Assignment 2: SMART Board Presentation

     To find the lesson from my presentation, go to the Instructional Technology Website and scroll down to the math section. Click on the lesson that says "Candy Graphs" and the SMART Board lesson will open with the SMART Notebook feature.

     During my presentation, I will use these two features: (Both of these features can be placed in the side toolbar for quick and easy access).

• Page recording: This can be useful for students that are working at a slower pace. The lesson can be played back for them at any time. You can also save the recorded markings from your lesson as a video. This is helpful because it can be sent home with parents or posted on a classroom blog for extra help.
• Highlighter: This allows you to highlight words or pictures on the screen. You can change both the color and the thickness of the highlighter.

NETS for Students:

• Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
• Students create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
• Students may record their work on the SMART Board, say from a math lesson on long division. They can they save it as a video to publish to their blog as an original piece of work.
• Students apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
• Students can apply their knowledge of math to create graphs using the SMART Board and record and highlight their efforts.
• Students can use their thinking to highlight main ideas in a paragraph on the SMART Board. This enables other students to recognize the main points more quickly and clearly, and it also involves student interaction.

NETS for Teachers:

• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporationg contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS-S.
• Teachers customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
• Many students may not learn best in whole class or group interaction. Thus, the playback method allows for teachers to meet the needs of students with different learning styles.
• The highlighter tool helps students to see exactly what the teacher is wanting to emphasize in the lesson activity on the SMART Board.
• Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
• The digital tool of page recording allows teachers to involve the students in creative invention through video playbacks of their own work.

     The interactive white board can improve student learning in my future classroom by giving slower-paced students a chance to understand ideas and concepts through a step-by-step recording of the lesson. I most noticed the importance of this feature while giving a Monart lesson in the Visual Arts Methods class. The page recording really helped for students that could not keep up with the pace of the picture I was demonstrating. It was also very helpful for students that were absent. A recording of the lesson on the interactive board can be saved and emailed to (or posted on a classroom blog) parents and the absent student in order to engage in understanding of the missed content.