taking
- Work can be saved, printed out and reviewed
- Offers increased opportunities for auditory, visual and kinaesthetic learning
Good Practice with a SMART BOARD
- Create interactive lessons – not Power Point static presentations
- Build formative assessments into every lesson
- Clear and readable notebook pages, use of images, highlighting and color
Bad Practice with a SMART BOARD
- Using the Smart Board as a “text book on the wall”
- No evidence of “formative assessment” activities
- Using the Smart Board only as a white board with digital ink
Ten Ways to Use the SMART Board in Your Classroom
- Access websites, add notes and save pages with the camera icon on the floating tool bar.
- Engage your students by creating reveal activities that can be easily integrated into the curriculum – move and reveal, erase and reveal, screen shade.
- Play Power Point jeopardy interactively – download a template from this site - http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm
- Do daily language on the Smart Board. Have kids come up and make changes using editing and proofreading marks. Also use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
- Have students interact with some of the hundreds of interactive websites that are out of the web - http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/resources/SBsites.htm and http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm
- Bring up a blank graphic organizer and fill it in using digital ink or bring one up in SMART Notebook and use drag and drop feature.
- By showing video clips using the SMART Player you can pause and annotate on the video then capture to Notebook.
- When you are ready to make your own eye-catching lesson activities, try the pilot version of SMART’s Lesson Activity Toolkit - the newest addition to Notebook software resources. It’s full of customizable tools and templates that you can use to create professional-looking lessons - http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Software+Resources/toolkit/default.htm
- Use Smart Notebook software to create creative, meaningful, interactive lessons with clear design, colorful graphics and succinct text.
- Create “Magic paper” using your Smart Notebook software. Magic paper is an area on your Smart board that magically reveals an answer when students drag something onto it. http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/training_videos/index.html
Questions & Answers about the SMART Board
What is the SMART Board?
The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that turns your computer and data projector into a powerful tool for teaching and presenting.
What can you do with a SMART Board?
Interact
Touch the Board to control any computer application or move any object.
Create
Write notes, draw diagrams and illustrate ideas.
Focus
Highlight key information with electronic ink.
Capture
Save in many different formats and print.
View
Web sites and multimedia through the SMART video player
Design
Use Notebook software to create interactive lessons and assessments.
How does the SMART Board work?
It uses resistive technology, which means there is a small air gap between two sheets of resistive material inside the Board. When you press on the Board, a contact point is registered and its coordinates correspond to the same area on the computer screen. Because the SMART Board is based on resistive technology, it does not require a special stylus or pen to perform mouse or pen functions at the Board, only pressure on the Board's surface
How does the SMART Board recognize where I write or touch on the Board?
When the SMART Board is used as a whiteboard to record and save notes to a computer file, it automatically maps the position of your writing on the Board to the corresponding area on the computer monitor. When the SMART Board is used with projection for the first time, it will need to be oriented. With the projected image focused inside the board, it will need to be calibrated.
How firmly do I have to press to register contact?
Not hard, but contact with the Board surface must be constant for writing to register. The Board is as natural to write on as a regular whiteboard
How does the system recognize what tool I am using?
When you remove a marker from its color slot on the SMART Pen Tray, the Pen Tray senses which pen (red, blue, green or black) has been selected. When you use the pen to write on the Board, the ink appears on the computer screen in the selected color. Similarly, the Pen Tray senses when you remove the eraser. When you use the eraser to remove writing on the Board, your writing is erased simultaneously from the Board and the computer screen.
What happens if I select multiple Pen Tray tools?
The last tool selected is the tool that is activated. If you replace one of the pens in its slot, then the last tool selected that remains out of its slot is active. An illuminated LED indicator makes it easy to know which tool is active
How durable is the screen surface?
The Board surface is a highly durable hardcoat polyester. There is no noticeable wear and tear on the surface from normal use. However, sharp instruments will mar or cut the Board surface.
Is there a special cleaner that should be used with the Board?
No. To remove finger oils, simply clean the Board with Windex or Clorax wipes. If permanent markers are used on the Board, you can erase them using a readily available cleaning solvent.
What computer applications can I use with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard?
You can use any point-and-click application you have on your computer – including Internet browsers, spreadsheets, interactive CD-ROMs and word processing programs. Commonly used applications include PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Internet Explorer, and many others
What type of projector or plasma display panel can I use?
You can use any digital projector.
Can I right-mouse click?
Yes. The SMART Pen Tray has two control buttons – one to activate the on-screen keyboard and one to right-mouse click. When you press the right-mouse button, your next touch on the board will be a right-mouse click.
Do you need special software installed to run the Smart Board?
Yes, you need to download and install SMART Board software 9.7 http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/SBSv97Win.htm
What can I do with SMART Notebook software?
- create, organize and save SMART Board interactive lessons
- import graphics, text, clip art and entire files from any other application
- save a SMART Notebook file in JPG or HTML format to send it or share it with someone who doesn’t have SMART Notebook software on their computer.
eTHEMES Calendar
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/calendar.shtml
Writing Prompts
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/brightideas/index.html
Links Learning
http://www.linkslearning.org/Teachers/_index.html
Math Interactives 