Ze's Technology PowerPoint

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Technology PowerPoint

• Ze Zeon
• (Computers in the Curriculum) GE 555-01
• Fall 2010
• Prof. Lori Schmidt

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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!
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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!
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)!

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Student Use Putting Problems on the 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

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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 flow chart

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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!

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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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Credits

• Google Images
• Microsoft Word
• SMART Board
• SMART Notebook
• Texas Instruments