The document provides an introduction to SMART Boards, which are large interactive whiteboards that allow users to control a computer using touch inputs. It discusses the key components of SMART Boards, including a projector to display the computer's video and digital pens that use active digitization for writing. The document also outlines some advantages, such as enabling virtual field trips and interactive lessons, and disadvantages, such as requiring orientation if bumped and casting shadows. It provides an overview of common SMART Board tools and functions.

1. Beginner Training 01/05/11 Karen Brooks

2. Introduction to Smart Boards http://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp The SMART Board is a large whiteboard that uses any of a handful of touch technologies for detecting user input (e.g. scrolling interaction) that are equivalent to normal PC input devices, such as mice or keyboards. Some sort of projector is used to display a computer's video output onto the whiteboard, which then acts as a huge touch screen. The SMART Board usually comes with 4 digital writing utensils that use digital ink replacing the traditional whiteboard markers. The digital ink work by using an active digitizer that controls the PC input information for writing capabilities such as drawing or handwriting. http:// www.smarttech.com

3. Advantages http://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp You open the world up for your classroom. There are many virtual field trips out on the web, and you can tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art , go on a field trip to a swampland, or tour of a Martian rock field. What could be better than that? It's as though you are really standing on Mars! Also you can interact with the various buttons on the web site you choose. Kids love to go up and click on a birdsong, for example, or start a penmanship animation going. The smart board is large, and really commands attention so children stay focused. Large animations can show the relationships between objects, such as with planet orbits in the solar system, or the interaction among molecules. Another great feature is that you can use colored "markers" that can be used to circle things on the screen. Kids loved that since they could point out a spot on a map, or a grammar mistake, etc. for the whole class. The Library of Congress is there for the taking, and in a large enough format so that you can read books together, sing songs, and show a Van Gogh print in larger than life size. I could go on and on.

4. Disadvantages http://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp The Smart Boards can be a bit touchy. You had to orient the board if someone bumps it. (The markers could be off by quite a ways if you didn't orient the board frequently.) This can be annoying. In certain models, the projector light casts a shadow on the the board until you get out of the way. Rear projection and LCD based Smart Boards don't have that problem. The smart board system is heir to the same problems that a computer and projector setup have, since you need a laptop to find the web sites and a projector to project the images on the Smart Board. Sometimes the web site is down, or plugs don't work, etc. I found that finding the sites on my classroom computer did not translate to the laptop we had hooked up in another room. I'd then have to send myself an email and open it on the laptop hooked to the white board. It was easier finding the web sites on the laptop and making a bookmark on the laptop. Expensive, and therefore not everyone can have one. The bulbs for the projector are very expensive.

5. How are you using the SMARTboard? What tools are you using? Use: Attendance Lessons Examples Interactions/Interactive Websites Interactive Lessons Simulations Virtual Field Trips Etc. Tools: Notebook Notebook Tools Recorder Camera Document Camera DVD Player Ink layer/Pens Locating Lesson Templates Etc?

6. Roger’s Adoption Curve Where do you fall?

7. Session One I will be able to: Connect the SMARTBoard to a computer using wireless or USB connection. Orient the SMARTBoard. Learn what the tools are and what can be done on a SMARTBoard Know where to find already created resources and templates. Access and use a website using the SMARTBoard. Open and use a computer program using the SMARTBoard. Activate and use the on-screen keyboard. Write onscreen with Smart pens. Erase writing using eraser or tools. Open Smart Notebook. Use the handwriting recognition tool turning writing into text Sizing Text in SMARTNotes Creating Interactive Text Save worksheets to Smart Notebook. Access tutorials in the Smart Teacher’s Hub How to clean the SMARTBoard.

8. Karen’s KISS Principle for Technology

9. Break Out Activity Teams of Two Turn on and Connect and orient the SMARTBoard in the classroom. Follow this Guide – Given in Class: http://www.emich.edu/facdev/resources/training/Hands_on_practice.pdf Find a Lesson on Tequipment you would like to play with and edit. Open the SMARTNotes file and play with it to edit it. Write down questions to review at the end of the course.

10. Constructive Reinforcement AKA Homework Plan and use one SmartBoard activity before the next session Find and edit a lesson or Template and/or; Use an Interactive Website Reflect on how the use of the SmartBoard assisted and/or motivated student learning during the activity as well as how it affected my teaching style .

11. Finding Material Tequipment – Educator Resource Center – Software Downloads - http://www.teq.com/software-downloads/ Districts in NY that use them - http://www.teq.com/districts-schools/ Resources - http://www.teq.com/resources/ Educator Center - http://community.teqsmart.org/news.php SMART Exchange Lesson Finder - http://exchange.smarttech.com/curriculum.html#New%20York%20Core%20Curriculum Districts with SMARTboard Pages - http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/Web+Links SMARTboard Quickstart Guide - http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/file/view/SmartBoard+Quickstart+guide.pdf Trouble Shooting Connections – http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/file/view/Troubleshooting+Connections.pdf SMARTBoard YOUTUBE Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlgGpVpgWo SMART 2 Minute Tutorials - http://www.smarttech.com/us/Resources/Training/Training+Search

12. My Resources My Resources http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/ http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com http://www.delicious.com/dembe01 More Resource http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=248,index http://mrsgebauer.com/smartboard.html Delicious Resources: http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/science http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/ss http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/ela http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/math http://www.delicious.com/dembe01/languages

13. Tutorials http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2008/01/smartboard-recorder-and-video-player.html http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2008/02/smart-board-overview-notes-for-novice.html http://karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com/2007/12/smartboard-overview-professional.html

14. Resources Ulster County SMARTBoard Center http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/ Black Spaghetti http://blackspaghetti.wikispaces.com/Interactive%20Whiteboards SMARTBoard Videos - http://smartboardcenter.wikispaces.com/SMARTBoard+Videos Mrs. Blossom – Online SMARTBoard Course - https://www.blossomlearning.com/default.aspx Faculty Training Center http://www.emich.edu/facdev/resources/training/smartboardindex.html Mark Twain Gifted and Talented School http://is239.schoolwires.com/140310216155638483/site/default.asp International Interactive WhiteBoard Challenge - http://iwbchallenge.wikispaces.com/ MORE

15. Karen Brooks Ulster BOCES/Model Schools [email_address] http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com http:// www.karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com