We currently have an underused Smart Board at my school. As I always think about ways I could, in fact, use this technology here are three lesson ideas:
1. Inspiration! Another great technology resource I don't use enough is Inspiration. What a great tool to great webs and organizers with elementary school kids. Using the interactive board with Inspiration would be a student-centered, student-created endeavor. Okay, let's say the kids need to do a web about crayfish using information they find on the Internet. I could start them off with the subtopics of structures, behaviors, and habitats. Every time a student found a piece of information for the web they could come up to the interactive board and add it themselves. When all was said and done I could save the web and print out a copy for everyone. This could be used at several given times during the course of our crayfish unit. It would allow students to synthesize information while immediately using that information in a useful way.
2. Microsoft Word Scavenger Hunt! With Office 2007 my kids are having a hard time finding things on the ribbon and appopriately using the new features. It would be great to somehow create an interactive version of a Word document that could be used as a scavenger hunt.
I would ask students to find certain features. They would use the interactive board to point to the feature they think I'm talking about. If it was right, a bubble would appear to confirm their guess. If it was wrong, a bubble would appear and tell them to try again. This could be used in many other programs as well and would allow students to become more comfortable with program we use frequently in school.
3. Angles! We do a lot of work with angles; types of angles, measuring angles, drawing angles. I found this oh-so-cool website ( http://www.active-maths.co.uk/whiteboard/) that offers a free trial (or subscription - it's from the UK so prices are in pounds) which allows you to do a variety of sheets. One the sheets was a place to measure angles with a huge protractor on a white board! This would engage the kids so much that I believe it would help them better understand how to measure angles.
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Inspiration is a great piece of software. We're running an workshop on Inspiration in the Winter if you're interested.
Also, what is the 'ribbon' that kids can't find things on in Word?
Great post, lots of good ideas so start using them....don't let it get to you saying 'another great piece of software I don't use enough!".
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