Smartboards+in+K-5

Thanks to all who attended the session. Tom Patten - Hewitt School

Here are some main points to our discussion, feel free to edit:


 * Start simple when helping teachers integrate Smartboards as an instructional tool (ie. morning messages)
 * Great tool for kinesthetic/visual activities
 * If you're rolling out Smartboards, start with the rolling cart. There's an equity issue if one class is using vs. another class.
 * question arose...is anyone using another brand? Activboard by **Prometheus**, is used by one attendee.
 * Does the lesson stick with SB? It's about the lesson and good teaching (learning objectives in mind) w/smartboard as tool... should become invisible. a bad lesson is a bad lesson
 * Smartboard as learning center/have group use it in a scaffolded lesson during class
 * Teachers don't need to reinvent the wheel...an activity made with the Smart Notebook can probably be found on the web as a flash activity
 * Infinite cloner/Gallery are the most useful tools in
 * [|smarttech.com] is a great resource for templates which can be expanded
 * Somehow we got into a discussion on Clicker and foreign language instruction/works great with smartboard...will think of giving Clicker session on Thursday