Smart+Board+TC

//Members: Monica, Lorraine, Cris Robson, Joanna,Katie Collins, Lourdes, Jennifer (new tech instructor at Nash) In attendance: Cris, Joanna, and Katie// Goal- Create a lesson advancing to next step (midrange) on the rubric during the Fall and another going up another step (advanced) during the Spring. Intend to share lessons with school/district, and to place them on the Smartboard pages (if copyright is okay).
 * SmartBoards-**

update November 28, 2007 Progress has been made in making our mid-level lessons, however, they need to be finalized. We will bring our completed lessons to our next meeting. We can discuss what the advanced once should look like; what we can do to make them advanced. We will evaluate and give feedback to each other to meet that goal.

Current [|Smart Board newsletter] with ideas, lesson plans, resources and information about version 10.0 [|Amphi Smart Board Resources] - check out Smart Board podcast (they banter a lot but have good links and resources), Intel tools are perfect for higher level thinking and Smart Board and numerous resources to check out and share with teachers.

This is a nice compilation of [|SmartBoard resources for primary grades K-5] that was put together by Nan LeFebure- Canada
 * Here is a list from Peggy George that she shares with her teachers:**

Great Sites for [|Using the SMARTboard K-3]

[|Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way] (Eduscapes - Annette Lamb)

[|Primary Interactive White Board Resources]-For Key stages 1,2,3 and Foundations-math, literacy, science and other subjects

[|Jefferson County Schools-Interactive Websites] for Grades Pre K-12

[|Smartboard Notebook Files created by Lakeland Teachers], NY

[|Getting On & Falling Out-SEAL Interactive Smartboard Files] for friendship, cooperation & resolving conflict, feelings, managing & understanding anger, working together

[|Worthwhile Websites for Learning] - Here's another really good website to share with teachers so they can tell their students/parents about these great resources. While it is a Canadian website and some of the links are unique to the curriculum/ communities in Alberta Canada, many of them are useful anywhere. I'm sure you'll recognize lots of them. It's a fantastic collection of websites for students and parents (grades K-6). Division 1 sites are K-3 and Division 2 sites are 4-6. Teachers could use lots of these sites with their SmartBoards for in-class instruction. It's an amazing resource!!!

[|First Grade Backpack-Reading] - If you haven't discovered this website, you are going to want to take a look at it and explore all of the wonderful links!!! It is the most amazing collection of beginning reading websites I have found in one location. There are online stories, poems, interactive games, phonics activities and much, much more!! It would be great for kids to use independently or for teachers to use with SmartBoards. It is designed for first grade, but it could really be appropriate for any primary grades, and would be great for ELL students. Have fun exploring!!!

[|A great SmartBoard resource]

Working with [|SmartBoards to support student-centered inquiry-based learning]

[|Technology in Motion-SmartBoard Basics] (University of Alabama)

January 16: Katie shared her smart board lesson. For the all day meeting at Harelson: We will create and share lessons. We will also make a list of found lessons/sites focusing on the needs of our own teaching. Peggy has the right to take a rest and get a drink on us.

March 26th We talked about :
 * What qualities make a SMART lesson effective
 * Looked at Lourdes recently created WebQuest
 * Looked at math resources that can be intergrated into SMART board lessons
 * Looked at the math resources to see what level of Blooms Taxonomy

April 23, 2008

What went well.
 * We feel we've all improved in our SmartBoard knowledge and ability
 * We got great ideas from each other
 * We found new resources which some of us added to our Tech School collaborative wiki pages
 * We got along and bonded even though we were a big group. We stayed on task or on topical tangents.

What could have gone better?
 * One member felt the tangents were interesting but didn't pertain to her situation.
 * One member felt that she needed more constructive feedback on her work.
 * We're finding out today that there was lack of communication and not even feelings about how the year went.
 * People need to be timely with comments so they can be addressed at the time.