General+Resources

flat =**Research**= [|Interactive Whiteboards and Learning] A SMART Technologies white paper research on the use of interactive whiteboards to promote social learning in classrooms.

[|One Page Overviews] Short one page overviews on different issues and highlights with interactive whiteboards.

[|Galileo Network: Effectively Integrating Technology in K-12 Education] This is an excellent, comprehensive resource with many classroom exemplars on how to plan for effective technology integration.

[|SMART Research Summaries] This site divides the information into two categories: anecdotal accounts and research studies. Areas include impacts to instruction, specific subject areas, special needs, and student perceptions.

[|Monster Exchange] This is a world-wide writing project in which students draw a monster and then they write about it in words. They exchange written descriptions with another student from another school via the Internet and they attempt to draw each other’s monsters from the written descriptions. Often the first pictures look nothing like the monsters and the students must look back at their original drawings to try and rewrite their words to more precisely describe the drawing.

=Tools and Resources=

[|Birmingham Whiteboard Resources] Click on the links at the top of the site to navigate. The collection includes elementary and secondary resources for literacy, math, science and additional subjects.

[|SMART Board Podcasts] Hundreds of great podcasts on incorporating the SMART Board. Many of the entries also contain help files and examples.

[|Intel Teaching Tools] Check out the visual ranking tool and showing evidence tool - very easy to use with the SMART Board.

[|Math Tools] A collection of Tools for use with different mathematical concepts

[|SmartBoard in the Classroom] Simple places to start for each grade.

[|Interactive Whiteboard Challenge] This is a challenge for educators with simple tasks to be completed and applied to your classroom learning. Take up the challenge! The first assignment is due September 15th!

[|Great site for reviewing hundreds of concepts in fun, "game" formats] This site allows you to select a concept you want to teach or review and gives the students an opportunity to play Hangman, Matching Games, Unscramble, etc. My students LOVE this site!

[|Google Search for SMART Lessons] This is a customized Google Search Engine that searches sites with interactive notebook lessons.

[|SMART Teach Wiki] Tons of great resources!!

= Teaching Ideas = [|SmartBoard in the Classroom] Simple places to start for each grade. Scroll to the "Workshops" section to view a list of great ways to incorporate the SmartBoard into your classroom activities.

WebTools4u2use This is a huge resource created by teacher librarians in an effort to provide professional development on Web 2.0 tools.

[|Teaching Integration Model] A guide of questions to guide your technology integration planning.

[|Beginner's Guide to Action Research] This site provides step by step diagrams and videos for each stage of the action research process.

[|Interactive SMARTBoard Web Sites] Assorted subjects and themed web sites that may be helpful.

[|Teachers Love SMART Board] This blog is updated daily with lots of great ideas for using the SMART Board shared by an educator who actually uses one in the classroom.

[|6/7/8 Websites] - This is a site with a variety of websites that I use in the classroom.

[|SMART Revolution Ning Community] This site is a community of people interested in using the SMART Board in new ways in their classrooms. Post questions or link up with other resources.

[|Heather Lamb's Delicious Bookmarks] Lots of links to great sites!!

[|SMARTBoard, Airliner and SMART Response Lessons] This site has mulitple lessons for every grade and subject area. Although it isn't Sasktachewan curriculum, there are many lessons that are adaptable for our curriculum. Docstoc Super awesome, *FREE* site that allows you to upload word docs and embed them into your blog (ie if you have a classroom blog). Just click on the document and user can save or print.

[|Interactive Whiteboard Lessons]: Different lessons, organized by grade, to use in the elementary classroom.

[|Scholastic Study Jams] This site contains a variety of math and science topics of study for Grades 3-8. Topics include plants, human body, scientific inquiry, as well as math topics including fractions, integers, alegbra, numbers, and more!

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