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1. newsletter
May 2008
NEWS AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS USING SMART PRODUCTS
Gearing up for NECC
I N T H I S I SS U E N a N c y’S N oT E S
Follow the leader
Nancy’s Notes ........................................... 1
Classroom Content ...............................2–4
This simple childhood game
News ........................................................ 2 was always a fun one for me. It took
concentration and observation. As in
Contests ................................................... 3 the game, following the leader in the
adult world can be worthwhile.
Feature Article .......................................... 3
Just recently, the category share
SMART Showcase School Profile ............... 4 statistics* were released for interactive
whiteboards. Here’s how the report
Product Spotlight .................................. 5–6 stacked up for SMART:
• Globally, our share is up 10
points to 56.8 percent. This
a N oT E f r o m T H E E d I To r means that of all the world shipments, almost six in ten are from SMART
• In the United States, our share is up over 3 points to 59.4 percent
Welcome to the May issue of This all sounds good for us, but what does this mean for you? Good things, actually.
EDCompass™ newsletter!
Companies that lead their categories as we do are generally the companies that can afford
We’re a just a month away from the 29th
annual National Educational Computing to keep the innovation cycle alive and well. They can build resources and undertake a
Conference (NECC), North America’s largest variety of no-charge activities that enhance the adoption and use of their products. For
you, this means we’ll be around to support and look after you when you need us.
education technology show. This year, it takes
place June 29–July 2 in San Antonio, Texas.
The results of our investments are evident in our products:
SMART will be there again in full force, and
this issue of the newsletter gives you the • We have released version 10 of Notebook™ software, packed with lots of new
first glimpse of what to expect in our booth.
features
You can also read about a high school that
• We have built support for our new document camera into Notebook software
seamlessly implemented SMART products into
• Senteo™ interactive response system – well, you’ll hear about that soon enough
every math classroom and learn about our
newest SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard Beyond this, there are many new products and product enhancements coming.
that offers 20 percent more surface area.
As always, thanks for your support. We are committed to a great user experience for you
As always, if you have any comments about and hope we can help you make a difference in your students’ lives
the newsletter or any of the information
*Decision Tree Consulting Ltd, Interactive Displays / ICT Products Market: Quarterly Insight State of the Market Report, Quarter 4 2007,
featured in this issue, we’d love to hear Decision Tree Consulting Ltd, 31 January 2008. 1–8. Reprinted with permission.
from you. Please e-mail your feedback to
education@smarttech.com. Nancy Knowlton is the CEO of SMART Technologies.
May 2008 | PG 1
2. c l a SS r o o m c o N T E N T NEwS
Notebook software Visit us at NECC
lesson activities
If you’re attending NECC this year, you can be among the first to learn about
our new products that will be available later this year. While you’re there, stop by our
booth, 8145, to chat with SMART’s product experts and teachers who use SMART
products every day. They’ll share some best practices, and you’ll be able to watch them
demonstrate lessons on a SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard. We’re also giving away
many products throughout the show, so you’ll want to stay close to our booth.
Find Hundreds of high-quality The conference will be held at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center on the San
K–12 lesson activities on the education Antonio River Walk in San Antonio, Texas. We look forward to the opportunity to meet
solutions website. Each lesson is correlated with you face to face to answer your questions and hear how you’re using SMART
to local curriculum standards and created products in your classroom.
by classroom teachers or SMART’s team of
curriculum resource developers. Look for more details and a printable schedule of events taking place at our booth in the
June issue of the newsletter.
Here are a few of our newest lesson activities
to try with your students. This month, we’ve
included a Father’s Day lesson activity to use
SMART training event
in your language arts class.
Tracing Shapes
Do you want to learn about the SMART Board interactive whiteboard,
K–3 math students can learn how to trace
Notebook software, and interactive lesson and instructional design? We’re offering
and identify different geometric shapes.
a full-day level I training event at NECC for new users of the SMART Board interactive
Father’s Day Poems whiteboard on Monday, June 30. Registration is US$499 and includes a learner workbook,
a free AirLiner™ wireless slate and a complimentary CD with sample SMART-created
Students in grades 4–6 language arts classes
lesson activities. You’ll also receive a demonstration on how you can use the Senteo™
can learn how to compose their own Father’s
interactive response system to instantly and accurately gauge student understanding.
Day poems.
What Country Am I In? We only have room for 100 people, so register today by e-mailing training@smarttech.com.
Social studies students in grades 7–9 can
learn about different countries and where We offer affordable training events throughout North America for a range of SMART
product users, from novice to advanced. Visit SMART’s website for a list of upcoming
they are on the world map through clues
given about that particular country. training sessions in your area.
May 2008 | PG 2
3. c o N T E ST S c l a SS r o o m c o N T E N T
Speak up for a chance to win SMART-accredited
software
Tell us how you are currently using or would like to use a document camera or
audio system in your classroom, and you could win a SMART Document Camera
and SMART Audio. Both these products work with Notebook software, so you can
experience seamlessly integrated lessons.
To enter this contest, share your best practices and anecdotes on the SMART Exchange
discussion board. We’re giving away three prize packages every month from May to
October 30, 2008. You can enter once a month, but each of your posts must include
original content.
Visit the SMART Exchange for contest details.
Share, vote and win – back to school
You still have three weeks left to upload your best back-to-school lesson
activities to the SMART Exchange. You’ll instantly be entered to win a SMART Board
600i interactive whiteboard system and a one-year subscription to the SMART Learning
The SMART Software Accreditation
Marketplace. This prize package has an approximate value of US$3,500.
Program now has 200 multimedia content
The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2008. If you are not already a member of the and software titles from 70 companies,
SMART Exchange, sign up today and start posting your lessons. including Texas Instruments, Tom Snyder
Productions: A Scholastic Company,
Visit the SMART Exchange for full contest details. McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Learning
Technology.
The program recognizes content
f E aT U r E a r T I c l E
and software based on their level of
compatibility with SMART Board interactive
The places you will go whiteboards and Sympodium™ interactive
pen displays.
“What will we discover Consider these new SMART-accredited software
today?” Patricia Deibert asks this and content titles for your next lessons:
every morning when she arrives
Classroom Suite 4 is a unique intervention
at her classroom and powers up
her SMART Board™ interactive tool that combines direct instruction with a
whiteboard. A biology and flexible environment to help students in grades
chemistry teacher at Sheboygan pre K–5 achieve mastery in reading, writing
Falls High School in Wisconsin’s and math.
Sheboygan Falls, Deibert says her
Great Source Reading Advantage®
students’ understanding of some
Ezines CD-ROM helps struggling readers
very difficult scientific concepts
is enhanced through hands-on improve their comprehension, vocabulary and
learning projects facilitated by overall reading fluency with highly engaging,
SMART products. interactive articles designed for students in
Read the full article. grades 6–12 who read below their grade level.
May 2008 | PG 3
4. c l a SS r o o m c o N T E N T S m a r T S H owc a S E Sc H o o l p r o f I l E
Power your lessons Naperville high school brings cutting-edge
with the Toolkit teaching tools to math students
After Sharon Fischer walked into her
math classroom six years ago and saw a
SMART Board interactive whiteboard at the
front of the room, teaching geometry to
her students in grades 10–12 was never the
same again.
In 2002, Scott Miller, instructional coordinator
for the math department at Naperville
Central High School in Naperville, Illinois,
began a pilot project in Fischer’s class
and mounted a SMART Board interactive
whiteboard at the front of the room.
Fischer had briefly seen a demonstration
on a SMART Board interactive whiteboard,
but she had never used one herself and
was amazed at how easy it was to operate.
“I was blown away with how quickly I got
comfortable using the SMART Board, and
I just jumped right in on that first day of
school,” says Fischer. “My students were
wowed when they saw what I was teaching them, and the other teachers were in awe with
what I could do. They didn’t realize … it’s just easy to learn. I quickly started building up my
Gallery with geometric shapes that I could use at any time in my lessons. That has been a
Have you downloaded the full huge time-saver for me.”
version of the Lesson Activity Toolkit that
Soon after that, all 25 teachers in the math department wanted an interactive whiteboard in
was launched last month? We put together
useful tips and tricks to help you build their classrooms. Now, SMART Board interactive whiteboards can be found in 75 classrooms
at Naperville Central, with orders for more in the 2008–2009 school year.
lessons that will energize your class.
Miller was impressed with the way students began interacting with lessons. This encouraged
Watch nine Adobe® Flash® video tutorials
him to introduce the Senteo interactive response system into his math department. Students
that will teach you how to do the following:
began to improve and they wanted to learn more. “Students are excited about taking tests
using Senteo, and that is very refreshing to hear from them,” says Miller, who plans to
• Customize your Tile activities with sounds
purchase more next year.
and images
Naperville Central became the 100th SMART Showcase School in February. Even prior to
• Incorporate graphics and games into your
becoming a Showcase School, teachers at Naperville were giving presentations on SMART
lessons
products to teachers in schools at the local and national level, and the requests haven’t
stopped. “Since becoming a Showcase School, we’ve received more calls from schools
• Jazz up your lessons using the Checker wanting to visit us,” says Miller. “Just this past week, I’ve had two schools contact me to see
tool, Pull tabs and other images. the SMART Board in action, and I’m really excited about that.”
Download the Toolkit now to start creating If you would like to visit Naperville Central High School to talk with educators about their
success and see firsthand how they’re putting SMART products to work, visit the SMART
your own lessons, and then share your ideas
Showcase School section on our website.
with other teachers on the SMART Exchange.
May 2008 | PG 4
5. p r o d U c T S p oT l I g H T
SMART Board 685 interactive whiteboard SMART Board interactive
whiteboard facts
“Bigger is better” is the expression we’re hearing from educators around the world.
Having more work space when you use your interactive whiteboard to teach a lesson not • In 1991, SMART created the world’s first
only helps you become more efficient, but it is likely to become a standard in classrooms and most popular interactive whiteboard
around the world.
• SMART has consistently led the interactive
whiteboard category. It has a 53 percent
In response to your needs and those of computer and projector manufacturers, we’re
share in the education segment in the
giving you optimal viewing and teaching space with the new wide-format SMART Board
685 interactive whiteboard. The 685 offers you and your students 20 percent more United States and a 57 percent share in
working space than a SMART Board 680 interactive whiteboard. Our newest interactive the United Kingdom
whiteboard has a 16:10 aspect ratio that measures 87 inches (221 cm) on the diagonal.
This increases your working space on an interactive whiteboard to a size similar to a regular • The award-winning family of SMART
whiteboard or chalkboard, and it supports the growing number of wide-screen projectors Board interactive whiteboards is the most
that are entering the education market segment. widely installed in the world because of
its unsurpassed product quality, durability,
versatility and ease of use
A wider perspective from an elementary teacher • The SMART Board interactive whiteboard
is used to teach over 18 million students
in more than 600,000 classrooms in more
“I’m excited to start using the SMART Board 685 with my third-grade students,” than 100 countries around the world
says Kevin Egan from B.W. Tinker School in Waterbury, Connecticut. “The wider aspect
• SMART Board interactive whiteboards can
board will allow me to address the differentiated needs of my students, and for any
be operated with a finger, pen tool or any
teacher, that is invaluable. The bigger the interactive whiteboard, the more material you
object, addressing the widely divergent
can work with … I can use half the SMART Board for instruction targeted to students who
needs of millions of users
learn at one pace, while simultaneously using the other half to rephrase the same lesson
content for students who might require a bit more time.
• The SMART Board 600 series has five
sizes – 640, 660, 680, 685 and 690
Teachers are used to working with a long whiteboard or chalkboard, and they split it up into
thirds or halves so that they can present multiple lessons or equations simultaneously, without
having to worry about erasing anything. I often use the Dual Page Display on my SMART Board • SMART is the only company offering two
680 interactive whiteboard because that allows me to get material on two pages in the same wide-format interactive whiteboards
view. With the new 685 it will be that much easier to view the Dual Page Display.
• The 685 offers 20 percent more and the
I think it’s great that as electronics get bigger and better, the SMART Board is following 690 offers 30 percent more working area
right along with that trend.” than the 680
May 2008 | PG 5