1st Edition
Getting the Most Out of Your Interactive Whiteboard A Practical Guide
Put your interactive whiteboard to immediate use with confidence and skill, and launch your classroom directly into the 21st-century! In this book, teacher and SMART-Certified Trainer Amy Buttner provides clear, practical steps for making the most of your interactive whiteboard, plus other multimedia tools and the web. You’ll learn how to design your own activities using SMART Notebook software, utilize the board for assessment purposes, connect with online resources, and more.
Use interactive whiteboards to enhance instruction and engage your students in a media-rich setting. With these strategies, you’ll maximize this and other revolutionary technologies, and ultimately help to raise classroom achievement.
Meet the Author
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Introduction
Purpose of the Book
Value of the Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom
A Note to the Teacher
1. Question and Explore
Getting Started
Idea 1: Pose a Question
Idea 2: Explore Using Internet Resources
2. Integrate Multiple Forms of Media
Idea 3: Use Images
Idea 4: Use Videos
3. Interact with Online Resources
Idea 5: Use Online Resources
4. Present and Model Material
Idea 7: Create Presentational Materials
Creating Different Types of Page Backgrounds
Basic Skills for Working with Text and Objects
Presenting a Lesson
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5. Provide Opportunities for Practice
Idea 8: Create Activities to Practice and Process
Create Opportunities for Active Students
Using the Interactive Whiteboard as a Learning Station
Using the Interactive Tools and Activities from the Lesson Activity Toolkit to Preview, Practice, and Review
Organizing and Synthesizing Information
6. Students Examine and Create
Idea 9: Students Examine Work
Idea 10: Students Present their Learning
Conclusion
References and Resources
Biography
Authored by Buttner, Amy