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"Smartboards are
a fabulous combination of two useful methodologies ... "
this quote from pioneer Stan Sterenberg's
overview (Chapin School 1/14/05)
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Overview from Lynne Schalman and Steve Bergen
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- JV: using the smartboard as a giant touch screen with markers to highlight and erase
- each pen writes electronically in color, letting you circle words or highlight info for students
- tapping on the screen when all pens are back in the tray automatically erases
- navigate the Web by clicking on the screen
- make sure you know how to orient the board
- Varsity: using the smartboard to prepare lessons in advance, perhaps with sequential steps and perhaps
to then send to students or post on the Web. As of Spring 2008, there
are 3922 Pictures & Backgrounds,
478 Interactive & Multimedia Files and
990 Notebook Files & Pages that you use at the Varsity level as you work with the Smartbook Notebook. In addition to the 12 Lesson Activities you see below, you can search on the Web for hundreds more produced by teachers all over the world!
- Vocabulary (source is from smartech, click
here for their two page handout)
- Pictures and Backgrounds include clip
art and photographs. A background fills the entire page.
- Interactive and Multimedia contains three types of content: Flash
files, video files and objects with attached sounds. Items from this
section of the Gallery are used to add rich media content to a lesson or
presentation and engage reluctant learners with multimedia elements.
- Notebook Files and Pages.
Notebook file thumbnails are recognized by the coil binding on the left
of the thumbnail image. Drag the thumbnail image to the work area to
add a page or series of pages, such as a complete lesson activity, to
your existing content. Notebook files will be inserted directly after the
active Notebook page.
Notebook page thumbnails are identified by the folded edge in the top-
right corner. Drag the thumbnail image to the work area to create a new
page with a background for students to write over, such as an exercise
in identifying shapes.
Links
Videos where you can watch the smartboard in use
- Hong Kong ... click for
delightful 4 minute video with children writing on the smartboard
- Student at the smartboard ... click
to watch 45 seconds of a student using for the first time
- One teacher uses google ... click and
demonstrates writing with markers and erasing the screen
- Kids using a smarboard (not sure what language ;-)
... click ... 3 minutes
- Two guys show an overview of features ... their teaching techniques leaves
something to be desired ... click
- Google Earth demo ... click... 3 minutes ... in French
- Clever presentation ... click
for presentation of the smartboard in a math class at the Varsity level ("using smartboard notebook
where the teacher has prepared lessons ahead of time and stored graphics on the right side ... followed by JV level
in a social studies class ... total of 7 minutes
- British intro ... click for
50 seconds on the connections
What else?
- Click here for the two page PDF
e-mail note sent by Stan Sterenberg to the Chapin faculty on Jan 14,
2005 ... the quote at the top -- "smartboards are
a fabulous combination of two useful methodologies" -- comes from this letter
(used with permission from my former colleague Stan)
- Below is an excerpt from a note that I sent to the NYCIST listserv 9/19/04 (Steve Bergen)
- Here is the smartbboard Web page from Chapin as we have moved
along with Smartboards at Chapin from
2003 onward
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