Interactive+Whiteboards

Interactive whiteboards, such as the SMARTBoard and Mimio, as well as the interactive projectors allow teachers to deliver interactive lessons. Students can physically interact with the material by moving items on the board. The SMART Notebook gallery contains many images and interactives that can easily be inserted for use with the SMARTBoard.

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SMART Exchange

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**Smart Exchange has a wealth of lesson plans and activities already made and ready to use! I saved several of these activities to my global folder - back to school icebreakers, Dr. Seuss Jeopardy, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, sequencing, homophones, etc. My students love to use the SmartBoard during library time. I do not always have the time to develop new SmartBoard lessons - so this site is a real timesaver! I try to tie in with SOL objectives that are being taught in the classroom. This site will provide me with the information to write and implement my lesson plans! Susie D.**


 * Using an interactive whiteboard will bring a new level of learning and interaction for the students! I plan to use the whiteboard more this year, now that I have a better of how to use the basic tools. Additionally, I am very excited to learn about SMART Exchange and the wealth of resources available, so that the "wheel" doesn't have to be reinvented again! The ability to download a template and then adjust it as I wish is wonderful! Did I mention that it is FREE?!!! I plan to use this website in the classroom a lot, correlating templates with SOL Strands. I would like to be able to post these templates, for the 5th grade Science Strand in the Teach Clearing House. BBontrager**

I'm glad to see that there are lots of tools and pre-made lessons to modify for use in my classroom... Especially the interactive capabilities! A Coltrane

The lesson activity tool kit offers a wealth of ready-made lesson templates such as word sorts, picture sorts, matching, etc. The nice thing is that they can be easily manipulated to incorporate your content information. Some of these templates can also be used as assessments. Good stuff! D. Kiley

I agree that the lesson activity tool kit is amazing. If you need some help in figuring out what all of the pre made activities can do, go to gallery/lesson activity tool kit/examples/activities and it has examples of the flash activites there. It is great to have as a way to spark new ways of using the activities! ~Toni

I'm looking forward to using the smart response system in my classroom. I'm planning to review vocab and questions from the content curriculum frameworks. -KByler

I am excited to try some of the activities in the smart board notebook. I love all the tools and how they can be edited to go along exactly with what I am teaching. Michele Armstrong

It was good to have time to explore the teacher toolkit. I want to make activities to go along with reading and content. Cathy Byrne