I just wanted to share with you the work that Ed Watson, a math teacher at Naperville Central High School, is doing with his classes. He is posting all his completed Smartboard Lessons online through Google Sites. Basically, at the end of the lesson Ed will export his Smartboard document as a PDF. A PDF is a digital version of the Smartboard slides and is universal so that anyone can read it. (In Smartboard click on File, then Export, and then PDF and save it to a location on your computer) After he makes it a PDF he uploads it to his website on Google Sites. (Ask the tech person at your school to help you upload PDF’s) Google sites is a very easy to learn and is FREE. If you have a Google account, then you already have access Google Sites. Ed just got an email yesterday from a student who has mono and was expressing his appreciation for being able to go online and keep up to date with what happens in class. Ed says that he uploads the PDF’s before the students get home from school each day and it only takes him a couple of minutes to do. Here is the link to Ed’s Site to check it out and see it for yourself. http://sites.google.com/site/honorsprecalculussite/home
Here is a picture of what the students see at Ed Watson’s Site
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I did this last year for my students and love the idea. This year I upload the entire smartboard lesson each day directly onto my wiki page so that students can download and interact with it the same way they do in class. Of course, this necessitates having the notebook software on their computer but anyone can have the student version. It’s great for students who are absent but also for review for my students.
Great idea. I teach Year 6 (age 10-11) in a digital setting in Primary School. I export the smart lessons as PDF or Powerpoint depending on what we are doing, then save in the classroom curriculum folder eg; maths. The students then copy the file into their personal curriculum folder and continue to work on it or for followup or revision. Tthat way the Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are always visible to them. I dream of the day when at least 50% of my students have internet access at home.