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= SMARTboards: K-8 =

1. Intro/Definition
A SMARTboard is a resource tool that can be used for education as well as business situations. Presented in 1991, it has been used all over the world. The basic definition of a SMARTboard is that it is a whiteboard that makes learning fun with different interaction tools. The board engages all students with all learning styles. As a teacher, you can reach the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners just with one simple tool, SMARTboard. The SMARTboard uses the image from the computer and sends it to the whiteboard or screen, and then the students and teachers will be able to start interacting.

There are many things you can do with the SMARTboard. It is made with the latest technology, but it is still very easy to use for all age levels. Not only is the SMARTboard used in a computer class for middle or high school students. The board can be used throughout all grade levels and all classroom subjects. The core classes of English, math, science, and social studies are not the only areas of study for this SMARTboard, but also in the elective classes like physical education, music, art, and more.

In the classrooms the SMARTboards can be used for brainstorming and taking notes. This can get the students ready to write a paper, go over what they read, make math problems more understandable, and much more. Also games such as jeopardy or bingo can be used and played on the screen to get the students ready for a test or more knowledgeable about a certain content area. Educational videos and online worksheets can be streamed onto the screen to engage the students further in a subject area. Also with any of the documents, a click and drag system can be used so the students can take turns using the SMARTboard. In addition, powerpoints work very well with students because of the extra color, sound, and animation that makes learning come to life.

2. History of the Smart Board
SMART boards were created in 1991 by the Canadian company SMART technologies. The first SMART board was designed to function as a large display screen. In 1992, Intel became an investor of the company after taking interest in the idea. A few years later in 1998, SMART released its information management software as well as the SMART Notebook 2.0. The following year, SMART board introduced the first plasma display. By 2001, SMART boards came out with different software programs including the SMART recorder. Flat-panel displays debuted in 2003. In 2005, the company released its wireless slate, a tablet PC that lets users manipulate and select on screen objects as well as create and save notes and launch applications. Two years later, they debuted the Senteo, an interactive response system. This system allows teachers to their students performance in the built in grade book. By 2009, SMART board lead the interactive whiteboard category with 61% of the United States annual share & 48% globally. Today more than 1.8 million SMART boards are installed and used in education, business, government and military settings worldwide.

3. Issues of the Smart Board
Some issues both teachers and students may come across when using SMART boards are: · Ensuring that the SMART Board is properly set-up prior to lessons. This will save valuable time that could be better spent in engaging instruction. · As with any form of technology, do not use the SMART Board as a substitute for good instruction but as a means to enhance good instruction. · Save individual and group work as records to show parents how students have progressed during the year. · Let students “play” with the SMART Board. This lets students become familiar with the resource and makes it less of a distraction during lessons. · Make sure that the use of the SMART Board is truly enhancing for a given lesson plan. If the same lesson can be presented effectively and engagingly without the use of the interactive board – do that instead.

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4. How to incorporate the Smart Board into different classrooms
A SMARTboard can be incorporated in to any classroom, from mathematics to history to physical education, and be used in a variety of ways. In general in the elementary classroom it can be used for:

 1. KWL/Brainstorming. "KWL charts are a beneficial way to assess throughout a lesson or unit. Use KWL charts  on the SMART Board to revisit throughout learning. Text can be typed or items can be  written using the SMART Board pens."  2. Graphic organizers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Having large and colorful visuals will help students categorize and retain information as <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> well as develop study skills. Students can participate in creating webs around content <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> therefore making their own connections about the learned objectives. (Ex: patterns, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> relationships, assessment, etc.)" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 3. Use it with Kidspiration or Inspiration. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Develop main idea organizers with your students using images and text within the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> graphic organizer and outline tools. Draw, type, and create together on the board. The <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> board is interactive with any application." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 4. Teach editing skills using editing/proofreading marks. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Students use Smart Board pens to learn editing marks and correct text. Sharing is much <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> easier on the SMART Board, and everyone can review errors." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 5. Use highlighter tool. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Use a digital highlighter to focus on particular skills, parts of speech, or important text. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Various colors are available for color-coding." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 6. Erase and Reveal-Promotes Higher Level Thinking. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Allow children to think about answers hidden on the board. Students then interact with <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> the board and reveal correct answer." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 7. Use Gallery Tools. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Enjoy the built-in Gallery tools to create story maps, diagrams, pictures, and offer various <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> additional resources for your students." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 8. Use pictures. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Insert a picture into Notebook. A picture truly is worth a thousand words. Use it as a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> story starter, allow students to infer what is happening, or draw conclusions from the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> picture." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 9. Teach students how to navigate the Internet. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"The SMART Board provides an excellent format for teaching Internet navigation. The <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> desktop is projected and easily seen by the whole class, and the index finger becomes the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">'mouse'.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 10. Interactive maps to learn about our world and learn navigation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Students learn and practice map skills using interactive websites such as Brainpop, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> National Geographic, and Maps4kids." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 11. Interactive math activities. (clocks, fractions, place value, dice, protractor, spinners, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> number line, tangrams, number lines, symmetry, etc.) [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Use the Gallery in the SMART Notebook software to create interactive lessons that allow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> animated features to be utilized during math. Children learn to love math as they work <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> with interactive protractors, spinners, clocks, and other tools. Watch dice roll on the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> board by a simple touch!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 12. Word Study Activity. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Weekly word sorts are developed within the SMART Notebook software. Students are <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> able to sort words on the board under the correct category." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 13. Teach steps to a math problem. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Ways to solve math problems are broken down one step at a time. Problem solving <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> becomes interactive and provides a tactile, bodily/kinesthetic experience." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 14. Use as a Math Station. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Small groups of students have independent, hands-on practice using strategies/algorithms <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> already taught while the teacher works with other groups of students. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 15. Reinforce skills by using online interactive websites." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Utilize the SMART Board and Internet as a station during center time. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> (Ex: www.educationcity.com) "You can also explore the world using online websites and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> virtual field trips." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 16. Save Notebook for future lessons. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Save the day’s Notebook file for the continuation of future lessons, to revisit a KWL <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> chart, or to allow absent students access to the previous day’s class notes." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 17. Share presentations created by student or teacher. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Allow students to share writing projects to the class. Example applications include Print <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Shop, Kid Pix, and iMovie." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">18. Use Power Point for presentations and take notes directly in the presentation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"SMART Boards can be used by students to represent their work/research. Interact with <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> your presentation and annotate slides for more powerful presentations. Storyboards for <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Power Point presentations can also be created." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 19. Create video files to teach a software application, a lesson, or as a review to be <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> posted to the server or web. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Create a video file while you talk through the day’s SMART Board lesson. It will record <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> all your actions including voice, writing, Internet visits, etc. using the ‘Record’ feature." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 20. Download streaming videos. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Import and save video files to be used during SMART lessons. Watch your classroom <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> come alive as you bring real-life examples to your students. Examples include Discovery <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Channel, National Geographic, YouTube, and TeacherTube." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 21. Do a review using multiple choice & Jeopardy game. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Use SMART Board tools to allow students to play interactive multiple choice games to <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> review content and make important connections. Engage students as they play Jeopardy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> to review concepts learned during a unit of study." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">(Orlando, Davis, & Mason p 1-2)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More specifically a SMARTboard can be used in a gym for physical education class. Students can use the SMARTboard to sort out the healthy and unhealthy food. The SMARTboard can also be used as a simple anatomy lesson on learning about the different body systems throughout their body. The students can also record the number of steps ran during a class period using a pedometer or they can record their heart rate using a hear rate monitor. Then they can compare and contrast with other class periods they had or how they compared with their classmates. This can get them motivated to get more active during class time.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Using SMART boards in the classroom is a great way to incorporate technology into lessons. In history lessons they can be used to construct timelines, compare time periods, people and civilizations, label maps and even take virtual field trips to historic sites. History can often be a dry and boring subject for children, but using a interactive approach through SMART board can help students become more engaged in the lesson.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">No matter what the subject, a SMARTboard has a variety of different uses. Even though there are pros and cons to using a SMARTboard, it can be used for any subject in any type of classroom.

5. Conclusion
Since its invention in 1991 SMART boards have rapidly become a popular form of technology used in classrooms all over the world.They are more than 1.8 million SMART boards produced and installed by SMART Technologies and with new improvements and features added every year it seems like this number will continue to grow rapidly in the years to come. Although, SMART boards are great technological advancement to classrooms. It is important for teachers not to use this is as the primary focus in a lesson but instead as a supplement. Students may begin to believe that is only there to “play” with and not benefit from it.There are many ways to effectively incorporate the use of SMART boards into lessons in all subject areas. With tons of features and applications teachers can use pictures, graphs, interactive math activities, videos and more as supplements to their lessons, all while keeping track of the students’ progress. Exposing children to such technologies early on is important in today’s world. Educational technologies should be a part of every of every classroom.

6. References
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fitzpatrick Seymour, K. (2010, January 8). Interactive Smartboard Definition. In eHow. Retrieved February 10, 2011, from []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Herman, S. (2009, October). SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards in the Elementary Classroom. In Connexions. Retrieved February 9, 2011, from http://cnx.org/content/m32328/latest/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Orlando, A., Davis, E., & Mason, S. (n.d.). 21 Ways to Integrate the SMART Board in the Elementary Classroom. Retrieved February 13, 2011, from http://fltechshare.pbworks.com/f/NJAET_Outline_SMARTBoard.pdf

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Price, A. (2006, August 1). Ten Ways to Get Smart With SMARTboard. In Tech & Learning. Retrieved February 10, 2011, from []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Springgay, J. (n.d.). What is the History of the SMART Board?. In eHow. Retrieved February 10, 2011, from http://www.ehow.com/facts_4915092_what-history-smart-board.html