So after a long week of trying to make the perfect Promethean Board set up and another long week of rest on Spring Break (praise the good God in Heaven), I think I have gotten a ton of great information on Interactive White Boards!
This week we have been working frantically to create our own page on ActiveInspire to teach a lesson based on a curriculum standard. I really enjoyed that this project is real life. I will be able to use this for my future classroom! Granted it needs to be 2nd grade and I will have to have an IWB. ah. details! But I really enjoyed being able to see myself using it to teach as I was creating it. I learned several new tricks for interactivity with the board. We learned how to create tables and pull-to-reveal as well as many other great forms of interactivity. When we were learning them on Tuesday I thought to myself "do teachers actually use these types of interactivity in their classrooms?" Prior to this I had only seen it used to write on and model handwriting and math problems.
I wrote a little last week about my prior knowledge on Smart Boards and how I have seen them used in the classroom. So, I wanted to give you a little update about something else wonderful I saw this week! At the school I have been shadowing at the Kindergarten teacher that I was observing used one of the types of interactivity! I had even been looking at this same design in the Promethean Board website (http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/). It was a cool moment of connecting what we learn in our classes to what is happening in the actual elementary classroom.
This week we have been working frantically to create our own page on ActiveInspire to teach a lesson based on a curriculum standard. I really enjoyed that this project is real life. I will be able to use this for my future classroom! Granted it needs to be 2nd grade and I will have to have an IWB. ah. details! But I really enjoyed being able to see myself using it to teach as I was creating it. I learned several new tricks for interactivity with the board. We learned how to create tables and pull-to-reveal as well as many other great forms of interactivity. When we were learning them on Tuesday I thought to myself "do teachers actually use these types of interactivity in their classrooms?" Prior to this I had only seen it used to write on and model handwriting and math problems.
I wrote a little last week about my prior knowledge on Smart Boards and how I have seen them used in the classroom. So, I wanted to give you a little update about something else wonderful I saw this week! At the school I have been shadowing at the Kindergarten teacher that I was observing used one of the types of interactivity! I had even been looking at this same design in the Promethean Board website (http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/). It was a cool moment of connecting what we learn in our classes to what is happening in the actual elementary classroom.
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