Post Smartboard Lessons for your Students

October 7, 2009

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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Game Show Jingles in Smartboard

October 7, 2009

I just thought you would enjoy this Smartboard Document that contains the sounds of a few of my favorite gameshows including: Jeopardy, Family Fued, The Price is Right, and others.   I use these sounds sometimes when I give a question to the class and are having them work with a partner to solve it.  It is nice background music.  Here is the link to the download or just go to the Resources Page.

Direct download :   If you are having problems with the download see the directions on the Resource page.  http://smartboard.fatcow.com/resources/notebookandpdfdocuments/gameshow%20jingles%20for%20smartboard.notebook

 

I pulled the MP3 sounds from this site.  http://www.audiomicro.com/game-show-sound-effects/page-1#

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Welcome to our new website (blog)

July 25, 2009

Welcome Everyone,

Thanks for checking out our new website.   There are a couple of new things with this website.  First of all, you can comment.  I hope you will take some time to do so.  We would really love to hear from you.  Secondly, you will notice there are a few of new resources under the resources page.  The largest resource is the Teacher Template Gallery Collection File.  This is a collection of templates that are ready for you to use.  Just download it and you can have ready to fill in interactive lessons very quickly.  Once downloaded, you just have to look in your gallery and then “my content”.   Lastly, you will see the teaching templates FLASH gallery collection file in the resources.  I have just gone through the Smartboard’s Lesson Activity Toolkit and made a collection of the flash activities.  We will refer to many of these in our podcasts.

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My family has been awesome to me while I have had ACL knee surgery.  They have been true servants.  Thank you Linda, Kelly, Jamie, and Carl.  You are the best.  Even with the surgery, you have helped make my summer great. 

I know Scott is now on vacation with his family.  Hopefully you are also enjoying the summer.

We look forward to podcasting as soon as school starts.

Blessings,

Dave

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