More and more schools are beginning to use Smart Boards.
Interactive Smart Boards allow teachers to instruct students using the Internet on a large board. Teachers can then use special markers to draw on the visual created by the Internet or a document. Smart Boards are especially useful because they help teachers reach students through multiple teaching styles. For example, students can learn visually, through pictures or video, and they can draw or annotate on the Smart Board, stimulating hands-on learning.
Instructions
1. Find Internet sites that are tied to your lesson. Search for sites that you can refer to during your lecture. Save the sites in your favorites. You can use the sites to make points during your discussion and spark conversation with the students. As you refer to the sites and show them on the whiteboard, use the special markers created for the Smart Board to write notes. Invite the students to search for points, theories or main ideas in passages from the sites and circle or draw a line under them.
2. Show educational videos on the Smart Board and include your notes. Videos on DVDs can be projected to the class. You can draw a circle around a visual that you want to draw attention to. You can stop the video and ask a student to come up to the board and write a two or three sentence summary of a scene on the whiteboard.
3. Ask the students to create their own multimedia presentations. Students can create presentations using video and PowerPoint slides, illustrating what they have learned. You can use the interactive whiteboard to display the presentations, and other class members can critique the presentations, posting notes and comments on the whiteboard.
4. Share student essays with the class and edit them on the whiteboard. Erase students' names for privacy and use the whiteboard to present typed essays from a word-processing program, like Microsoft Word. Edit out wordy statements and ambiguous phrases. Draw arrows to illustrate how the essay can be reorganized, and show students use an online dictionary or thesaurus to improve word choices in their essays. Students can email their essays to you, or they can give you their essays on a disc.
5. Distribute handouts to the class electronically. Annotations that you write on the whiteboard and supplemental information that you type in a word-processing program can be distributed to the class via email or posted on a class blog. You will reduce time spent at a copier and reduce time spent distributing missed assignments to absent students. Students who may have missed a lecture will have access to these notes, and students will always have the handouts available to study for upcoming quizzes and tests.
Tags: Smart Board, Smart Boards, their essays, during your, reduce time, reduce time spent, sites that