38 Interesting Ways to use your Interactive Whiteboard by John P

 

 

Student Engagement Strategies

 

Questions to ask yourself to know you are ready to use your Interactive Whiteboard to its potential:

• How do I rate myself on level of familiarity with the software? 
  • Evaluate your comfort and skill with IWB with a rubric.  Amphi Site
• What are my goals for learning?  What are my goals for impacting Student Achievement?
• Do I have a collaborative group with whom I share my resources?
• Do you have the latest gallery/resources (eg:  ACTIV Resource pack) installed in your gallery?
• Do you currently make use of online resources with your Interactive Whiteboard? If so, which ones do you use most? (We recommend Discovery Streaming Videos, Recipes4Success & Thinkfinity through ADE's IDEAL site)
• Do you have software from your textbook adoptions installed on your computers? What is your adoption?
• Do you have computers available for student use in your room?  Do they have the Activ software?

 

Interactive Whiteboard Resources 

Our Favorites

Thinkfinity (interactives & resources)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

IDEAL & Discovery Streaming (must activate your free account through ADE & login)

Del.icio.us(Social Bookmarking)

Photo/Image Sites: Behold.cc and Flickr Storm

Big Huge Labs  (Image manipulation)

Promethean Planet

Flipchart Resources in this Wiki (upload yours here to share as well)

More Listed Below

 

Interactive Whiteboard Tutorials and Templates

http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html

Promethean Training Modules

Promethean Board Tips on Teacher Tube

Video Tutorials on iTunes

 Promethean Planet ActivTips

Promethean Planet Teacher Feature

"Boardcasting" with ActiveInspire Software

Atomic Learning videos

TeacherTube videos

    Activtips - Containers

    Activtips - Magic Revealer

    Activtips - Using Restrictors

 

Everything that can be

invented has been invented

- Charles H. Duell  Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents  1899

 

Community:  Posting Flipcharts & Screen Recordings

     Blogs of Interest

http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/blog/

Teachers love smartboards http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/

     Promethean Specific Social Network (Great Flipcharts, questions and discussions here)

Promethean Users Network (ning)

 

Community:  Posting Flipcharts & Screen Recordings

  Student samples (done using the software, not necessarily at the board)

http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/10/21/letting-kids-do-the-talking/

  Posting Places for Video  Recording teaching with SmartNotebook and posting online examples PS101

Flickr

Teacher Tube

 

 

More Interactive Whiteboard Resources 

Suggested Interactive Websites (from Thumann Resources)

Create Music Collaboratively - http://www.muxicall.com/

Make Your Own Flash Activities - http://www.classtools.net/

Virtual - Collaborative Whiteboard - http://skrbl.com/

Create a Talking Picture - http://blabberize.com/

Convert Lists to Mind Maps - http://www.text2mindmap.com/

Comic Strip Generator - http://www.pixton.com/home

Free Flash Resources for Teachers - http://www.sandfields.co.uk/games/games.html

Visual Search Engine - www.searchme.com

Periodic Table - http://www.dayah.com/periodic/

Math

Shine & Write http://www.transum.org/software/SW/

Jim Reed's Mathematics Flash Resources

New Zealand Math Numeracy Project Animations

 

Additional Materials (designed by SMART Board users, but can be adapted to Promethean Activ Software)

SMART Board templates for Language Arts, Math, Music, Science and Health, Social Studies, ESL

http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm

Geometry http://www.geocities.com/corderkh/smartboard_geometry.html

Provides links to interactive web sites, and SMART Board templates

http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/etipslesson1.html

Search for SMART Notebooks by topic 

http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/soltechintegration.htm 

http://www.community.teqsmart.org/download.php

http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/

 Additional sites that have resources for the SMART Board

http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elementary/kscience.htm

http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard

http://www.paulysplayhouse.com/paulys_playhouse/games/ol_mcpaulys.html

 

 

10 Tips for Managing the Use of the Smartboard

Amber Price, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

The Smartboard is a wonderful tool to use with your students. It is great for whole group, guided practice, and independent practice exercises. You can also use the Smartboard as a center activity. After teaching a workshop on “Getting to Know the Smartboard” my teachers had one main concern: How do I manage the rest of the class while there is only one student who is interacting with the Smartboard at the front of the room? I threw this question back at my teachers  and asked them how they would handle the management issue. Here are some of their tips:

1. Have the students write examples on their own worksheet that is setup like the Smartboard template. For example, if you are doing a Venn

Diagram on the Smartboard, the students should be writing answers in their own Venn Diagram at their desks.

2. Create pre-made answers on pieces of paper that they can place in their own Venn Diagrams at their seats (using paper, cut-and-paste).

3. At our schools, the teachers have plastic rings that can be hooked together to make a Venn Diagram. The students could use these at their

seats for more of a guided practice activity.

4. Provide the students sitting at their seats or in the circle with an activity that corresponds with the activity currently taking place on the board. For example, I have had preschool students singing a song (and learning it) while the student at the board did an interactive flannel board activity. I played a music cd in the background with the music from Hickory, Dickory Dock. The students sitting in the circle sang while the helper moved the mouse up and down the clock on the Smartboard.

5. Give students answers or questions on slips of paper, allowing them to take turns coming up to the Smartboard. This will keep them focus on the lesson as they wait for their turn to come. (Reminds me of the zip-around games) For example, each student is given a part of a plant to label. When it is time for that part to be labeled, the student comes up to the Smartboard and either writes the name of the part or clicks and drags the name of the part.

6. Create your own whiteboards for students to use at their desks with laminated white poster board, or have students use individual dry erase boards at their seats. Provide the template for the students to place on top of their “whiteboard.”

Managing the Use of the Smartboard ~ Amber Price ~ 2006

7. Slide in some heavy paper (or a hard copy of the template) into a three ring binder page protector. Students use dry erase markers to write on their pages.

8. Create team activities for use with the Smartboard. Split the class into two teams and let the students take turns from each team to go up to the Smartboard and answer questions (such as math problems).

9. Create a classroom job of “Presenter” or “Vanna” in which a student is responsible for helping with the Smartboard presentations for the week (for example, have that student help move the slides in a Powerpoint from one to the next.)

 

What is interactive?  Is this better than a chalkboard?

Are the student interacting with the technology or the learning concepts?

Choices+Feedback+Challenge= Interactive

From Jason De Nys