Beginner Training 01/05/11

Karen Brooks

Introduction to Smart Boardshttp://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp

• The SMART Board is a large whiteboard that uses any of a handful of touch technologies for detecting user input (e.g. scrolling interaction) that are equivalent to normal PC input devices, such as mice or keyboards. Some sort of projector is used to display a computer's video output onto the whiteboard, which then acts as a huge touch screen. The SMART Board usually comes with 4 digital writing utensils that use digital ink replacing the traditional whiteboard markers. The digital ink work by using an active digitizer that controls the PC input information for writing capabilities such as drawing or handwriting.http://www.smarttech.com

Advantageshttp://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp

• You open the world up for your classroom. There are many virtual field trips out on the web, and you can tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art, go on a field trip to a swampland, or tour of a Martian rock field. What could be better than that? It's as though you are really standing on Mars!

• Also you can interact with the various buttons on the web site you choose. Kids love to go up and click on a birdsong, for example, or start a penmanship animation going.

• The smart board is large, and really commands attention so children stay focused.

• Large animations can show the relationships between objects, such as with planet orbits in the solar system, or the interaction among molecules.

• Another great feature is that you can use colored "markers" that can be used to circle things on the screen. Kids loved that since they could point out a spot on a map, or a grammar mistake, etc. for the whole class.

• The Library of Congress is there for the taking, and in a large enough format so that you can read books together, sing songs, and show a Van Gogh print in larger than life size. I could go on and on.

Disadvantageshttp://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp

• The Smart Boards can be a bit touchy. You had to orient the board if someone bumps it. (The markers could be off by quite a ways if you didn't orient the board frequently.) This can be annoying.

• In certain models, the projector light casts a shadow on the the board until you get out of the way. Rear projection and LCD based Smart Boards don't have that problem.

• The smart board system is heir to the same problems that a computer and projector setup have, since you need a laptop to find the web sites and a projector to project the images on the Smart Board. Sometimes the web site is down, or plugs don't work, etc.

• I found that finding the sites on my classroom computer did not translate to the laptop we had hooked up in another room. I'd then have to send myself an email and open it on the laptop hooked to the white board. It was easier finding the web sites on the laptop and making a bookmark on the laptop.

• Expensive, and therefore not everyone can have one. • The bulbs for the projector are very expensive.

How are you using the SMARTboard? What tools are you using?

• Use:– Attendance– Lessons– Examples– Interactions/Interactive

Websites– Interactive Lessons– Simulations– Virtual Field Trips– Etc.

• Tools:– Notebook– Notebook Tools– Recorder– Camera– Document Camera– DVD Player– Ink layer/Pens– Locating Lesson

Templates– Etc?

Roger’s Adoption

Curve

Where do you fall?

Session OneI will be able to:

• Connect the SMARTBoard to a computer using wireless or USB connection.• Orient the SMARTBoard.• Learn what the tools are and what can be done on a SMARTBoard• Know where to find already created resources and templates.• Access and use a website using the SMARTBoard.• Open and use a computer program using the SMARTBoard.• Activate and use the on-screen keyboard.• Write onscreen with Smart pens.• Erase writing using eraser or tools.• Open Smart Notebook.• Use the handwriting recognition tool turning writing into text• Sizing Text in SMARTNotes• Creating Interactive Text • Save worksheets to Smart Notebook.• Access tutorials in the Smart Teacher’s Hub• How to clean the SMARTBoard.

Karen’s KISS Principle for Technology

Break Out ActivityTeams of Two

• Turn on and Connect and orient the SMARTBoard in the classroom.

• Follow this Guide – Given in Class: http://www.emich.edu/facdev/resources/training/Hands_on_practice.pdf

• Find a Lesson on Tequipment you would like to play with and edit.

• Open the SMARTNotes file and play with it to edit it.– Write down questions to review at the end of the course.

Constructive ReinforcementAKA Homework

• Plan and use one SmartBoard activity before the next session– Find and edit a lesson or Template and/or;– Use an Interactive Website

• Reflect on how the use of the SmartBoard assisted and/or motivated student learning during the activity as well as how it affected my teaching style.

Finding Material

• Tequipment – Educator Resource Center –

– Software Downloads - http://www.teq.com/software-downloads/

– Districts in NY that use them - http://www.teq.com/districts-schools/

– Resources - http://www.teq.com/resources/

– Educator Center - http://community.teqsmart.org/news.php

• SMART Exchange Lesson Finder - http://exchange.smarttech.com/curriculum.html#New%20York%20Core%20Curriculum

• Districts with SMARTboard Pages - http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/Web+Links

• SMARTboard Quickstart Guide - http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/file/view/SmartBoard+Quickstart+guide.pdf

• Trouble Shooting Connections – http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/file/view/Troubleshooting+Connections.pdf

• SMARTBoard YOUTUBE Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlgGpVpgWo

• SMART 2 Minute Tutorials - http://www.smarttech.com/us/Resources/Training/Training+Search

My Resources

• My Resources– http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/

– http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com

– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01

• More Resource– http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

– http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=248,index

– http://mrsgebauer.com/smartboard.html

• Delicious Resources:– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/science

– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/ss

– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/ela

– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/math

– http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/languages

Tutorials

• http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2008/01/smartboard-recorder-and-video-player.html

• http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2008/02/smart-board-overview-notes-for-novice.html

• http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2007/12/smartboard-overview-professional.html

Resources

• Ulster County SMARTBoard Center http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/

• Black Spaghetti http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/Interactive%20Whiteboards

• SMARTBoard Videos - http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/SMARTBoard+Videos

• Mrs. Blossom – Online SMARTBoard Course -https://www.blossomlearning.com/default.aspx

• Faculty Training Center

http://www.emich.edu/facdev/resources/training/smartboardindex.html

• Mark Twain Gifted and Talented School http://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp

• International Interactive WhiteBoard Challenge - http://iwbchallenge.wikispaces.com/

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Karen Brooks

Ulster BOCES/Model Schools

kbrooks@ulsterboces.org

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