SMARTBoard+Resources

Attendees: Cheryl, Carrie, Andrew, Alex, Amanda, Adrian, Tara. Jen MacKinnon. Absent

Alex and Jenn MacKinnon shared this month Alex shared Reading a-z.com and how to project it on the SMARTBoard and print out the books. When in the projecting side it has its own set of tools to use right within the program. This is a subscription site http://readinga-z.com

Jennifer shared a rolls for doubles game that she created Jeaopardy game from SMART Exchange website - Naomi found it and changed it for the liquid and solids game Guess that animal group - for classification and extending information verbally - this was a Random Image Chooser template Shared her Diwali The Hindu Festival of Lights lesson - linked to Learn 360 video Grabber lesson - has animated pics from the gallery that grab their attention

Sites to share from the Creating SMARTBoard Lessons - Yes you Can! Book Jen owns http://smarboards.typepad.com http://delicious.com/mjeans/smarboard http://harveyshomepage.com/Harveys_Homepage/Welcome.html

Wednesday, April 11, Sharing Session:
Attendees: Cheryl, Carrie, Eda, Andrew, Alex, Amanda, Adrian, Tara. Jen MacKinnon. Candice Shaw - student teacher Lalanee MacIntosh, Carrie and Adrian shared this month Adrian shared a concentration game with French rhyming words - using a template from Lesson Activity Tool Kit, Prof de Jour - build an answer together, use oral and visual answers together, uses the hangman type game to have students answer a question and spell in French Carrie - showed us her calendar that she uses regularly and leaves with her Prof du Jour, Shared her cat in the night story that goes with her gestures - can manipulate the words on the SMARTBoard to create the correct sentence from the words - get to know where the adjectives and then they draw a picture to demonstrate their knowledge of the vocabulary.

Wed March 7, Sharing Session
Eda shared with the group items she found fun and useful from the Lesson Activity Toolkit: A Fractions/decimals and Percentages Quiz from Daydream Education Category game prov/terr Medival matchup Multi doubles game - click and reveal Simple machine multiple choice Word definition match - celebrations Froguts Thank you Eda

Sharing Next in April: Carrie and Adrian May: Jen and Alex

Attendees: Cheryl, Carrie, Eda, Andrew, Alex, Amanda, Adrian, Tara. Jen MacKinnon Alex is going to get the SMARTBoard hooked up in the ESL office soon. Still looking for the French Activity Notebook not downloading visit others to see valuable at the start of the meetings and not at the end go into someones room to start our Staff Meetings hands on learn from our colleagues. French have to use the board - things being uniform in classes makes easier for the French French

Wednesday, December 13, Sharing Session:
This sharing session did not happen due to a very full Staff meeting.

Wednesday, November 9, Sharing Session:
Attendees: Cheryl, Carrie, Eda, Andrew, Alex, Amanda, Adrian, Tara Does the bulb slowly die and cause problems Amanda still need help setting up her SMARTBoard, Different places to search material, Flashing green, Tell people what Helped Carrie look at French stuff - there is a Lesson Activity for French

Found this Interactive Whiteboard Math site today, Nov.6/11
http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/Interactive-Whiteboard-Resources.html

Wednesday, October 12th Sharing Session:
Members: Andrew, Amanda, Adrian, Jen M, Jill, Cheryl, Rachel D • use it to write in planners, journals - use it in SMARTBoard mode so that you can write on it and save the writing, capture the work, • use it to read books • use it to demonstrate art and science lessons document camera: • over exposure, focusing issues, not working Cheryl offered to talk to the techs at Duplicom to see if they can help with our document camera issues This group was told that Aurora and Cheryl will be coming around to all the classrooms to hook up all the SMARTBoards and document cameras in a consistent manner over the next couple of weeks - we hope that this will solve some of the issues with inconsistencies in SMARTBoard performance Amanda would like help hooking up the TEC IBM to her SMARTBoard Jen M commented that she is still experiencing freezing - Cheryl has times in the day where the mouse disappears and to get it to come back she just plays with the tracking pad for a few seconds and it magically returns
 * there were questions about what you can do with the document camera:
 * some of the following were problems that individuals have experienced with the

Here is a list of information that was prepared for CATC Camp on SMARTBoards Enjoy Cheryl Ways to use a SMARTBoard™ in the Classroom - by all means not an exclusive list!
 * Save lessons to present to students who were absent
 * Daily student sign ins - attendance
 * Interactive calendar that links to the Weather Channel, current events, etc.
 * Use the built in maps to teach continents, oceans, countries, or provinces and capitals
 * Use Google Maps and Google Earth
 * Create interactive maps
 * Electronic Word Wall
 * Present presentations created by student or teacher
 * Have students create e-folios including samples of their work and narration
 * Digital storytelling -> use to tell the story using graphics, or as a backdrop for performances
 * Use to collaborate with other classes in school and around the world
 * Use as a centre for Language Arts eg. A Guided reading group
 * Teach whole group computer or keyboarding skills
 * Brainstorming
 * Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites
 * Teach editing skills using editing marks
 * Use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
 * Use it with Kidspiration or Inspiration or any other software
 * Teaching students how to navigate the Internet
 * Illustrate and write a book as a class. Use the record feature to narrate the text.
 * demonstrating art techniques
 * Diagramming activities
 * Teaching steps to a math problem.
 * Have students share projects during Parent/Teacher/Student conferences
 * Graphics and charts with ESL learners and special ed students.
 * Interactive anchor charts
 * Etc. etc. etc.

Where to go for ideas? __[|http://exchange.smarttech.com - join for free]__ - Make sure the top right hand corner is displaying the word Canada and the flag -> if it is displaying United States and their flag -> click on it and options will appear for you to select Canada and it has options to choose English or French

Center school District in Missouri Smartboard templates: __[]__

Curriki - K-12 Open Curricula Community - has Interactive Resources: __[]__

TopMarks UK Educational Search Engine Interactive Whiteboard Resources: __[]__

Interactive Internet Resources - Interactive Sites for SMART Board use: __[]__

56 Ways to use an Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom: __[]__

SMARTBoardTM - many links to various sites: __[]__

List of interactive websites to use with the SMARTBoard from Resource Materials and Technology Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, St.Augustine Florida: __[]__

Interactive Whiteboard Ideas from Scholastic: __[]__ __[]__

All Interactive Whiteboard Resources: __[]__

Juba, Waza, Cabanga - online IWB games in math and inquiry. __[]__ -

Longwood Central School District, New York SMARTBoard Lessons: __[]__

Harry’s Homepage by retired math teacher teacher Harvey Almarode: __[]__

Illumiations - a library of 90 online activities compatable with the SMARTBoard: [|__http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx__]

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: __[]__

A presentation by Candace Hackett Shively, Director of K-12 Initiatives, [|__The Source for Learning__]

Given at ISTE 2011, Philadelphia titled: Hands off, Vanna! Giving Students Control of Interactive Whiteboard Learning: __[]__

Article: Interactive Whiteboard Redemption: __[]__

56 Interesting Ways to use your an IWB in the classroom: __[]__

A Video describing Storytelling and the SMARTBoard: __[]__

Blogs:

Anne Marie’s Talking SMARTBoards and Much More: __[]__/

The Whiteboard Blog by Danny Nicholson (UK): [|__http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk__]/

Teachers Love SMART Boards by James Hollis: [|__http://smartboards.typepad.com__]/

A Collection of SMARTBoard Sites:
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Math Sites:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shape.htm#Coordinates

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=20

http://harveyshomepage.com/Harveys_Homepage/Number_Sense.html