A smart board is an interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. The smart board offers a lot to both teachers and students. The three basics of the smart board are the touch screen, writing with the digital pens, and the saving. Each one of these offers an unique experience. The smart board specific software that is compatible with it. The software is called the smart notebook. The smart notebook is an interactive program that allows you to choose lessons, wallpapers, themes, pictures, and whatever else you can imagine.
Teacher Uses
Teach interactive lessons
Easy to use
Opens up multimedia opportunities
Stimulates different learning styles
Word processing
Surf the Web with your students
Read electronic books with students
Use for different appliucations that the smart board offers
*Timer
*Flashcards
*Images
Typing Functions
*Templates
` *Graphs
*Tables
*Computer like applications- saving, uploading, compiling data
*Sound and video clips
Student Uses
Highly motivated to learn
Inbteract in physical and mental way
Use it for different subjects: language arts (spelling) math (add, subtract, multiply, and divide)
Interaction with fellow students and the teacher
Solve problems and answer questions using the smart board
Resources to use for smart board
Using Smart boardVideos 1 & 2: Jason Stone, an instructional designer for Oklahoma State and professor for 9 years, explains why professors should be using the smart board in their curriculum.
Smart board lesson Ideas: this website was created by a fellow teacher. The resources on this website are valuable. She provides you with additional websites that have lesson plans and ideas specifically for the smart board along with training modules and learning basic knowledge about the smartboard.
Miller, Lori (2002, Oct). Retrieved September 7, 2009, from Smart board Lesson Ideas Website:
Maximizing Your Smart board with Smart board tools: This website provides manny training and instruction documents to downlaod to gain better knowledge and usage of the smart board. Also, different links and templates are available as well.
Maximizing Your Smart board with Smart Tool. Retrieved September 15, 2009, from
Smart board Interactive Whiteboard Lessons and Resources for Teachers: This website contains lesson activities for chidren to learn from using Smart board. It provided many activities for each subject as well as other information about smart board.
(2009). Scholastic Interactive Whiteboards Lessons. Retrieved September 15, 2009, from
The Smart website is an amazing tool. This website provides videos on how to use the smart board along with ideas, articles, tranining options such as online, events, or free materials; products such as software, white boards, and projectors; support such as users guides, "how to's", and trouble shooting articles; information about the company; downloadable activities.
(2009). SMART Technologies, retrieved September 15, 2009, from SMART Teach Website:
Gerard, F. and Widener J. A SMARTer Way to Teach Foreign Language: The SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard as a Language Learning Tool. Retrieved September 7, 2009, from
Michelich, Virginia. (2002, Feb). Streaming Media to Enhance Teaching and Improve Learning. The Technology Source Archives. Retrieved September 7, 2009, from
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