Through interacting with SMART Board software on my
computer, and experimenting with an actual SMART Board in a classroom, I have
learned a lot about the SMART board this week. In class I learned how
to find lesson plans for the SMART Board, download them, and maneuver through
them. On my own, I have experimented with building lesson pages and copying,
pasting, inserting pictures, sounds and interactive objects into my new pages.
I feel like I have gained the basic knowledge on how to build and present a
lesson on a SMART Board. However, I also see that there is so much more to
learn, such as how to build interactive objects and pages. I wonder where I can
download pictures of things that I cannot find in the SMART Exchange gallery. Although
the SMART Board works great for presenting an interactive lesson, I wonder
whether there are perks to using a SMART Board when practicing things like math
problems on a white board.
I love being able to find my way around the SMART Board, and am enjoying
interacting with the SMART software. However, just like any new piece of
equipment, the more I learn, the more questions I have about
it.
Heather, I had questions about how to utilize the SMART Board for math too! I've been playing around with it a little bit since I downloaded it. If you're just going through problems as a class on the board, I haven't found much. But, if you were doing a unit on geometry or graphing, there are a lot of things you can use the SMART Board for. Showing relationships between equations and their graph is something that can easily be done. Another thing that I thought was pretty cool was being able to show 3-dimensional objects on the board as a visual to your class for stuff like geometry or the difference between area, surface area, and perimeter. Just some of the stuff I found so far!
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