Despues de un año, tuve otra oportunidad de hablar con docentes en el colegio alemán Goethe en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Esta vez fue una capacitación en Pizarras Interactivas (Smart Board)
El objetivo de la capacitación fue una introducción a las funciones y posibiliades del SmartBoard Notebook 10 software y despertar la conciencia a la diferencia entre [...]

I have created several charts for my students with the table feature of SmartBoard Notebook. Although working with tables is not very intuitive, nor can they be as easily manipulated as in MS Office products, they have produced nice results with students. Students took ownership in their own learning and were actively involved in creating [...]

In an effort to collect and archive SmartBoard tips and lesson ideas, here is a cross post from an older entry at the TechConnect Blog.
What if we asked our students to become the teachers? What if we asked our students to articulate the process of something that they have learned? The SmartBoard hsoftware includes the [...]

In an effort to collect and archive SmartBoard tips and lesson ideas, here is a cross post from an older entry at the TechConnect Blog.
Pre-Kindergarten and first grade students have been studying President Washington and Lincoln.
Pre-Kindergarten watched two short video clips from Discovery Education about the two famous Americans in TechConnect and then found graphic [...]

As I am preparing for a SmartBoard workshop here in Argentina:

I found the following tweet on my iPhone, them favorited it with Twitterfon

Opened it up on my laptop to click myself through to the website of Danny Nicholson The WhiteBoard Blog
That in turn let me to a new promising YouTube show of eduTacher Steve [...]

On Teqsmart, I saw the following post about Creating a Reset button in a Smartboard Notebook file. Many times over the past year, I wish I would have been able to reset a student activity. Students were working individually and wanted to repeat an activity or students from different classes of the same grade level [...]

The very talented Jane Cassette has created a wonderful SmartBoard notebook file for her Kindergarten class. She wanted to create a way to make her daily calendar time more interactive and personalized.
Now why is this calendar any different that the poster bulletin board type most elementary school classrooms use?

Image by riaskiff
SmartBoard Calendar has the ability [...]

Many times there is pressure to teach the “traditional” Office programs (word processing/spreadsheet/presenting software) in school. Parents and administrators have something tangible to see/say that their child/student is learning/getting computer skills. It is harder to recognize/put your fingers on skills like communication, collaboration and connections.
So far, we had started first graders out on using PP [...]

Title:      SMART Best Practices
Presenter: Lori Reed (Twitter) (Blog)
Description:  Presentation will focus on layering lessons with digital content using SMART Notebook 10, streaming video, audio, and flash activities with an interactive white board.

“Biggest change in Technology or the fight to stop it”
Making the most of Notebook Software-
Different way to engage  students. Lori participated in the [...]

Title:      Help! I’ve Got a SMART Board — Now What Do I Do?
Presenter:     Mrs. Cindy Booth
Description:     Come and see some proven tips and tricks for getting started with a SMART Interactive White Board in your elementary classroom!

Presenter is a 2nd grade teacher. She has had her SmartBord for 1 1/2 years.
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