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Be sure to check the SMART Resources page at the left. Use the custom Google search engine there to find specific SMART Notebook resources. Easy Steps to Get Going! SMART Board Basic #1 Remember to orient your board once a day, or more if either your board or projector are mobile. Simultaneously hold down both of the buttons on the pen tray. The default 9-point orientation screen is recommended by SMART, but you can make adjustments if you are so inclined. Click on the Smart Board Tools icon in your dock, and from the Open menu select Control Panel.Select Smart Hardware Settings, and from the drop down menu select Orientation/Alignment Settings. Have you discovered the amazing "magic pen" tool? It writes with disappearing ink! Make friends with your magic pen--you'll be glad you did! Do you remember your box of 64 Crayola crayons from grade school? The truth is that the color of the pen is your hand really doesn't have any significance at all. SMART Board Basic #4 SMART Board Basic #5

cool tools for schools iPadsELA - home Free Technology for Teachers It's an Interactive Whiteboard! It's a Doc Cam! It's... Apple TV! Over the holidays I asked Santa for an AppleTV and boy did that jolly old elf deliver. I had some networking issues to work out (see the end of this post for the issues and solution), but once that was taken care of, the magic began. This $99 device has become the all-in-one accessory for my iPad classroom. It has replaced my TV, my doc cam, and even my interactive whiteboard! How, you ask? AppleTV starring as... a TV! On the simplest level, the AppleTV can stream media. AppleTV starring as... a Doc Cam! Using the AppleTV's AirPlay Mirroring function, I can have any iPad in my classroom instantaneously mirrored - sound and all - to the screen. AppleTV starring as... an Interactive Whiteboard! When I first got my Promethean board, I was quite concerned about being anchored to it constantly. AppleTV and our Network In our district, many schools have two wireless systems: an enterprise system and a secondary system. Unfortunately neither will run the AppleTV.

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Sweet Search Free Pictures - FreeFoto.com Driving Innovation in K-12 « February 9, 2012 by cultureofyes I have to give this post my usual preface that these slides are part of the presentation I am giving on innovation in K-12, but only one part of the story. Today, I am part of an event hosted by Simon Fraser University, Targeting Technology for Maximum Student Benefit. Beyond this and going forward, there are a few key points I would like to emphasize as we look at my assumptions and thinking on what we should and shouldn’t be doing: Some assumptions for the next 5 years: Teachers and schools are status quo (sense of community/social-emotional learning)Learning, not technology, is the driverGood writing (and what we often call “the core” curriculum) still mattersComplex problems often have a simple solutionExternal inventions (like the iPad) will continue to impact what we do, and we have no control over this! What We Would Do: What We Wouldn’t Do: Distributive Learning, – we want all classes to be blended classes.

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