Taft Foreign Language Faculty

Introduction

• Personal Introductions
• SMART Boards in 21st Century Education
• Poll #1 - How Often Do You Use a SMART Board?

SMART Board Hardware Overview

• How it works
• Pens & Eraser
• Orienting
• Keyboard & Right-Click

SMART Board Software Overview

• Floating Tools
  • Why use them?
  • Turning them on and off
  • Popular Tools: pen, highlighter, screen shade, spot light, screen capture
  • Customizing the tool bar
  • Challenge #1
• Notebook software
  • Why use it?
  • View>Customize Toolbar
  • Thumbnails, Gallery, Formatting Palette
  • Working with objects - formatting, adding hyperlinks, locking, and cloning
  • Challenge #2
  • Poll #2 - Which tool did you find most useful?

Building Lessons

• Reveal techniques using shapes and screen-shade
• Integrating audio & video into Notebook lessons
• Using the SMART Recorder
• Displaying pages side-by-side and using the push-pin
• Building lessons & activities with the Notebook software
  • SMART Exchange
  • Whiteboard Blog
• Challenge #3

SMART Boards and DiLL Software

• Using the SMART Board as a controller
• Playing back student examples
• Creating activities that combine DiLL and the SMART Board
• Challenge #4 - create a SMART Board activity based on something that you are already doing with DiLL. If you are not already using DiLL, create an activity that integrates both that software as well as the SMART Board.

Web-Based Tools for Language Projects

• Fotobabble
• AudioBoo
• Animoto
• VoiceThread - example from a Spanish Class (http://voicethread.com/share/189515/)
• Google Earth - example is to create a tour of a designated city

Integrating Student Computers

• Using iTunes/iTunesU for listening comprehension
• Responding to polls and entrance/exit surveys
  • Polleverywhere
  • Socrative
• Creating multimedia projects using web tools and displaying/reviewing on the board
• Poll #3 - What do you think you will try to implement in the immediate future?

Additional Resources

• SMART Notebook Integration Guide
• SMART Board Revolution group
• SMART Training Resources
• Teaching with SMART Boards
• 56 Interesting Ways to Use SMART Boards
• Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom (Diigo List)
• ViewPure - for stripping out YouTube videos

More from EdTechTeacher

• March 22nd Teaching Foreign Languages with Technology webinar with Erin McCloskey: Explore practical ways to use technology to enhance instruction of the 5 C's framework (Communication, Culture, Community, Connections and Comparisons). Erin McCloskey will pay specific attention to listening, speaking and writing skills.
• June 21-22 Teaching Foreign Languages with Technology summer workshop at Harvard. This is a 2-day, hands-on event led by Erin McCloskey. The workshop will explore innovative ideas, effective techniques, and thoughtful plans for incorporating Web-based resources, social media, and emerging technologies into foreign language classrooms with an eye towards building global awareness, collaboration skills, and critical thinking.

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