SMART+Engaging+Activities

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 * ====The [|**Lesson Activity Toolkit**]is automatically included in the download of the Notebook software, however in the case that it didn't install, click here for link to download.====
 * ** Teachers Love SMART Boards ** http://www.teacherslovesmartboards. com/

> WOW your students with engaging activities from Harvey's homepage which has a wealth of SMART lessons and activities for Math!
 * **Harvey's homepage** @http://harveyshomepage.com/Harveys_Homepage/Welcome.html

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 * ** Graphic Organizer Templates for SMARTboard **
 * **Interactive SMARTboard lessons** @http://rmtc.fsdb.k12.fl.us/content/interactivesites.html

Feedback from TATNALL Smartboard Users Conference: Compiled by CR teachers.

1. Use the plastic finger pointers! It’s so much easier for the kids to reach up high and move things!

2. In the Gallery: lesson activity toolkit: Anagrams: use as a center for vocab or spelling words. Sentence Arrange: use to sequence story events Fridge magnets: word center Text splitter! Allows to you type up a list and insert it into a notebook files as separate words. Fraction Maker. Use a pen to write the numerator and denominator. Once the text is recognized, click the arrow to display the editable fraction as an object on your Notebook page.

Web Resources for Notebook Files

3. Harvey’s Homepage –Smart Board Lessons in All Content Areas- this presentation was a Tatnall hit! http://harveyshomepage.com/Harveys_Homepage/Welcome.html To save notebook files to your documents, right click “Save Target As,” change the file name to whateveryouwant.notebook,(actually type in .notebook into the file name field). Also change the “save as file type” to “all.”

4. Rockingham School District Smart Board Database- Lessons for each Virginia Standard and two search engines to find Smart Lessons http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/smartboard.htm#lessons

5. Obe’s Smart Conference Presentations- Spice Up your Smart Notebook Files. Great Resources on his presentation! @http://www.quia.com/pages/ohostetter/tatnall

7. Smart Board Ning- ask questions and share resources. This is like a Facebook for Teachers who use SMART boards. Post a question and you will receive many reponses.@http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/

8. Teq Smart Free Resources @http://community.teqsmart.org/download.php

Other Web Resources

9. Animation Library- Free Animations for your Smart Notebook Files http://animationlibrary.com/

10. http://thinkfinity.org/

11. Screencast- Make a Screen Cast- USB headset required (Screen casts are short videos that feature what is going on on your computer screen with your voice and directions. Great for tutorials!) @http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

12. Any Video Converter- add United Streaming Videos into your Smart Board file. If you insert the video directly into your notebook file it must be in .flv form If you link in a video it must be in .avi form @http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ 13. Many presentations were about adding video and sound to notebook files. When MP3’s are inserted, you can click the speaker icon to pause and then click again to play beginning right where it was paused. In iTunes you can convert .wav files to .mp3’s. In Audacity, you can record sound and convert to MP3’s. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/