"Smartboards are a fabulous combination of two useful methodologies ... " this quote from pioneer Stan Sterenberg's overview (Chapin School 1/14/05)

Overview from Lynne Schalman and Steve Bergen

Click here for our main Web site at www.summercore.com ...

• 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.
  

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Links

• The company's main Web site is www.Smarttech.com
• Click here to download the Mac version as of 7/25/07 ... you need to download the notebook software first and then come back to this page and download the gallery
• Click here to download the PC version
• Click here to read about COVERS for SMARTBOARDS produced by Rob Sugarman and Bill Luther from www.tequipment.com
• Primary Resources (Tommarks England) for Interactive Whiteboards (math, science, literacy, history)
• K-3 Great Resources for using the Smartboard
• K-12 Smartboard Templates to download ... England
• Tutorials from www.smarttech.com
• More Tutorials from www.smarttech.com
• Summary of opinions on using or not using dry erase markers on smartboards
• NEC WT610 works as an alternative to UF35 which is the projector part of the 680i package
• TEQ with Rob Sugarman has an office in Farmingdale where they have a sample 680i setup
• Click here for excellent tips from Mike Palacek in Milwaukee with Web site of smartchoiceav.net

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

At Chapin, we used TEQ for a variety of what we call bronze, silver and gold rooms (bronze is projector only, silver for projector plus smartboard, gold adds DVD setup with DVD player, VCR and cable TV feed). I now know a ton more than I did a year ago and it is amazing how many intracacies there are in terms of projector placement, wall plates, placement preferences re laptop location, smartboard heights in a K-12 school with some teachers being 5' tall and middle school students being shorter. TEQ has been remarkably creative and clever in finding and creating unique solutions and have implemented about 20+ rooms for us in a major league professional manner. Steve