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Smartboards
Smartboards
This year our school, K-12 we purchased four Smartboards and the principal has tasked us to incorporate them into classroom learning. A Smartboard is an interactive whiteboard that is connected to a computer and a data projector. Once the computer image is projected on the board, the Smartboard can be used as a computer. By just using your finger you can control the computer. The Smartboard enables you to write notes, insert diagrams, link to web sites and save work for future use. Also, In Johnston County we have a technical fair each year and this year our principal wants us to use the smart boards in our project. Being able to simply touch the surface to get started makes an interactive whiteboard easy to learn and enjoyable for students to use.
Since this was a new technology for the teachers at my school it helped me to have this section for research to find ideas and find support training materials to get started. I used the module on lesson ideas for Smartboards to introduce ideas to both the elementary and middle school teachers.
We just finished a pilot project with the eighth grade students that involved the following core subject areas, social studies, language arts, math, and the technology department. The software tools used were Front page, Access, Excel, Word, and Smart boards. The name of the project is ?Cost of Having Fun in
As a visitor to our booth you will pick what city you would like to travel to and what interests you have for your vacation. From the data base that the students have built the students will be able to retrieve mileage, gas prices, costs of tickets, restaurants, and hotels for your stay. The students will then use the Smartboard to manipulate the data base and spread sheets to show what the total cost of your vacation would be.
We are now rolling the above project out across the entire eighth grade. Also, I will be using the Smartboard to introduce spread sheets and formulas to the seventh grade students and designing lesson plans and projects to accomplish this. I am hoping that the students will enjoy working with the Smartboard and possibly retain excel experience longer to help them pass their eighth grade computer test. For the eighth grade I am using a lesson plan that uses College Fund of North Carolina (CFNC) to help plan what the student might pick as a profession and what schools will support that degree. Using the pay scale from this lesson the student will use spread sheets to plan a monthly budget and check writing. They will then use the Smartboard to present this project.
Posted at 01:10PM Nov 17, 2006 by LASKIN, RICHARD in General | Comments[0]