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Before presentation, open
word document short cut attached ppt short cut attached all three wikis google maps (Nepean) 574 Broadview Avenue China photos
http://meldrumenglish1d.wikispaces.com/
http://meldrumenglish12u.wikispaces.com/
http://meldrumewc.wikispaces.com/
http://maps.google.com/
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A Brief Overview of SMART Boards & Wikis in the (English) Classroom
Tania MeldrumAgendaIntroductionHow the technology worksBenefitsFeature OverviewActual Lesson Excerpts
How to Build a Lesson & TipsSaving Formats & TipsResources & TrainingTrouble Shooting
PDF of this saved at meldrumenglish1d.wikispaces.com
Extra informationfor individual learning at a later date
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Introduction
How many of you have ever seen a Smart Board in use?How many have touched one?Used one for lessons or done some training with one?Do you already teach with one?
How many of you know what a wiki is?Have you ever created one?Do you already teach with one?
2 years, last Jan, end of May, July, Sept
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The SMART Board has been a pole vault for my teaching.
The speed, interactivity, and attractiveness keeps the pace of my lessons more even, more
entertaining, and more engaging.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/O55ZHXeZ2kA/Olympics+Day+8+Athletics/GqW1VFobr2/Kelsie+Hendry
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Wikis make information flow easily.Post electronic versions of
handouts, course outlines, due dates, class content, student assignments, links to helpful sites and more.
Wikis make students more accountable. Lost, or forgotten material can be easily accessed by parents or students.Students can post things for each other and collaborate at a distance.
I can change whether or not the public can see the material too.
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How the technology worksWiki
It's just like using wikipedia, except that you create and control the content.
SMART Board
Your finger is your mouse everything you can do at your desk, you can do at the board the board is like the touch screen of the photocopier
press on surface to push into the sensitive layer behind Computer is connected to the board and to the projector
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Tania MeldrumMel drum
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Benefits of the SMART Board
saves your brilliant lessons I write more with the SMART board than ever before
more engagement especially from the techies in your classes more interactive learning demonstrator from SMART more visual learning can let students just watch and absorb instead of taking notes if applicable easy to change/adjust (e.g. students who have black/white contrast issues)
can make the lessons available for students or colleagues (PDF or notebook files)
supply teachers you control the lesson content can see what the teacher does with the lesson designate a student helper & show lesson the day before
parent buyin minitimetable nights are a snap and parents are enthralled.
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Feature Overview
Various toolbars pointer, pen, highlighter, eraser, magic pen, lines, shapes, spotlight
Use with other programs Notebook is invasive and can work with other technologies can write on a
Word document, PowerPoint slide show, movie image, web page, etc. can save a snapshot of the written on image
Gallery timer calendar pages poetry grammar games
Write my name turn to text
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Blending SMART Board and Wikis
Lessons in Notebook saved as PDFs
posted on wiki accessed by students (sick, absent, studying, collaborating)
e.g. Short Story Unit Review and Exam Review (1D)M2 article (EWC)Essays for analysis (12U)
Material created by students uploaded to wiki
opened in class discussed together
e.g Visualization (1D)Historical Reseach (EWC)Literary Terms (12U)
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Technology
Promotes Sharing of Lessons saved into shared drive on server
access for colleagues (sick, absent, collaborating, new) why be a oneroom school house? share with the world Nings (social networking sites for a slice of population, e.g. teachers)
e.g. ENGLISH folder on I:Drivehttp://englishcompanion.ning.com/
http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/
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Actual Lesson Excerpts The Highlight Reel
Grade 9 daily agendas with homework (magic pen) [1D 09 Dec 418], media lost with USB [1D wiki media page for pdf], short stories [wiki short fiction "Borders" and "Thank you, Ma'am" pdf],
Internet [grammar], google earth, wikis, venn diagrams [demonstrate], seating plans [seating 208 Shakespeare per D], project sign ups [summative signups per D], Twelfth Night ppt, fun interactive classstarters [fridgemagnets (preselect letters), crossword in essayworkshop lesson 7], studentteacher essay unit [EssayWorkshopAnatomyLesson1 original & lesson 7], Shakespeare Intro [Jessica's intro lesson]
Grade 12 Gwen's slides [rhetorical devices]
Grade 12 EWC The Pen of My Aunt with notes [smart board script] Description [smart board prose elements] M2 Article, poetry analysis
http://www.chompchomp.com/
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December 9, 2009
Book Return Please bring your novel (and Crossroads if you still have one) to class. Do not just leave it on my desk: wait for me to call you up.
Essays any more to come in?
Writing Prompt Use this time to work on your Quotation Analysis Assignment this was given out Monday
Sign up for Summative presentations period C
Act I, scene iii
Homework: Chronologue for I, iii; Act Quotations for first three quotations
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December 11, 2009
Book Return Writing Prompt think about the play as far as we have read
Choose four lines. 1. one that has beauty in it2. a line with a good joke3. a line that sounds modern4. a line that appeals to you
Write down the act, scene, and line numbers Write down what you think of the line.
Homework Check: Get out your Quotation Analysis Assignment I am checking that you have this done
Act I, scene iii continued 5 min to finish up the actions put your names on your script, then hand in I'll give you a different group's script
read through it and see if you can figure out what the actors are doing
Work on your summative Pourquoi Rough due Dec 17th
Homework: Write most of the rough draft of your Pourquoi Tale
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Time Line
"Borders" Thomas King told in nonchronological order
Laetitia talks of leaving
Laetita goes to U.S.A.
Narrator & Mother go to visitTurned back at American Border
Turned back at Canadian Border
Spend the night in car
Vocabulary Match Up great starter exercise relatively stressfree way for students to learn the board lock the vocab words in, then type the answers in separately so they move freely
Inept
Apt
Proficient
the appropriate use or thing
clumsy or not good/practised at somethinggood at something
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Venn Diagram
Jean Louise Jeremy
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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December 2009
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Reach Out and Touch
By Maxine Tynes
baby girl, baby boy behind me on the busreach outand touch the curly electric of my hairyour fingers dipped in the brown skin magic of my neckto see if it comes offyour mamaslapping hands awayhushup of your questionsand wondering out loud why it doesn’t come off.I turn and smile for you,but you’re already lost in the silence and the fear that motherlove wraps you in.I should have sat beside yousnugged up my big warm self up closeheld you while your mama juggled parcels.then you would know it’s o.k.
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Firstname
English 1D05 Period C
Front
Teacher
Amanda
Lesley Zander
Scott
Medina Josephine Shawn
Eric
Heather
Ian
Zoe
AlecMontell
Hannah Mackenzie Aiden
Aween
Tessa Zach V
Sophia
Brandon
Anik
Julia
Emmett
Stephen
Farah
Sloan
Sam
AdamBen C
Firstname
Teacher
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Summative Story Telling Presentations with Media Component
Jan 12 Jan 13 Jan 14 Jan 15 Jan 18 Jan 19 Jan 20
Montell
Sloan
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January 20th is the overflow day for those presentations that are legitimately delayed.
Presentations that are missed for nonlegitimate reasons will be made up at lunch or after school.
= email= not submitted
I was absent
= rescheduled
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Writing Prompt
Make as many words as you can with the following letters.
You may only use a letter once in a word if it appears once on the board.
Also, guess what all the words come up with. Hint #1: Who am I?
You win a prize if:
you get the most words. you get the longest word. you get what all the words spell (Special Prize I will bring it Monday).
Hint #2: I was born in the late 1500s.
Hint #3: I am most famous for my Tragedies and Comedies.
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Words you came up with
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Questions on "Why Speed Matters"from an article by Wolfgang Sachs
20 marks
(4 marks) Of the twenty (20) marks for this section, four (4) marks are awarded for organization, clarity, and
writing in Standard English.
(2 marks) 1. In your own words, state the author's thesis.
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How to Build a Lesson & Tips
Easy start Just write or type up your board notes no special features used at the end of the lesson, save the file, as opposed to erasing board
Add features and interactivity as you get comfortableBig Tip: Back Up Your Brilliance! (+cautionary tale)
Time sink (like a purse's contents, will expand to fill space available)
Build in easy/lowstress ways for students to try the board sign name, vocab match, put name on seating plan, sign up for a project, move an object on infinite cloner, etc.
(grade 12s were afraid to seem inept)
Student Use one person at the board at a time a line up about five people deep is efficient (grade 9 experience)
Font Sizes good range 20 25ish check from all angles of the room
Amount of text on slide treat like a ppt too much is overwhelming
Colour Use too much is distracting ask students if anyone is colourblind
Cloning and Moving Pages within and between files you can copy and paste whole pages or drag and drop
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Saving Formats and Tips I suggest labeling your files carefully so you can find what you're looking for saving separate versions (a master and copies) saving your daily agenda separately from your teaching content using different folders for different units putting the course code (12U, EWC, 1D, etc.) as part of name Saving the PDF of the file
open Notebook file in File menu choose Export choose PDF choose full page format
type a useful namehttp://smarttech.com/
Resources & training online There's lots available
SMART technologies has live, online training for free TeacherTube and YouTube SMART board Ning board training
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Trouble Shooting useful tips for studenthelpers & supply teachers too
Green light / red light check connection
Wonky pen line realign the board
'Les triangles aux doigts' story can't find the pointer this may happen when in other programs too touch the pointer icon on one of the toolbars
Can't pick up an object on board object may be hidden under another move the other one
Pen mismatch put the pens back in correct tray compartment
Can't close a window reduce size, or use mouse at computer (corner blind spot)
When in doubt, ask a student: they've likely seen the problem before.
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Attachments
A Blade of Grass.doc
The Dangling Conversation Jennifer.ppt
The Pen of My Aunt notes.notebook