I have to be honest . . . the SMART Board made me pretty nervous at first. It's big . . . and intimidating . . . and intelligent . . . but I guess the key is that I just have to be SMARTer than the Board. And now, I love it!
It's great to have the opportunity to play around with it during class; there are so many different features that we have only begun to tap into. It's fun inventing and creating with so many other pre-teachers who are all kind of in the same boat as far as dreaming about ways to use it in the classroom.
At the high-school I'm observing at, I asked if SMART Boards were available for the use of the teachers. Currently, I was told that there are a few different SMART Boards mostly located in the science dept. and the technology/graphics dept. However, the school is currently under-going a lot of construction . . . they are constructing a complete new building, and hoping to place SMART Boards in every class-room! How exciting!!
So, as far as English/Lanuage Arts . . . I can use the Board for writing queues, grammar exercises, brain-storming ideas for papers, diagramming sentences, etc. And there are SO many games that I can use the SMART Board to form for the class as well!!
In Biology/Anatomy and Physiology, the sky's the LIMIT as far as all of the ways I could use it! I could project a map of the human body on it . . . different systems, and use the pens to highlight, circle, identify different areas or regions. I could project pictures of eco-systems, rock layers, oh . . . all sorts of different things . . . and use the SMART Board to ask my students to identify different things on the projected pictures. We could probably even make interactive tutorial videos!
And these are only a few of the grass-roots level ideas. I'm excited to continue learning more about the SMART Board so that I can cast even more vision as I identify various different functions that it serves. Yeah for SMART Boards!
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