Getting smarter with SmartBoards...
Visited a great idea site about SmartBoards (interactive whiteboards) today.
Check out http://www.waukesha.k12.wi.us/WIT/SmartBoard/specificapps.htm for a number of great suggestions, including the two listed below!
Absent Teacher, Absent Student, Good Instruction!
Use the SmartBoard to prepare a lecture and training sessions and burn it to a cd. Then use it for "substitute lesson plans" on a day you have to be gone. No more lost time when the teacher has to be out and very easy for the substitute to deliver! Also, if you have students who are out frequently due to health difficulties, they can experience instruction that goes further than worksheets!
Creative Assessment Techniques
Portfolio assessment can be done using microphone and SmartBoard recorder. Student presents project research on SmartBoard during class. During parent/teacher conference, the taped original presentation is shown to parents and the original work could be considered a draft. Students can go to draft presentation and make corrections. Teachers and parents can then view and hear corrections or though processes of learning and revising.