During the class (Tech221) I shared with you why I thought using smart board and the smart toolkit was a useful tool for classroom teachers. I recently came across the following list put out by Vanessa Cassie, Jan. 2010 (http://blog.sharpsav.com ), where she very succinctly and much more elegantly then I can or did, outlines the usefulness of smart board as a classroom tool for every teacher.
1. Capture on the fly note: I will print notes for SPED students or those that have been absent, or with broken arms
2. Show a video: digital streaming has become the only way that I show video content anymore, especially in short clips
3. Model a skill or an experiment: using a ruler, a microscope, organizing an essay
4. Add a bit of magic: fading in and out, using the toolkit to add sparkle
5. Conduct the lesson from one locations: quickly jump between applications with touch screen: I don’t have to run back and forth to my computer to change screens
6. Provide good visuals that can be manipulated: pictures big enough for everyone in the classroom to see
7. Organize all the elements of your lesson in one place (add attachments and url’s), embed all of the pieces: I don’t have to try to remember where I put something that I know I want to use in the lesson
8. Page record the lesson for absent individuals or replay as needed
9. Just to operate in the same medium as the students. Interactively. Of course, the best is when the students are manipulating the board, playing review games or demonstrating something that they know
