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Welcome to 'SMART Boards in the English Classroom' Tania Meldrum

AgendaIntroductionHow the technology worksBenefitsFeature OverviewActual Lesson ExcerptsHow to Build a Lesson & TipsSaving Formats & TipsResources & TrainingVisits and Personal HelpPlay TimeTrouble Shooting (if interested)

Note: There is a lot in here. We may not cover it all.

votes on what people want to see

PDF of this saved at meldrumenglish1d.wikispaces.com

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Introduction(a brief bit about me and fact finding about you) ­ 2 years, last Jan, end of May, July, Sept

How many of you have ever seen a Smart Board in use?How many have touched one?Used one for lessons or done some training with one?

Please come up and write your name and school on the board.

Pat Holloway

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How the technology works

­ Your finger is your mouse ­ everything you can do at your desk, you can do at the board

­ Computer is connected to the board and to the projector

­ Questions?

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Benefits / Purpose

­ saves your brilliant lessons ­ I write more with the SMART board than ever before­ keeps you focused and on track

­ more engagement ­ especially from the techies in your classes­ more interactive learning ­ demonstrator from SMART­ more visual learning ­ can let students just watch and absorb instead of taking

notes if applicable

­ lets you make the lessons available for students or colleagues

­ easy to change/adjust (e.g. students who have black/white contrast issues)

­ supply teachers ­ you control the lesson content­ can see what the teacher does with the lesson­ designate a student helper & show lesson the day before

­ parent buy­in­ mini­timetable nights are a snap and parents are enthralled.

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Feature Overview

­ Various toolbars­ pointer, pen, highlighter, eraser, magic pen, lines, shapes, spotlight

­ Use with other programs­ Notebook is invasive and can work with other technologies­ can write on a

Word document, PowerPoint slide show, movie image, web page, etc.

­ can save a snapshot of the written on image

­ Gallery ­ timer­ calendar pages­ poetry­ grammar­ games

Write my name ­ turn to text

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Actual Lesson Excerpts ­ The Highlight Reel (advisory ­ not all my lessons are this complex!)

Grade 9 ­ daily agendas with homework (magic pen) [1D 09 Dec 4­18], ­ media ­ lost with USB [1D wiki media page for pdf], ­ short stories [wiki short fiction ­ "Borders" and "Thank you, Ma'am" pdf],

­ Internet [grammar], ­ google earth, wikis, venn diagrams [demonstrate], ­ seating plans [seating 208 Shakespeare per D],­ project sign ups [summative signups per D], ­ Twelfth Night ppt, ­ fun interactive class­starters [fridgemagnets (preselect letters), crossword in essayworkshop lesson 7], ­ student­teacher essay unit [EssayWorkshop­Anatomy­Lesson1 original & lesson 7], ­ Shakespeare Intro [Jessica's intro lesson]

Grade 12 ­ Gwen's slides [rhetorical devices]

Grade 12 EWC ­ intertextuality assignment, ­ Folding Laundry C.C.A., ­ M2 Article, ­ poetry analysis

http://www.chompchomp.com/

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December 9, 2009

Book Return ­ Please bring your novel (and Crossroads if you still have one) to class. Do not just leave it on my desk: wait for me to call you up.

Essays ­ any more to come in?

Writing Prompt ­ Use this time to work on your Quotation Analysis Assignment­ this was given out Monday

Sign up for Summative presentations ­ period C

Act I, scene iii

Homework: Chronologue for I, iii; Act Quotations for first three quotations

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December 11, 2009

Book Return Writing Prompt ­ think about the play as far as we have read

­ Choose four lines. 1. one that has beauty in it2. a line with a good joke3. a line that sounds modern4. a line that appeals to you

­ Write down the act, scene, and line numbers­ Write down what you think of the line.

Homework Check: ­ Get out your Quotation Analysis Assignment­ I am checking that you have this done

Act I, scene iii ­ continued 5 min to finish up the actions­ put your names on your script, then hand in­ I'll give you a different group's script

­ read through it and see if you can figure out what the actors are doing

Work on your summative ­ Pourquoi Rough due Dec 17th

Homework: Write most of the rough draft of your Pourquoi Tale

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Time Line

"Borders" Thomas King ­ told in non­chronological order

Laetitia talks of leaving Laetita goes to U.S.A.

Narrator & Mother go to visitTurned back at American Border

Turned back at Canadian Border Spend the night in car

Vocabulary Match Up ­ great starter exercise ­ relatively stress­free way for students to learn the board­ lock the vocab words in, then type the answers in separately so they move freely

Inept ­

Apt ­

Proficient ­

the appropriate use or thing

clumsy or not good/practised at somethinggood at something

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Venn Diagram

Jean Louise Jeremy

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Firstname

English 1D­05 Period C

Front

Teacher

Amanda

Lesley Zander

Scott

Medina Josephine Shawn

Eric

Heather

Ian

Zoe

AlecMontell

Hannah Mackenzie Aiden

Aween

Tessa Zach V

Sophia

Brandon

Anik

Julia

Emmett

Stephen

Farah

Sloan

Sam

AdamBen C

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Summative Story Telling Presentations with Media Component

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January 20th is the overflow day for those presentations that are legitimately delayed.

Presentations that are missed for non­legitimate reasons will be made up at lunch or after school.

= email= not submitted

I was absent

= rescheduled

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Writing Prompt

Make as many words as you can with the following letters.

You may only use a letter once in a word if it appears once on the board.

Also, guess what all the words come up with. Hint #1: Who am I?

You win a prize if:

­ you get the most words.­ you get the longest word.­ you get what all the words spell (Special Prize ­ I will bring it Monday).

Hint #2: I was born in the late 1500s.

Hint #3: I am most famous for my Tragedies and Comedies.

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Words you came up with

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Questions on "Why Speed Matters"from an article by Wolfgang Sachs

20 marks

(4 marks) Of the twenty (20) marks for this section, four (4) marks are awarded for organization, clarity, and

writing in Standard English.

(2 marks) 1. In your own words, state the author's thesis.

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Tania Mel down,

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How to Build a Lesson & Tips

Easy start ­ Just write or type up your board notes ­ no special features used­ at the end of the lesson, save the file, as opposed to erasing board

Add features and interactivity as you get comfortableBig Tip: Back Up Your Brilliance! (+cautionary tale)

Time sink (like a purse's contents, will expand to fill space available)

Build in easy/low­stress ways for students to try the board­ sign name, vocab match, put name on seating plan, sign up for a project, move an object on infinite cloner, etc.

(grade 12s were afraid to seem inept)

Student Use ­ one person at the board at a time­ a line up about five people deep is efficient (grade 9 experience)

Font Sizes ­ good range 20 ­ 25ish ­ check from all angles of the room

Amount of text on slide ­ treat like a ppt ­ too much is overwhelming

Colour Use ­ too much is distracting­ ask students if anyone is colour­blind

Cloning and Moving Pages within and between files ­ you can copy and paste whole pages or drag and drop

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Saving Formats and Tips I suggest ­ labeling your files carefully so you can find what you're looking for­ saving separate versions (a master and copies)­ saving your daily agenda separately from your teaching content ­ using different folders for different units­ putting the course code (12U, EWC, 1D, etc.) as part of name­ Saving the PDF of the file

­ open Notebook file ­ in File menu choose Export ­ choose PDF ­ choose full page format

­ type a useful namehttp://smarttech.com/

Resources & training ­ on­line ­ There's lots available

­ SMART technologies has live, on­line training for free­ TeacherTube and YouTube­ SMART board Ning­ board training

Visits and Personal Help­ if you want to come and visit me at Nepean, I'm happy to see you­ this semester I have EWC in period 1 with the SMART board­ I have the afternoon off, but no SMART board to use for demos

­ can still build lessons without the board­ I would be willing to do the occasional visit to another school ­ could see me in the fall when I'm full time, and likely using the board for

more of my classes.

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Play time (after I save any changes)

Come up and try creating somethinge.g. Venn DiagramTableInfinite clonerYour name in funky fontChange the background colour

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Trouble Shooting ­ useful tips for student­helpers & supply teachers too

Green light / red light­ check connection

Wonky pen line­ realign the board

'Les triangles aux doigts' ­ story ­ can't find the pointer­ this may happen when in other programs too­ touch the pointer icon on one of the toolbars

Can't pick up an object on board­ object may be hidden under another ­ move the other one

Pen mismatch­ put the pens back in correct tray compartment

Can't close a window ­ reduce size, or use mouse at computer (corner blind spot)

When in doubt, ask a student: they've likely seen the problem before.