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Algebra Tiles

We cover virtual algebra tiles in this weeks podcast. Students will get to the smartboard and do math.  Also, we have an awesome random student generator that was given to us by Sue Palmberg, one of our listeners. You won’t want to miss this one. Please join us for this video podcast at iTunes.

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Finish the Chart

In this week’s podcast we look at a lesson structure called “Finish the Chart”.  There a few different math examples, however, they can easily be adapted to any subject area.  The tip of the day is using the Oops button which is actually the undo button.  We finish with a tutorial on how to Print Capture something.

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Sentence Order
In this episode hosts Scott Miller and Dave Sladkey look into the lesson structure  Let’s get some order here please!”  This is where we create different text boxes and can order them in different ways.  Our tip of the day is customizing the toolbar. Our tutorial is how importing a graph from the virtual TI-84 Calculator.

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Slide it Over

In this episode hosts Scott Miller and Dave Sladkey look into  Slide it Overs’.  This is where a question slides over and the answer gets revealed.  There is a math slide over and a foreign language slide over.  The tutorial is how to make a slide over.  The tip today is changing pen styles.

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Lesson Template F

Hosts Scott Miller and David Sladkey discuss the lesson structure called “I burned my lesson plan again”.  This sturcture is where pieces of the lesson are missing (burnt) and the students have to figure out (deduce) what the pieces actually were.  The smartboard tip is changing views in smartboard. The tutorial is using the freehand screen capture tool.

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Lesson Template E

Hosts Scott Miller and David Sladkey of Naperville Central High School in IL talk about a lesson involving Filling in the Missing Pieces.  This lesson structure shows how you can give a simple definition in notebook and still engage students minds. The tip of the day deals with making regular shapes in smartboard like a perfect circle, or hexegon or any shape.  Also described in this episode is a activity that you can have your students do when in the middle of class to get their brains and bodies moving a little bit called rocks, paper, scissors, Math.  Lastly we cover how to make a brain based activity in powerpoint.  We export a smartboard document to powerpoint and then change some settings in powerpoint to make it a timed activity.

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Lesson Template D

Hosts Scott Miller and David Sladkey explain the lesson idea of a 3 by 3 puzzle.? They also go through how to use the control button to select and group items.? Lastly they go through step by step how to export a notebook document to powerpoint.

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Memory Game

In this episode hosts Scott Miller and Dave Sladkey explore how to use the memory game in class.  They show an example of equivalent fractions, but this game can be used for a variety of uses. In today’s tutorial we show how to make a new folder in the gallery.  Then once you have made a new folder, you can put different items in the gallery for future use.

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Lesson Template B

This episode Scott and Dave look into the lesson structure of Characteristic Sorting. This gives students the opportunity to show what they know, instead of what they don’t know.  We look into the infinite cloner and how it might be used in a math lesson.  We also discuss the use of the screen capture button.

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