As the end of the year approaches teachers need to think about getting ready for summer. Part of this is going through and cleaning their classroom. Students often help teachers by cleaning desks and chalkboards. But when it comes to your SMART board, you don’t want to have any damage to your board, so here are four cleaning options to avoid to preserve your board. Do not use: Bleach – or anything with bleach added Continue…
One of the things I’ve always loved about SMART Boards is that you don’t need a remote to use the system. They all have a power button and an input button and a volume knob attached to the system, mounted permanently, impossible to lose. Unfortunately, as you step up into more complex systems, the type that might be installed in a conference room or multi-purpose room, the components are no longer mounted all together on Continue…
The end of the school year has several implications for educators. One of the most important is end of level testing. Many districts have already started and perhaps even finished testing their students. For those about to begin this high-stakes activity, do you have a plan to review the concepts you’ve worked so hard to teach all year? Wouldn’t it be nice (don’t start singing that Beach Boys song just yet) if there were lessons Continue…
You’ve seen Notebook 11, but did you know that SMART has a dramatically simplified Whiteboarding program for business users? It’s called Meeting Pro, and version 3.0 was just released at the beginning of April. Here are 3.0 reasons it can improve collaboration in your office. 1.0) The primary function of Meeting Pro is to provide touch interaction with your desktop on a SMART interactive whiteboard. Most of the information you need to share in a Continue…
Monday, April 23rd will be the release of Smart Notebook 11. You can download it by going to http://www.smarttech.com/downloads. This new release will have many new features including: a completely redesigned toolbar a new activity builder integrated web browser easier to add sound a crayon new grouping gesture more effective fill tool core curriculum linking in response pictures in Response VE We are in the process of designing training around this new version and it Continue…
During my years in the U.S. Air Force, I became intimately familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint. PowerPoint presentations had been the standard for years and very little had changed in how information was being presented, especially over the last few decades. Beginning with flip charts, where the data was drawn or written, things advanced to slide projectors with remote slide advance. With the evolution of computers and laptops, you would have expected dramatic and new Continue…
One of the elementary schools in my neighborhood is starting a dual immersion spanish program. For those not familiar with the strategy, the first half of the day is spent in one language and the second half of the day is spent in the other. The classroom is supposed to have everything posted in each language. Doors, windows, cupboards and supplies all need to be labeled. The technology that students interface with can contribute to Continue…
It’s common to have multiple audio output devices attached to your computer. There is an output jack, built-in speakers if you have a laptop, and frequently USB devices of all shapes and sizes to produce sound. Currently, on Windows or Mac OS X, changing between these involves digging into settings menus and clicking dropdown boxes. It is far from automatic. In fact, it’s so cumbersome that devices are rarely changed, and using new ones can Continue…
Nick wrote a great post last week about noise in the classroom. I am going to follow that up this week with some practical applications for audio reinforcement in the classroom. As a teacher I had an audio system in my classroom, and in Utah many of the classrooms have audio systems. One of the downsides of the audio systems is that most teachers either didn’t use the audio system because they thought their voice Continue…
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