Smartboards

The Smartboard!

The Mount Vernon School District has placed a focus and priority on math for the past few years. It is encouraging to find so many resources for the smartboard that provide learning objects and lesson plans for math (and other subjects).

www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveSitesMathSmartBoard.htm

Jeff has just received the final pieces of his Smartboard. He still needs some help, including Flash on his desktop. Our tech coach can get to that easily, but it's taken a lot of patience to get this far. Jeff is an outstanding first-year teacher and is already doing the research necessary to make the most of his smartboard. Jessica is also just getting started using her board. Both of these teachers have had 30-31 students in their classes all year. Jessica has 12 ELL students in her class. The board has great potential for these students, but also has been a challenge to approach with all the marking and meetings that multiply with larger classes. Jeff is open to new ideas and we have talked about all sorts of cutting edge stuff, such as using cell phones in the classroom. However, as a first year teacher with a large class it has been difficult to venture from the smartboard. During the time it took to install, we did a blogging project together and Jeff used my Flip camera for a project, but I didn't want to create projects that he really didn't have time for just because the smartboard was taking a long time to install completely.