Ways to Use SMARTboards
(The following are taken and adapted from the IT dept. at Wichita Public Schools
- Save lessons to present to students who were absent
- Have students create e-folios including samples of their work and narration
- Teach whole group computer or keyboarding skills
- Brainstorming
- Take notes directly into PowerPoint presentations
- Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites
- Teach editing skills using editing marks
- Use in the 6 trait writing process
- Use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
- Use it with Inspiration
- Teaching students how to navigate the Internet
- Illustrate and write a book as a class. Use the record feature to narrate the text.
- Diagramming activities
- Teaching steps to a math problem.
- Graphics and charts with ESL learners and special ed students.
- Teaching vocabulary
- Create video files to teach a software application, a lesson, or as a review to be posted to the server or web. Example- How to create a graph in Excel or how to burn a projects to cds
- Use the built in maps to teach continents, oceans, countries, or states and capitals.
- Show presentations created by student or teacher
- Digital storytelling
How To: Resources available online
- 2 minute tutorials by SMART Technologies Inc. Animated
- Brief and broad overview from an educational blogger. Text-based.
- Podcast – regular and engaging, but each audio episode runs 30 minutes to over an hour
All these sites and more are bookmarked at : http://del.icio.us/gdixon/smartboard
We’ve also tried our own hand at some ultrabasic, quick and dirty videos on using the specific equipment here on KCKCC campus. See our wiki .
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