SMARTBoards Bringing Classroom Lessons to Life! Staci Trekles Milligan Clinical Assistant Professor Purdue University Calumet

Objectives By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Successfully interface with any interactive whiteboard device, including SMARTBoard, Promethean, StarBoard, and others Describe how interactive whiteboard technology can be useful in the classroom environment to engage students and present information more clearly Create lesson plans and instructional activities integrating interactive whiteboard technology

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Successfully interface with any interactive whiteboard device, including SMARTBoard, Promethean, StarBoard, and others

Describe how interactive whiteboard technology can be useful in the classroom environment to engage students and present information more clearly

Create lesson plans and instructional activities integrating interactive whiteboard technology

So what defines a “smartboard”? Interactive whiteboards, often referred to by the most popular brand name, “smartboard,” are whiteboard surfaces that interface with a computer and projector so users can manipulate the computer interface by touch or electronic pen. Self-contained LCD flat panel smartboards are also available.

Interactive whiteboards, often referred to by the most popular brand name, “smartboard,” are whiteboard surfaces that interface with a computer and projector so users can manipulate the computer interface by touch or electronic pen. Self-contained LCD flat panel smartboards are also available.

General Uses of Smartboards Dynamic replacement for traditional whiteboards, chalkboards, or flip charts for lectures and presentations Students can interact with computer media and programs on a larger scale, collaborate with others, and demonstrate what they know on-demand Allows user to record what is written and displayed onscreen so that students can go back and view any portion of a lesson Excellent for teaching computer software and problem-solving skills

Dynamic replacement for traditional whiteboards, chalkboards, or flip charts for lectures and presentations

Students can interact with computer media and programs on a larger scale, collaborate with others, and demonstrate what they know on-demand

Allows user to record what is written and displayed onscreen so that students can go back and view any portion of a lesson

Excellent for teaching computer software and problem-solving skills

Smartboards in the Subject Areas Language Arts: Brainstorming, editing, 6+1 Writing Process, highlight words, electronic word walls, e-portfolios Math: Create and save formulas, graphs, and equations easily; have students demonstrate problem-solving skills on-the-fly or collaboratively Social Studies/Science Show relationships between words and ideas with Inspiration/Kidspiration, manipulate onscreen tools in interactive maps, simulations

Language Arts:

Brainstorming, editing, 6+1 Writing Process, highlight words, electronic word walls, e-portfolios

Math:

Create and save formulas, graphs, and equations easily; have students demonstrate problem-solving skills on-the-fly or collaboratively

Social Studies/Science

Show relationships between words and ideas with Inspiration/Kidspiration, manipulate onscreen tools in interactive maps, simulations

Do You Use a Smartboard? Please share how you use Smartboards in your classroom if you have access to one Or, if you don’t have access to one, what makes you want one for your classroom? What special advantages do you feel this technology could give you and your students?

Please share how you use Smartboards in your classroom if you have access to one

Or, if you don’t have access to one, what makes you want one for your classroom? What special advantages do you feel this technology could give you and your students?

Using a Smartboard The basic functionality of an interactive whiteboard allows you to “touch-click” projections from the computer on the whiteboard, essentially replacing the mouse with your fingertip Most whiteboards also come with electronic pens for writing and drawing over the screen, and all of your figures can be saved for future viewing Two minute tutorial videos: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp#

The basic functionality of an interactive whiteboard allows you to “touch-click” projections from the computer on the whiteboard, essentially replacing the mouse with your fingertip

Most whiteboards also come with electronic pens for writing and drawing over the screen, and all of your figures can be saved for future viewing

Two minute tutorial videos: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp#

SMART Board Tools SMART’s program features many of the same features you will find in other software; a list of training materials for all popular interactive whiteboards is found at the end of this presentation SMART Board Tools features: Notebook for drawing and writing Screen Capture (still images) Recorder (video) Keyboard (so you don’t have to go back and forth to the PC) Instant Conferencing with other SMARTBoard users Calculator Pointing and highlighting tools

SMART’s program features many of the same features you will find in other software; a list of training materials for all popular interactive whiteboards is found at the end of this presentation

SMART Board Tools features:

Notebook for drawing and writing

Screen Capture (still images)

Recorder (video)

Keyboard (so you don’t have to go back and forth to the PC)

Instant Conferencing with other SMARTBoard users

Calculator

Pointing and highlighting tools

SMART Board Tools You can draw and write anywhere and the SMART Board Tools can recognize your handwriting and convert it to text, as well as recognize the shapes you create, with the Shape Recognition Pen tool You can also add sounds or hyperlinks to drawn objects Many fill effects and colors are available for both shapes and text Notebook files can be edited at the computer later on if needed, and can be exported as several easily accessible file types, including Web pages, graphic formats, or PDF

You can draw and write anywhere and the SMART Board Tools can recognize your handwriting and convert it to text, as well as recognize the shapes you create, with the Shape Recognition Pen tool

You can also add sounds or hyperlinks to drawn objects

Many fill effects and colors are available for both shapes and text

Notebook files can be edited at the computer later on if needed, and can be exported as several easily accessible file types, including Web pages, graphic formats, or PDF

SMART Gallery and Online Resources SMART Notebook comes with a huge gallery of media resources, including pictures, sounds, and videos to enhance your lessons You can drag and drop gallery media into SMART Notebook pages anytime you need them Want more? Try SMART free online lessons: http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/ Or visit the SMART Exchange Community (free registration): http://exchange.smarttech.com/Default.aspx?lang=en-US

SMART Notebook comes with a huge gallery of media resources, including pictures, sounds, and videos to enhance your lessons

You can drag and drop gallery media into SMART Notebook pages anytime you need them

Want more? Try SMART free online lessons: http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/

Or visit the SMART Exchange Community (free registration): http://exchange.smarttech.com/Default.aspx?lang=en-US

Let’s Experiment! Let’s take some time to experiment and work with with the Smartboard in small groups Don’t be shy – explore the software at length to figure out what things do to help you consider what you might like to do in your own class

Let’s take some time to experiment and work with with the Smartboard in small groups

Don’t be shy – explore the software at length to figure out what things do to help you consider what you might like to do in your own class

Integrating Smartboard Technology Bringing interactive whiteboard technology into the classroom effectively means taking advantage of the smartboard’s features For example, when you or your students do presentations, use the pens to highlight important points Or, bring media from the Notebook Gallery into demonstrations or encourage students to use them to illustrate what they are learning Some common programs are “ink-aware” such as MS Office, and work seamlessly with the smartboard to record, allow for highlighting and handwriting recognition, and so on By its nature, smartboards allow more than one person to interact with the computer interface, so encourage collaborative assignments

Bringing interactive whiteboard technology into the classroom effectively means taking advantage of the smartboard’s features

For example, when you or your students do presentations, use the pens to highlight important points

Or, bring media from the Notebook Gallery into demonstrations or encourage students to use them to illustrate what they are learning

Some common programs are “ink-aware” such as MS Office, and work seamlessly with the smartboard to record, allow for highlighting and handwriting recognition, and so on

By its nature, smartboards allow more than one person to interact with the computer interface, so encourage collaborative assignments

Integrating Smartboard Technology A vast array of standards-based lessons integrating smartboards can be found at: http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/United+States/

A vast array of standards-based lessons integrating smartboards can be found at: http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/United+States/

More Great Lessons and Sites to Explore Huge list of highly interactive websites, perfect for use with a smartboard: http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/content/interactivesites.html SMARTBoard, Airliner, and Senteo activities: http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm Interactive Whiteboard lessons and resources: http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/whiteboards.html Interactive Whiteboard Project: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/14.cfm Birmingham Grid for Learning Whiteboard Resources: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm

Huge list of highly interactive websites, perfect for use with a smartboard: http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/content/interactivesites.html

SMARTBoard, Airliner, and Senteo activities: http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm

Interactive Whiteboard lessons and resources: http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/whiteboards.html

Interactive Whiteboard Project: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/14.cfm

Birmingham Grid for Learning Whiteboard Resources: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm

Creating Your Own Lessons Make them as simple or advanced as you need them to be Setting up workspaces in the Notebook and saving them in advance allows you to get right into the lesson Also, don’t forget to save your Notebook files as you do on-the-fly demonstrations and activities in class – you can edit and reuse these anytime you need them again, as well as share them with students who were absent Need more help? http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+resources/default.htm

Make them as simple or advanced as you need them to be

Setting up workspaces in the Notebook and saving them in advance allows you to get right into the lesson

Also, don’t forget to save your Notebook files as you do on-the-fly demonstrations and activities in class – you can edit and reuse these anytime you need them again, as well as share them with students who were absent

Need more help? http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+resources/default.htm

Create YOUR Smartboard Lesson! For the second half of the class, you will develop/adapt your own lesson integrating smartboard technology Before we leave for the day, be prepared to present your lesson to the rest of us Provide for us: The goals for the lesson (objectives) What you and students will do during the lesson (activities) How you will evaluate student learning and technology effectiveness (assessment)

For the second half of the class, you will develop/adapt your own lesson integrating smartboard technology

Before we leave for the day, be prepared to present your lesson to the rest of us

Provide for us:

The goals for the lesson (objectives)

What you and students will do during the lesson (activities)

How you will evaluate student learning and technology effectiveness (assessment)

Special Smartboard Software SMART Technologies: SMART Board Tools/SMART Notebook SMART Ideas Senteo Response System SMARTSync/SyncronEyes Promethean: ActivSoftware Hitachi StarBoard StarBoard Viewer Mult-e-Maths Toolbox

SMART Technologies:

SMART Board Tools/SMART Notebook

SMART Ideas

Senteo Response System

SMARTSync/SyncronEyes

Promethean:

ActivSoftware

Hitachi StarBoard

StarBoard Viewer

Mult-e-Maths Toolbox

Special Smartboard Software Mimio Mimio Studio eInstruction Interwrite CPS Interwrite Workspace, Content, Clicker software, and Reader

Mimio

Mimio Studio

eInstruction Interwrite CPS

Interwrite Workspace, Content, Clicker software, and Reader

Resources SMARTBoards (includes free software downloads): http://www.smarttech.com Hitachi StarBoard (includes free software downloads): http://starboard.hitachi-soft.com/jsp/hitachi/hitachisoft/icg/index_t.html Promethean ActivBoard: http://www.prometheanworld.com Promethean lessons and resources available at http://www.prometheanplanet.com eInstruction Interwrite (includes free software downloads): http://www.interwritelearning.com/ Literature on interactive whiteboard technologies: http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/interactive_whiteboards.cfm Interactive whiteboards in the classroom: http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html

SMARTBoards (includes free software downloads): http://www.smarttech.com

Hitachi StarBoard (includes free software downloads): http://starboard.hitachi-soft.com/jsp/hitachi/hitachisoft/icg/index_t.html

Promethean ActivBoard: http://www.prometheanworld.com

Promethean lessons and resources available at http://www.prometheanplanet.com

eInstruction Interwrite (includes free software downloads): http://www.interwritelearning.com/

Literature on interactive whiteboard technologies: http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/interactive_whiteboards.cfm

Interactive whiteboards in the classroom: http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html

Resources SMART Technologies Training Center: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/index.asp PrometheanPlanet support and user guides: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.1156 Mimio Web-Based training: http://www.mimio.com/training/index.asp StarBoard User’s Guides: http://starboard.hitachi-soft.com/jsp/hitachi/hitachisoft/icg/product_manuals/index_t.html Interwrite CPS tutorials and training: http://www.interwritelearning.com/support/training.php

SMART Technologies Training Center: http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/index.asp

PrometheanPlanet support and user guides: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.1156

Mimio Web-Based training: http://www.mimio.com/training/index.asp

StarBoard User’s Guides: http://starboard.hitachi-soft.com/jsp/hitachi/hitachisoft/icg/product_manuals/index_t.html

Interwrite CPS tutorials and training: http://www.interwritelearning.com/support/training.php

Resources Staci’s website: http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/Faculty/trekles Staci’s blog and downloadable presentations: http://stacimilligan.edublogs.org Staci’s email: [email_address] Purdue Calumet Graduate Studies in Education and Educator License Renewal Program: http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/education/grad

Staci’s website: http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/Faculty/trekles

Staci’s blog and downloadable presentations: http://stacimilligan.edublogs.org

Staci’s email: [email_address]

Purdue Calumet Graduate Studies in Education and Educator License Renewal Program: http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/education/grad