How can you use your SMART Board wirelessly? I have been asked this by several teachers, so I thought I would make a video showing you how! This is true wireless, where the computer can be anywhere in the classroom. This allows you to sit anywhere in the classroom and use your computer with the SMART Board. As this video shows, there is a short delay between when you write and when you see your writing on the board, but overall it is great for those times Continue…
I remember when I was teaching I would sometimes turn off my projector towards the end of class and then I would have students come up and touch the board thinking that because there is no image on the board it must not be on. What they didn’t know is that even though the projector is off, the SMART Board is still plugged into my computer and still works to click on things. My answer Continue…
Data driven instruction is a hot topic in education right now. Sometimes it seems like it is more important to give a bunch of assessments and have a bunch of graphs than it is to teach students! But the real point behind this push is to help the teacher more efficiently measure and promote student learning. If we keep that in mind as we look at data everything make more sense. In the video below, Continue…
SMART has a new add-on for Notebook software called Extreme Collaboration that enables collaboration in the classroom by leveraging student devices that are web enabled. This video is a brief demonstration of what can be done with this new tool. Stay tuned and later will come a full tutorial on how to use this great tool to its full extent.
I have heard some tech people arguing back and forth about whether SMART Boards or iPads are more effective in the classroom. I have even heard of schools taking down interactive whiteboards after getting iPads and Apple TVs. Is this warranted? Which technology is more beneficial in the classroom, and how can we implement it effectively? I would like to explore these questions in this week’s post. Do iPads Replace SMART Boards? I frequently hear Continue…
Several teachers have requested a blog post on QR codes, so here it is: an easy definition of QR codes, how they can be used, and how you can use them with SMART Notebook and iPads. What are QR Codes? QR codes are quite simply two-dimensional bar codes that contain information. They are most often used to connect the real world with the digital world through mobile devices. The devices use their built-in camera to Continue…
One issue I have seen several teachers request help with recently has to do with using Power Point on the SMART board. What is happening on the newer version of Power Point (mostly on PowerPoint 2011 for Mac) is that when you start your slide show and your laptop is plugged into a projector, it changes your display setting from mirrored to extended. It does this so that you can have your laptop in front Continue…
SMART released an update to Notebook yesterday: Version 11 SP1 for both Windows and Mac. Typically SMART releases updates on the web a few weeks before your automatic software updater finds it. I usually prefer to download the new versions from the web once they come out. You are not required to uninstall the previous version to install the new one, but if you are having problems you may want to. This is especially important Continue…
Doing so much training and professional development throughout the state of Utah, I have learned a lot about how teachers learn to use technology. What really strikes me is that most of the technology training offered to teachers does not fit the best way for them to learn. What I have found is that teachers do better with smaller amounts of technical training conducted more frequently, and spread out over a longer period of time. Continue…
Some teachers are having this issue with the SMART 800 series multi-touch boards: when they upgrade their computer to Smart Notebook 11, the board doesn’t respond correctly: the pen will only work on a diagonal plane, or on the board it will appear the pen is being used instead of the finger (see this youtube video). What has happened is that when the teacher upgraded to Notebook 11 the firmware on the board was also Continue…
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