Tri County Vocational SMARTBoards & Humanities

SMART Notebook File From the day - TriCounty-Humanities.notebook

TodaysMeet trainscript - TodaysMeet-transcript.pdf 

Introduction

• Personal Introductions
• SMART Boards in 21st Century Education
• Poll #1 - http://pollev.com/bholland

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?
  • Customizing the Toolbar
  • Thumbnails, Gallery, Formatting Palette, Activity Builder
  • Working with objects - formatting, adding hyperlinks, locking, cloning, and integrating media

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
• Integrating the web browswer
• Building lessons & activities with the Notebook software
  • SMART Exchange
  • Whiteboard Blog
• Challenge #2

SMART Boards and the writing/research process

• Using the SMART Board and Recorder for modeling the process
• Integrating SMART tools and Microsoft Word for writing workshops
• Creating activities that combine student computers and the SMART Board
• Challenge #3 - create a SMART Board activity that you could incorporate into either a writing or research project.

Web-Based Tools that Integrate Well

• Vocaroo
• SoundCloud
• Digital Vaults
• Animoto
• ThingLink
• Storybird
• Polleverywhere
• Socrative
• ClassDojo

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