Thursday, December 11, 2008


With the creation of a SMART lab in room 130, I have become obsessed with SMARTboard resources. For those of you who have never used one, SMART Board interactive whiteboards were introduced in 1991. They have a touch-sensitive display which connects to a computer and digital projector to show the computer image. You can then control computer applications directly from the display, write notes in digital ink and save your work to share later-In otherwords, you are the cursor, pen, keyboard, etc. In classrooms( or the lab), students can interact and be actively involved in lessons.

One of my favorite BLOGS that I check daily is entitled "Teachers Love SMARTboards!" It is written by Jim Hollis, a math/computer science educator from Arizona. He has AMAZING resources!!
His blog is: http://smartboards.typepad.com/
He listed his favorite resources of the year at : http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/smartboard-web-resources-2008.html
Favorite websites are listed at:
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/smartboard-website-listin.html
The SMARTboard folks ahve their won resources @ http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities
Another great site is:
http://www.teacherled.com/
And if you GOOGLE search(see how everything ties together!!) SMARTBOARD resources, you will come up with lots more.

You have probably guessed by now that your quest for today is to find an interactive lesson--Mind you, it is easy to get "lost" and caught up in all of the great stuff that is out there.
Have fun!!! Forward the site/activity-- and I will share it with everyone on the QUEEEN GEEK BLOG!