smartboards | Imamother

ffbmom ↓

Sun, Aug 31 2008, 7:54 pm

Our school is in its second year of using smartboards. They've now put one in each grade, and I Love Them !!! I have yet to really learn to use them. Anyone else work with smartboards? What do you do with them?

octopus

Sun, Aug 31 2008, 9:24 pm

I've seen smartboards being used.

But it won't inherently make your lesson better. If the lesson is good- a smartboard enhances it. If it's boring...well, 'aint nuthin that's gonna help that.

Mimisinger

Sun, Aug 31 2008, 9:47 pm

Smartboards are great IF your IT person keeps them running. One glitch and they're down for the count.

What grade a subject do you teach? I can give ideas Smile

soldat ↓

Sun, Aug 31 2008, 9:51 pm

what subject/grade do you teach?
I use it in kindergarten at least twice a week,
either I make powerpoints
or I use it to make lists
I especially love the document camara, I just pop the story book under it and there is no more "Morah I can't see!"
but I must say that we have the most amazing tech person in our school

↑ ffbmom ↓

Mon, Sep 01 2008, 3:55 am

Mimisinger wrote:

Smartboards are great IF your IT person keeps them running. One glitch and they're down for the count.

What grade a subject do you teach? I can give ideas Smile

Third grade and thanks.

manhattanmom

Mon, Sep 01 2008, 11:51 am

I LOVE Smartboards!!
I love being able to just take your class (upper grades) online to "search" for answers together. Obviously, you (the teacher) should do the whole search beforehand...
There are also some great things you could do on a smartboard to make the material more accessible and easier to read for students with low vision.

↑ soldat ↓

Mon, Sep 01 2008, 11:56 am

for 3rd grade - you could really turn it into a center
you could make games where they need to fill in blanks, and have the words to the side, the kids just drag over the correct answer - you could also do matching games - the same idea.
you should obviasly use it as a multi media tool - download vidioes from the internet (chabad.org, itche kaduzie - parsha quiz) to inhance what your teaching.
use it as you teach as a regular white board, you can then print it off and make copies for all the students.
spend some time getting to know the smart notebook software, you could copy and paste pictures from the internet directly onto it, and then mark it all up.
ENJOY!

red sea ↓

Wed, Sep 24 2008, 2:22 pm

My friend had a demonstration at their childs classroom, they use it for gemara & science. They said it was awesome!

BennysMommy

Wed, Sep 24 2008, 2:35 pm

I have never heard of a smartboard until I opened this thread but it sounds like you can do amazing things with it! Good luck to whoever gets to use them!

Tila ↓

Mon, Nov 24 2008, 2:49 pm

Our school just got them. Incrediable!!! You can save a lesson and go back, etc... It is soooo clean. The kids LOVE it!!

↑ ffbmom

Mon, Nov 24 2008, 10:22 pm

How many did they get? Each room have them? It's the way of the future. Makes blackboards obsolete,

↑ Tila

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 3:45 pm

Our school is an elemetary and a high school. All the class rooms except for the preschoool got the smart boards. It was paid for by the parent's association. (we raised the bucks...the parents that is).

teachby ↓

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 9:30 pm

We got one recently in our school. So far it's for math and science. I'm part of a team investigating how to integrate technology into kodesh classes. Any ideas, anybody?

↑ red sea

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 9:44 pm

put the page of a sefer up (you just cant seem to not look along if your a student these days, no matter where you turn) , use the colored pens to mark it up, put sound effects to the words

↑ soldat

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 9:51 pm

see my above post
in our school, the kodesh teachers use the smart boards more then the general studies teachers do

ValleyMom

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 9:56 pm

WHERE do you people work?
Smartboards are so expensive!
My school does not have a single solitary smart board.
:-(

↑ teachby

Wed, Nov 26 2008, 10:23 pm

red sea wrote:

put the page of a sefer up (you just cant seem to not look along if your a student these days, no matter where you turn) , use the colored pens to mark it up, put sound effects to the words

How do you put the page up?

Toot

Wed, Dec 24 2008, 10:42 pm

I love my Smartboard!!

soldat, what's the document camera? Sounds like something I would use.

teachby, I have a printer/scanner/copier in my room hooked up to my computer, so I scan things and put them up on the smartboard.

Also, any worksheet that I have saved in Word that the kids work on at home or in class I put up on the board, and they can come up to the board and write in their own answers.

I found this Jeopardy template online, which is great - you use the template and write all your own questions (English or Hebrew). I've used it a couple of times for review games. I can't find the exact website that I got mine from, but google it, there are a bunch out there.