Just a few days after the first day of school, we held our Open House. Parents are invited to hear an overview of the school year by the grade level teachers. First everyone assembled in our Activity Building, where the Principal and Board of Trustees welcomed the parents and go over some housekeeping items, then classroom teachers are dismissed to head to their classrooms while parents have a chance to visit with Resource teachers.

We had set up our new portable SmartBoard and invited parents to come up to the board to write a word “What the school meant to them” with the pen or their finger. It was amazing to see how many parents stood back and “almost” felt afraid to come forward to touch the board…. some started out and then backed off in the middle of the word… some marched to the front and had wrote in BIG bold letter their word… many just preferred to stand back and watch others…

It made me think of the completely different reaction/attitude I have observed in the children, when they were introduced to the SmartBoard this past week… All hands went up when asked who wanted to come up first to the board… no coaxing or  assurance that “You can do it”…

We then took the words and entered them in Wordle and came up with the following cloud.

Posted: 30. August, 2008 at 8:00 am. Filed under: SmartBoard.
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