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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.
Webpage – [...]

Groundhog day is just around the corner.
First graders predicted on the SmartBoard if the groundhog would see his shadow, hence signaling six more weeks of winter.
Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in United States and Canada on February 2.
In weather lore, if a groundhog, also known as a woodchuck, or marmot emerges from its burrow [...]

Excitement was in the room… you could feel the learning happening.
Just wanted to share with you a great lesson that just seemed to happened. Don’t you love these moments?
Scenario: First grade class was coming to TechConnect. All they teacher knew was that she wanted to do something related to “post inauguration”.
My colleague Paige McGee and [...]

The topic of our monthly Technology Professional Development workshop was Using your SmartBoard for Higher Level Thinking Skills.
I started out by revisiting the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy for the 21st Century, pointing out that “Create” had been added as the highest level of thinking skills.

Then I showed the video of “Pay Attention” which provided a great [...]

I have written about the SmartBoard Software and it’s  power to put the interactive in the IWB before. There is another cool feature of the Software that you might be able to use to customize and personalize images, stories, presentations, etc in order to get your students interested in what is going on “up there”.
Create [...]