how to create an interactive smart board activity

SMART Board activities and student engagement

© 2014 Vanessa Rodgick Reprinted with permission.

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Collaborative technology and student achievement

Lesson Activity Toolkit

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SB software contains many interactive activities and games!

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Let’s play a game!

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Design an activity for your unique students’ needs.

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Open SB Notebook software

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Open Gallery. Open Lesson Activity Toolkit.

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Click on Activities.

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Or, if your SM is right-side oriented…

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Click on Activities

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Drag the activity onto your slide and click edit.

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Type in your column labels.

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Add labels (items to be sorted)

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Sort and check to see if it works!

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Break into table groups!

• What did you see?• How can a SB activity increase student

engagement?• What are your fears about this technology?

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Take out your SMART phones, tablets, laptops, etc. and go to www.vot.rs

Enter the code, and answer the question. The results will be anonymous, but will be shown as a graph to the class on

the interactive SMART Board.

Question 1

Code: 40 31 33

Question 2

Code: 47 46 97

Take a break! Be back by 2:15

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ReferencesDreamstime. (2014). Fish Jumping [image]. Retrieved from

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-gold-fish-jumping-to-empty-bowl-image17323392

Focus Pointe Global (FPG). (2014). Group Discussion [image]. Retrieved from http://www.focuspointeglobal.com/blog/bid/136582/Focus-Group-Participation-Encouraging-Discussion

Howe, K. (2012). Type of Learner [image]. Retrieved from http://how2educate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/learning-styles.jpg

Inform Local. (2012). Technology [image]. Retrieved from http://informlocal.com/

SMARTtech. (2014a). Touch Gestures [Image]. Retrieved from http://smarttech.com/885ix

SMARTtech. (2014b).Lesson Activity Toolkit [Image] and Activities and games [Image]. Retrieved from http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/services/quickreferences/pdf/english/lat_qrg.pdf

SMARTtech. (2014c) SMART notebook software [image]. Retrieved from http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/trainingcenter/flash/tutorials/6_thelessonacttoolkit/lessonacttoolkit.htm

Why Are People Left Handed. (2014). Left vs. right [image]. Retrieved from http://whyarepeoplelefthanded.com/