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IN THIS ISSUE NaNcyS NoTES
a NoTE from THE EdITor
Immersion
Teachers never stop learning. When
integrating technology into your classroom,
proessional development is an essential
ingredient one that enables you totake advantage o everything that new
innovations can oer your students. To
ensure SMART products are helping you
achieve your curricular and pedagogical
goals, this issue o the newsletter outlines
some o SMARTs training opportunities,
along with real examples o how proessional
development is helping teachers improve
student learning outcomes. You can also
read about the updates weve made to the
SMART Table, the irst multitouch, multiuser
interactive learning center that allows groups
o primary students to work and learntogether.
As always, i you have any comments about
the newsletter or any o the inormation
eatured in this issue, wed love to hear
rom you. Please e-mail your eedback to
Nancys Notes .......................................... 1
Classroom Content ...............................23
News ....................................................24
Feature Article ......................................... 3
Proessional Development ........................ 4
SMART Showcase School Proile .............. 4
Product Spotlight ..................................56
The word immersion, in the context o
education, oten brings to mind learning
a new language. Language immersion
programs have been around or a long
time and have been very successul.
But immersion can have other
meanings. On a basic level, having
students immersed in their studies
means they are deeply involved in a
subject or investigation. They have
plunged in and are engaged.
When I think o immersion, I also
picture the rich imagery o an elementary
classroom. In many, almost every square inch is covered with colorul posters that immerse
students in their learning, showing numbers, the alphabet, animals and more.
Technology oers the opportunity to go even urther and create an environment inwhich learners are surrounded by dynamic, interactive images. Many o todays students
are visual learners, so the power o a picture can dramatically outweigh language.
In technology-enabled classrooms, rich imagery can help history and geography come
alive. Students can go to places virtually that they would never otherwise experience,
whether back in time or around the world. For math and science students, video and
animation can bring complex ideas to lie. The ability to look at concepts rom dierent
perspectives can really beneit students.
Posters on a wall oer visual interest, but interactive whiteboards with projectors and
computers make the range o images you can oer your students virtually unlimited.
The interactive eatures o technology products help create an immersive experience that
goes much deeper.
In this issue, youll learn about proessional development events and resources we oer
to help you enrich your technology-enabled classroom. Creating this type o immersive
learning environment is just another strategy to capture the imagination o your students
and ignite their will to learn.
Nancy Knowlton is the CEO of SMART Technologies.
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May 2009
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Could you use extra training on SMART Notebook sotware, the AirLiner wireless slate
or SMART Response (ormerly the Senteo interactive response system)? Later this all,
were launching new large-scale proessional development events in various cities across
the United States. As participants receive training, they will have the opportunity to try
SMART Notebook sotware and either the AirLiner wireless slate or SMART Response.
Educators can learn how these products integrate with each other and discover new
ways to eectively engage their students.
Like our regular training events, these ull-day sessions, led by SMART Certiied Trainers,
will guide you through the basics o your SMART product and teach you tips and tricks
that will wow your students and help you boost results. But instead o only being able
to oer training to 2030 educators at a time, these large-scale events will enable us to
help 1001,000 educators master their SMART products.
The ollowing events will be oered in the year to come:
Date Training event Number of participants
October 2009 SMART Response 100150
December 2009 AirLiner wireless slate and
SMART Notebook
100150
February 2010 AirLiner wireless slate and
SMART Notebook
5001,000
Registration or each event includes a SMART product to take home with you. Read
upcoming issues o the newsletter or more inormation. You can also visit SMARTs
Training Center or details on these and other training options rom SMART.
SMART training event at NECCI youd like to receive training on the above products sooner, and you plan to attend the
National Educational Computing Conerence (NECC) this year, register or the level 1 training
event were holding there. On June 29, in Washington, DC, were oering ull-day training
on SMART Notebook sotware and the AirLiner wireless slate, with bonus instruction on
SMART Response. Registration includes a SMART Notebook learner workbook and an
AirLiner wireless slate with carrying case. Space is limited, so register today.
claSSroom coNTENT
Find a comprehensive database o
proessionally developed K12 lesson activities
on our education website. The lessons are
correlated to local curriculum standards and
created by classroom teachers or SMARTs
team o curriculum resource developers.
Try one o the ollowing SMART Notebook
lesson activities during your next science,
math, English or social studies class.
Human Lie Cycle
Science students in grades 35 can
explore the stages o human lie and draw
comparisons with dierent animals.
Cubic Centimeters and Meters
Math students in grades 46 can learn how
to measure volume using cubic centimeters
and meters.
Subject Complements
English students in grade six can learn how
to identiy linking verbs and write sentencescontaining predicate nouns and predicate
adjectives.
The Silk Road
Social studies students in grade seven can
explore the Silk Roads historical signiicance
in shaping its surroundings.
SMART NotebookLesson Activities
NEwS
SMART Launches Training Events orEven More Educators
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claSSroom coNTENT
Find a database o SMART Response
question sets on our education website.
Each set includes 10 questions that are
correlated to state and provincial curriculum
standards and are compatible with a
matching SMART-created lesson activity
on the same topic.
Try one o the ollowing SMART Response
question sets in your next language arts,
science, math or social studies class.
Homophones
K3 language arts students can practice
identiying homophones.
Seasons, Days and Months
Science students in grades 46 can test
their knowledge o the dierent seasons,
days and months.
Operations with Monomials
and PolynomialsMath students in grades 79 can test their
ability to use operations on polynomials.
Glaciers
Social studies students in grades 1012
can test their knowledge o how glaciers
are ormed.
SMART ResponseQuestion Sets
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fEaTUrE arTIclE
Beyond our many training options, we oer a variety o programs to help you build and
share your knowledge. For example, the SMART Exemplary Educator program recognizes
educators who use SMART products in innovative and eective ways. SMART Exemplary
Educators are committed to sharing their experience with ellow educators around the
world. We also have a network o SMART Showcase Schools and Districts. They act
as host sites or other schools or districts interested in learning how SMART education
solutions can improve teaching and learning.
Read the November issue o EDCompass newsletter to learn how you can get involved in
these and other SMART programs.
Proessional Development Programs
Content Creation SeminarsAre you a teacher in Lewisville, Texas? I so, you could be selected to attend a three-day seminar
hosted by SMART, May 2224, 2009. Youll learn how to create highly engaging and interactive
lesson activities that align with Texass curriculum standards. Learn more and apply now.
SMART is hosting a series o these content creation seminars over the next seven months
youll ind out more about upcoming seminars in later issues o the newsletter. Theseminars will be coming to the ollowing places:
Fresno, Caliornia June 1618, 2009
London, England June 2627, 2009
Mobile, Alabama July 1416, 2009
Fairield-Suisun, Caliornia July 2729, 2009
Southern Caliornia August 1921, 2009
Miami-Dade, Florida September 2009
Denver, Colorado October 2009
Memphis, Tennessee November 2009
When Brittany Glass and Amanda Germ graduate in 2011 rom Florida Southern College
as high school math and elementary teachers respectively, they will do so ully prepared
to teach in a technology-enabled classroom. In a classroom with SMART products,
more speciically. Thats because they took the course, Instructional Technology, with Dr.
Jennier King. Read the ull article.
Connections that Count
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Calling all administrators! I you missed
SMARTs administrator webinars last month,
there are still two others that you can attend:
Using Stimulus Funding to Improve Student
Achievement Wednesday, May 20,
at 3:00 p.m. EDT
Closing the Skills Gap: Preparing Teachers
or Technology-Enabled Classrooms
Tuesday, June 2, at 3:00 p.m. EDT
Learn more and register.
A webinar for teachersTeachers can also take advantage o
great online learning opportunities. On
Wednesday, May 27, at 1:30 p.m. EDT,
attend our webinar titled Engaging Diverse
Learners in Group Instruction Utilizing
Interactive Whiteboards. You can ind out
how interactive whiteboards are helping
teachers engage and teach diverse learners
at a special education school in New
Hampshire. Register now.
In addition to the other proessional development opportunities weve eatured in this
newsletter, SMART oers ree training sessions that you can complete at your own pace,
anytime youd like.
Have you been using our Learning Management System? Its your gateway to more
than 40 ree, online training sessions every week, covering more than 20 topics in 5languages. This online system gives you convenient access to all o SMARTs training
resources. Follow along as you watch one o our award-winning Two-Minute Tutorials, or
take advantage o our printable Quick Reerence Guides and Hands-on Practices or Mac
and Windows operating systems.
Visit our Training Center to see which sessions were oering this week. And i youre
not already using the Learning Management System, sign up today to keep track o all
your SMART training.
Private group training availableI you and your colleagues would rather arrange or a private online training experience,
just let us know. Free group training can be given in both English and Spanish, and
some sessions are also available in French. I you would like to schedule a private group
session, e-mail [email protected].
ProfESSIoNal dEVEloPmENT NEwS
Webinar Series orAdministrators
Free Training Resources
Proessional Development a Top Priorityin New Mexico School District
In all 2001, Rio Rancho Public Schools (RRPS) in New Mexico purchased its irst twoSMART Board interactive whiteboards. SMART was chosen because o three critical
actors: ease o use, curriculum support and the number o experienced SMART users
in the district. Administrators at RRPS knew rom the start that the key to a successul
district-wide implementation o SMART products would be adequate and consistent
proessional development or educators at all experience levels. The district has since
purchased 401 additional SMART Board interactive whiteboards, irmly establishing that
education technology training is not just important it is essential. Read the ull article.
SmarT SHowcaSE ScHool ProfIlE
Attend SMARTs
Virtual Trade ShowOn May 28, SMART is hosting its irst
virtual trade show, Educational Technology
Strategies or Success. At this ree online
event, sessions will be oered on a wide
variety o topics, including SMART hardware
and sotware product training or teachers,
and maintenance and troubleshooting
workshops or technology coordinators.
Our keynote webinar will be delivered by
Mary Ann Wol, executive director o the
State Educational Technology DirectorsAssociation. Shell discuss the impact the
ederal stimulus package is having on
districts and schools, and how you can
make the most o it.
You can take part in this trade show rom
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT. Register now.
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We continue to develop new applications
or the SMART Table that eature interactive
content you can use to enhance small-group
learning in your classroom. See whats
currently available or your students:
Addition Plus Solve teacher-deined math
problems using stacks o coins and blocks
Hot Spaces Sort items by dragging
them into groups
Multiple Choice Answer questions by
dragging answers to a central image
Hot Spots Identiy parts o a diagram by
dragging labels to the correct spot
Paint Select colors and eects and then
use ingers to paint
Media Drag or resize photos and videos
Addition Solve automatically generated
math problems
Puzzle Collaboratively solve a tangram
or jigsaw puzzle
ProdUcT SPoTlIgHT
SMART Table - Touch. Learn. Together.
Lets do that again!Thats what teachers using the SMART Table have been hearing again and again in their
classrooms. Since its beta release in all 2008, and its commercial release in February
2009, the response to SMARTs multitouch, multiuser interactive learning center or early
education has been extraordinary. Educators are especially thrilled with the ways the
SMART Table encourages students to collaborate.
Used on its own or with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the SMART Table
can become a lexible and integral part o any technology-enabled classroom. It easily
accommodates individual and small-group learning and instruction. Students can
touch the tables surace to manipulate objects, using gestures like pinching, grabbing,
sliding and tapping, and can also use the table to browse digital content. The size and
orientation o the surace enables groups o students to easily reach the whole screen.
Turn it on and let them goSMARTs lexible content options allow teachers to use ready-made activities, customize
these activities to it their curriculum, or even create their own. In act, were continually
adding new content designed to enhance learning. You can check it out at
www.smarttech.com/tableactivities.
Were introducing two new applications to complement the six currently available. Addition
Plus enables students to work together to solve math problems deined by the teacher,while the Hot Spaces application lets students sort items by dragging them to groups.
Each SMART Table activity corresponds with a SMART-created lesson activity and SMART
Response question set, so you can combine small-group work on the table with whole-
class and individual learning experiences. Simply download an activity to your computer,
customize it, and use the SMART Table USB bracelet to transer it to the table. Then turn
it on and let them go.
New Content
SMART Table software
development kitThird-party sotware developers have
expressed much interest in creatingmultitouch applications or the SMART Table
The SMART Table sotware development
kit is available or ree noncommercial use
through the SMART Development Network
and supports development in C++, C#, Visua
Basic and Java languages. More inormation
can be ound at sdn.smarttech.com.
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ProdUcT SPoTlIgHT
When Sarah Rhyne, instructional technology acilitator at Davie County Schools, talks to
educators at William R. Davie Elementary School about the SMART Table, she says she only
hears great comments.
Educators at this Mocksville, North Carolina, school appreciate that the tables sotware
applications naturally oster collaboration and consensus building with the students.
When the second-grade students use the SMART Table, they need to talk to each other
and come to an agreement beore changing activities. It becomes a skill-building exercise
in communication and compromise, says Rhyne.
Teachers can also easily encourage collaboration with the user-riendly SMART Table
Toolkit. In a really simple, very easy ormat, Ive seen teachers create collaborative
content speciic to the curriculum going on in their classroom, explains Rhyne. For
example, one second-grade class was studying weather, and the teacher produced
SMART Table activities to complement her instruction. Using the Hot Spots application
as a oundation, she created a tornado and had her students identiy, label and match
the dierent parts.
Teachers at William R. Davie have also taken advantage o updated activity packs and
new applications on SMARTs education website. With access to a continually growing
collection o resources, Rhyne sees no end to the uses or the SMART Table in Davie
County Schools.
Weve ound that our students never get bored with the deault table content, but it
really does make the table new when the teachers create original content or them to
access. Its nice to have a product that reinvents itsel that way, explains Rhyne.
A welcome oshoot o having the SMART Table in the school has been the increased
level o parent involvement. Rhyne says that students and parents realize they are seeing
something special in the classroom. Teachers have invited the parents and siblings o
their students to stop by and experience the SMART Table irsthand. It doesnt end there
Rhyne explains. Every time the students go home and say their teacher has created new
content or the table, the parents want to come back. Its been great or our teachers to
experience this increased parent involvement and interest.
SMART Table inthe Special NeedsClassroom
For the past ew months, the Spaulding
Youth Center (SYC) in Tilton, New Hampshire,
has been using the SMART Table. SYC
provides therapeutic and educational care
or youth with autism, or other neurological
impairments, and emotional and behavioral
disorders. Randy Welch, SYCs chie program
oicer, believes the SMART Table has the
potential to do amazing things or the special
ed population. The table, he asserts, is a
tool that can oster educational interaction
between autistic students, especially those
with low verbal and communication abilities.
I watched as two autistic students who have
very poor communication skills, to the point
o almost being nonverbal, learned rom each
other while on the table. They watched what
the other did. They waited or their turn. There
was an understanding occurring between
them. This kind o happening is phenomenally
signiicant in this population, says Welch.
Collaboration and Consensus Building atWilliam R. Davie
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