2. SMART Board: What is it?
• A touch-sensitive
interactive white board
• Paired with a projector
• Connected to a computer
• Comes with four colored
“markers” and an eraser
• Works with the SMART
Notebook Software
Click here to
watch a video
about using a
SMART Board!
3. SMART Notebook
Software• FREE software for anyone with
SMART Board access
• Similar to PowerPoint but is
interactive
• The teacher choses what is locked
and what is “alive” during the
presentation
• Thousands of built-in images,
activities, backgrounds, and
animations categorized by subject
Click here to
download SMART
Notebook
software!
4. Teacher Use: BUilT in
appleTs
• SMART Notebook comes with built-in applets
• The one pictured below is for Algebra 2
– Graphs a standard parabola
– Shows how the graph changes as different numbers
are substituted for a, b, and c
5. Teacher Use: Seating Charts
• Teachers can make changeable seating charts
like the one pictured
• The rectangles mirror the classroom desk
arrangement
• Everything is locked but the students’ names
• Student names
can be dragged
to different desks
as the seating
chart needs to change
6. Teacher Use: Classroom Games
• SMART Notebook comes with many built-in tools
perfect for classroom games
• These tools include:
– Playing cards
– Spinners
– Dice
– And many
more…
7. Teacher Use:
Making Tests
• It is very simple to
make figures for tests
in SMART Notebook
• Figures can easily be
copied and pasted
into Microsoft Word
• The test to the right
was typed in MS Word
with figures made in
SMART Notebook
8. Teacher Use: Giving Notes
• Using the included “markers,” teachers can give
notes right on the SMART Board
• Save the notes at the end of the period
• If any students are absent that day, the notes can
easily be printed (or posted on a teacher web site)!
9. St udent Use: Put t ing Problems on t he Board
• Students love putting
problems on the
SMART Board
– Teachers can
demonstrate a few
problems and then
leave several “blank”
– Students can
volunteer or be called
on to answer
problems
10. Student Use: Venn Diagrams (Dragging)
• Students can drag
items on the SMART
Board to categorize or
sort
• The teacher can choose
what is “draggable”
– To the right, everything
is locked except the blue
words
– Students can come up
and drag the words to
the correct place on the
11. Student Use: TI – SMART View
• Texas Instruments provides interactive calculator
software to work with SMART Boards
• The calculator pictured below is touch-sensitive
• Students can come up and push the calculator
buttons while their peers follow along on their own
calculators!
12. Thank you
• Did you learn anything about SMART Boards
today?
• Any questions? Comments?
• Feel free to leave feedback on my blog.
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